6 THE GHOST COMES BACK

CHAPTER 6 THE GHOST COMES BACK So, did you bring home any more lost ghosts?" Beckett asked as he met Kaz and Claire in the library entryway. Claire twisted the top off the bottle, and Kaz swam out and expanded to his normal size. Kaz's ghost dog and Claire's solid cat scampered over to greet them. Claire gave Thor's ears a quick scratch. "No," Kaz said glumly. He rubbed Cosmo's belly. "We need to talk about this case," Claire said as she headed for the craft room. Kaz, Beckett, and

第六章鬼魂回来了那么，你又带回来一些走失的鬼魂了吗？”贝克特在图书馆入口处遇到卡兹和克莱尔时问道。 克莱尔拧开瓶盖，卡兹游了出来，膨胀到正常大小。 卡兹的幽灵狗和克莱尔的实体猫蹦蹦跳跳地跑来迎接他们。 克莱尔迅速搔了搔托尔的耳朵。 “不，”卡兹闷闷不乐地说。他揉了揉科斯莫的肚子。 “我们需要谈谈这个案子，”克莱尔边说边走向工艺室。 卡兹，贝克特，还有

Cosmo followed. Claire sat down at the table. "I don't know about you, Kaz, but I think Jonathan saw a real ghost." Kaz agreed. "And I think the ghost he saw was probably your mom," Claire said. Kaz agreed with that, too. "But you searched the whole school and you didn't find her," Claire went on. "That's because she's not there anymore," Kaz said. "Well, that's what I thought... until we saw that message after school," Claire said. "My mom didn't write that message," Kaz said. His mom would never draw creepy eyes on a wall or write a scary message. "What message?" Beckett asked. "Someone wrote, 'Beware. I'm here. And I'm watching' on a wall at my school," Claire said. "We don't know who wrote it. It could've been a

Cosmo紧随其后。克莱尔在桌旁坐下。 “我不知道你怎么想，卡兹，但我觉得乔纳森看到了一个真正的鬼。” Kaz同意了。“我觉得他看到的鬼可能是你妈妈，”克莱尔说。 卡兹也同意这一点。 “但是你找遍了整个学校都没找到她，”克莱尔接着说。 “那是因为她已经不在了，”卡兹说。 “嗯，我也是这么想的…… 直到我们放学后看到了那条信息，”克莱尔说。 “那不是我妈妈写的，”卡兹说。 他妈妈绝不会在墙上画吓人的眼睛，也不会写吓人的留言。 “什么消息?”贝克特问道。 “有人写道，‘小心。我在这里。 我正在学校的墙上看，”克莱尔说。 “我们不知道是谁写的。 也可以是a

ghost." "It wasn't a ghost," Kaz said. Claire unzipped her bag and pulled out her clues notebook. "Let's write down everything we know about this case," she said. "The things we know for sure. Maybe that'll give us a clue about who could have written it." Kaz and Beckett hovered above Claire as she wrote: 1. Jonathan saw a ghost in the cafetorium

鬼。”“那不是鬼，”卡兹说。 克莱尔拉开包的拉链，拿出她的线索笔记本。 “让我们把我们知道的关于这个案子的一切都写下来，”她说。 “我们确定的事情。 也许这能给我们一个线索，知道是谁写的。” 卡兹和贝克特在克莱尔的头顶盘旋，她写道：1。 乔纳森在食堂里看见了鬼

yesterday. 2. Kaz found a bead that belongs to his mom. He found it close to where Jonathan saw the ghost yesterday. "You found a bead that belongs to your mother?" Beckett asked. "Yes." Kaz reached into his pocket and pulled out the ghost bead. "How do you know it's your mother's?" Beckett reached for the bead, but Kaz held tight to it. "I just do," Kaz said, slipping the bead back inside his pocket. He knew his mom's necklace when he saw it. Claire kept writing: 3. Someone drew two eyes and wrote "Beware. I'm here. And I'm watching" in— Claire raised her head. "We don't know what they wrote it with. Maybe paint. But maybe ghost blood." "Ghost blood!" Beckett sniffed. "There's no

昨天。2. 卡兹发现了一颗属于他妈妈的珠子。 他在乔纳森昨天看到鬼魂的地方附近找到的。 “你找到了一颗属于你母亲的珠子？”贝克特问道。 “是的。”卡兹把手伸进口袋，掏出了鬼头。 “你怎么知道是你妈妈的？”贝克特伸手去拿那颗头，但卡兹抓得很紧。 “我就是喜欢。”卡兹说着，把珠子塞回口袋里。 他一眼就认出是他妈妈的项链。 克莱尔一直在写：有人画了两只眼睛，写着“小心”。 我在这里。“我在看”——克莱尔抬起头。 “我们不知道他们用什么写的。 也许油漆。但也许是鬼血。” “鬼血!”贝克特闻了闻。 “没有

such thing as ghost blood." "That's what I told her," Kaz said. "But it did kind of glow. You know, like ghosts do." Claire added: —something. We don't know what they wrote it in. Then she moved on to number four. "We're pretty sure the storage room was locked," she said out loud as she wrote. "But Mr. Hartshorn's keys were on the table," Kaz said. "A girl named Amber thought that a boy named Noah took them and wrote the message. And Noah thought Amber did it." Claire set down her pencil and leaned back against her chair. "Anyone could have taken Mr. Hartshorn's keys and written that message. Or... a ghost could've passed through the wall or the door and written it." Kaz didn't think a ghost had done it, but he didn't want to argue with Claire. "You should come to school with me again

鬼血之类的东西。” “我就是这么告诉她的，”卡兹说。 “但它确实有点发光。你知道，就像鬼一样。” 克莱尔补充道：“什么。” 我们不知道题目用什么写的。 然后她又去了第四个。 “我们很确定储藏室是锁着的，”她边写边大声说。 “但是哈茨霍恩先生的钥匙在桌子上，”卡兹说。 一个名叫安布尔的女孩认为是一个名叫诺亚的男孩拿走了它们并写下了这条信息。 诺亚认为是安布尔干的。” 克莱尔放下铅笔，向后靠在椅子上。 “任何人都可能拿了哈茨霍恩先生的钥匙，并写下了这条信息。 还是……可能是鬼魂穿过墙或门写的。” 卡兹不认为是鬼魂干的，但他不想和克莱尔争论。 “你应该再和我一起去学校

tomorrow and look for more clues," Claire told Kaz. "No," Beckett said, shaking his head. "Absolutely not. Kaz already had a day off from his ghost skills. He can't take another day off." "You know what, Beckett?" Claire said, her hands on her hips. "You're not the boss of Kaz. If he wants to come to school with me, he can!" "That's right," Kaz said. He decided he would go to school with Claire again tomorrow. He would try to figure out who wrote that message on the storage-room wall. Maybe he'd even find more beads from his mom's necklace. The next day, while Claire was in class, Kaz searched her school for clues. And for beads. He didn't find any clues or beads. After school, he watched Claire's rehearsal again. Today, the red curtain was open and there was a small house in the middle of the stage. Jack's house. Kaz floated all around it. He was

明天去寻找更多的线索，”克莱尔告诉卡兹。 “不，”贝克特摇着头说。 “绝对不会。卡兹已经放了一天假了。 他不能再请一天假了。” “你知道吗，贝克特？”克莱尔双手叉腰说。 “你不是卡兹的老板。 如果他想和我一起去学校，他可以的！”“没错，”卡兹说。 他决定明天再和克莱尔一起去学校。 他会试着找出是谁在储藏室墙上写的那句话。 也许他还能从他妈妈的项链上找到更多珠子。 第二天，当克莱尔在课堂上时，卡兹在她的学校里寻找线索。 还有珠子。他没有找到任何线索或珠子。 放学后，他又看了一遍克莱尔的排练。 今天，红幕拉开了，舞台中间有一间小房子。 杰克的房子。和子在它周围飘来飘去。 他是