2 THE FIVE O’CLOCK GHOST

CHAPTER 2 THE FIVE O'CLOCK GHOST Kaz wanted to go with Claire. He wanted to see whether the five o'clock ghost was someone from his family. But what if Cosmo passed through that window while Kaz was out with Claire? What if Cosmo blew away? "I better not," Kaz said, holding tight to his dog. "I should stay here and keep an eye on Cosmo." "Cosmo can shrink," Claire pointed out. "We could bring him in the water bottle with us." Hmm, Kaz thought. We could... "He might get even more riled up if you take

卡兹想和克莱尔一起去。 他想看看五点钟的鬼魂是不是他家里的人。 但如果卡兹和克莱尔出去的时候Cosmo从窗户进来了呢？ 如果宇宙号被吹走了呢？“我最好不要。”卡兹说着，紧紧地抱着他的狗。 “我应该留在这里，盯着《时尚》。” “宇宙可以缩小，”克莱尔指出。 “我们可以把他放在水瓶里。” 嗯，卡兹想。我们可以…… “他可能会更生气，如果你拿。

him with you," Beckett warned. "Whatever's got him so excited is in the Outside." Okay, maybe not, Kaz thought. "Yes, but Kaz will hold on to Cosmo," Claire told Beckett. "Come on, Kaz. You have to come with me. We're C and K Ghost Detectives. We solve cases together." She held the open water bottle out to him.

他和你在一起，”贝克特警告说。 “让他如此兴奋的是外面的事情。” 好吧，也许不是，卡兹想。 “是的，但是卡兹会继续掌管Cosmo，”克莱尔告诉贝克特。 “来吧，卡兹。你得跟我来。 我们是C和K幽灵侦探。 我们一起破案。”她把打开的水瓶递给他。

Beckett shrugged. "It's up to you, Kaz," he said. "As Claire pointed out, I'm not in charge of you." Kaz didn't know what to do. On the one hand, it was nice to make decisions for himself. On the other hand, sometimes making decisions was hard. "Okay," he said finally. "I'll come." "Yay!" said Claire as Beckett shook his head in disapproval. Kaz let Cosmo go again. Then he shrank down... down... down and swam inside Claire's water bottle. "Woof! Woof!" Cosmo barked at Kaz. The dog looked HUGE to Kaz from inside the water bottle. "Come here, boy!" Kaz clapped his hands together. "You've ridden in Claire's bottle before. All you have to do is shrink!" Cosmo sniffed the bottle. He let out another short bark, then shrank down... down... down and swam inside the bottle with Kaz.

贝克特耸了耸肩。“这取决于你，卡兹。”他说。 “就像克莱尔指出的，我管不了你。” 卡兹不知道该怎么办。 一方面，为自己做决定是件好事。 另一方面，有时做决定很困难。 “好吧，”他最后说。“我会来。” “耶！”克莱尔说，贝克特不以为然地摇了摇头。 卡兹又放走了宇宙。然后他缩回身子…… 下来……游到克莱尔的水瓶里。 “汪!汪!”宇宙对卡兹叫道。 在和子看来，这只狗从水瓶里看起来很大。 “过来，孩子！”和子拍了拍手。 “你以前骑过克莱尔的奶瓶。 你所要做的就是缩小！”科斯莫嗅了嗅瓶子。 他又短促地叫了一声，然后缩回身子…… 下来……然后和卡兹一起游到瓶子里。

"Good job," Claire said as she plopped the top on. "Let's go!" She hurried toward the entryway, the water bottle swinging at her side. Beckett drifted after them. "Grandma?" Claire called. "In here," Grandma Karen called back from the fiction room. Claire poked her head around the corner. "I need to go out for a little bit. Is that okay?" Grandma Karen glanced up at the clock on the wall behind her desk. "Now?" she asked. "It's almost dinnertime." "Isn't that what I said?" Beckett asked Claire and Kaz. Grandma Karen could see and hear ghosts when she was Claire's age, but she couldn't do it anymore. She knew that Claire saw ghosts, though. And she knew that Kaz, Beckett, and Cosmo lived here in the library. She even knew that Claire and Kaz were trying to find Kaz's family. Claire's parents didn't know any of that.

“干得好，”克莱尔边说边把盖子盖上。 “我们走吧!”她匆匆走向入口通道，水瓶在身边晃来晃去。 贝克特随波逐流地跟着他们。 “奶奶?”克莱尔。“在这儿，”卡伦奶奶从小说室喊道。 克莱尔从拐角处探出头来。 “我需要出去一下。 这样可以吗？”凯伦奶奶抬头看了看桌子后面墙上的钟。 “现在？”她问。“快到晚饭时间了。” “我不是这么说的吗？”贝克特问克莱尔和卡兹。 奶奶凯伦在克莱尔这么大的时候能看到和听到鬼魂，但她再也不能这样做了。 但她知道克莱尔能看见鬼。 她知道卡兹，贝克特和科斯莫住在图书馆里。 她甚至知道克莱尔和卡兹在找卡兹的家人。 克莱尔的父母对此一无所知。

"It's important," Claire said, patting her water bottle. She had to be careful what she said, because there were other solids in the fiction room. Solids who didn't know about Kaz or Beckett or Cosmo. Grandma Karen understood what Claire was trying to say. "Well, your parents are away at that convention this week. I guess you and I can have dinner a little later tonight," she said. "What about her homework?" Beckett cried, throwing his hands up in the air. "Aren't you going to ask her about her homework?" "I want you home before dark," Grandma Karen said to Claire. "Okay." Claire nodded. "Thanks, Grandma." Beckett groaned. "You are entirely too easy on that child when her parents are away," he told Grandma Karen. Once Kaz and Claire were outside, Claire took out her phone to get directions to David's house. "It's not far," she said as she marched up the

“这很重要，”克莱尔拍拍她的水瓶说。 她说话必须小心，因为小说室里还有其他固体。 不知道卡兹，贝克特，宇宙报的人。 卡伦奶奶明白克莱尔想说什么。 “嗯，你父母这周去参加会议了。 我想你和我今晚可以晚一点吃晚饭，”她说。 “她的家庭作业怎么办？”贝克特喊道，双手举在空中。 “你不打算问问她的家庭作业吗？”“我要你天黑前回家，”卡伦奶奶对克莱尔说。 “好吧。”克莱儿点了点头。“谢谢,奶奶。” 贝克特呻吟着。“那个孩子父母不在家，你对她太宽容了，”他对凯伦奶奶说。 卡兹和克莱尔一到外面，克莱尔就拿出手机问去大卫家的路。 “不远，”她边走边说

street. Cosmo's ears stood straight up and his nose twitched. Something in the Outside had caught his attention again. Kaz tightened his hold on his dog. Claire turned a corner, and they saw a solid dog and its owner coming toward them. The dog was on a leash, jogging beside a woman who had buds in her ears. "Woof! Woof!" Cosmo barked at the jogger and her dog. "WOOF! WOOF!" the solid dog barked back as it lunged at Claire's water bottle. That dog was smaller than Cosmo when Cosmo was his normal size, but it had a much scarier bark. "Daisy! No!" The woman jerked on the leash and pulled her dog back. She walked way around Claire on the grass. Cosmo struggled to break free from Kaz, but Kaz held on tight. The woman pulled one of the buds from her ears. "I'm sorry," she said to Claire as her dog

街。科斯莫竖起了耳朵，鼻子抽动着。 外面的什么东西又引起了他的注意。 卡兹把狗抓得更紧了。 克莱尔拐了个弯，他们看见一只结实的狗和它的主人朝他们走来。 那只狗拴着皮带，在一个耳朵里戴着花蕾的女人旁边慢跑。 “汪!汪!”科斯莫对着慢跑者和她的狗狂吠。 “汪!“汪！”这只结实的狗冲着克莱尔的水瓶狂吠着。 那只狗比科斯莫正常体型时还小，但它的叫声更可怕。 “黛西!不!”那女人猛地拉紧皮带，把狗拉了回来。 她在草地上绕过克莱尔。 宇宙挣扎着要挣脱和子，但和子紧紧抓住不放。 女人从耳朵里拔了一个花蕾。 “对不起，”她对她的狗克莱尔说