7 ANOTHER GHOST

CHAPTER 7 ANOTHER GHOST Cosmo led Kaz and Beckett to the library entryway. He swam over to the book drop and sniffed at it. "WOOF! WOOF!" he barked, his tail swishing from side to side. But it wasn't an angry bark; it was a happy bark. "Cosmo?" came a small voice from inside the book drop. Kaz's jaw fell open. He knew that voice. "Little John?" "Kaz?" The face of a young ghost boy appeared through the wall of the book drop. "LITTLE JOHN!" Kaz rushed forward. "It is

科斯莫领着卡兹和贝克特来到图书馆的入口。 他游到书架前嗅了嗅。 “汪!汪！”他叫道，尾巴左右摇摆。 但那不是愤怒的吠叫；这是一个快乐的吠叫。 “宇宙？”书柜里传来一个细小的声音。 卡兹的下巴张大了。他认得那声音。 “小约翰?”“Kaz ?”一个年轻的鬼男孩的脸透过书架的墙出现了。 “小约翰!”卡兹冲上前去。 “这是

you!" The rest of Little John passed through the book drop, and the two ghost brothers hugged and danced around. Cosmo was so excited, he could hardly contain himself. He leaped at Little John and licked him all over. "Where did you come from? How did you get here? Are you staying?" Kaz had so many questions. "Staying?" Beckett said. "You mean I'm going to have two kids and a dog to take care of?" "You do not have to take care of us," Kaz told Beckett. For just a second, Beckett looked hurt. Or disappointed. Or something. Was it possible he actually liked taking care of Kaz and Cosmo?

你!”小约翰的其余部分穿过书架，两个幽灵兄弟拥抱在一起，跳起舞来。 科斯莫激动得几乎控制不住自己。 他扑向小约翰，把他舔了个遍。 “你从哪儿来？”你怎么到这儿来的？ 你要留下来吗？”卡兹有很多问题。 “住哪儿?”贝克特说。“你是说我要照顾两个孩子和一只狗？”“你不必照顾我们，”卡兹对贝克特说。 有那么一瞬间，贝克特看起来很受伤。 或失望。什么的。 有没有可能他真的喜欢照顾卡兹和宇宙？

"Who's that?" Little John asked Kaz. "His name is Beckett," Kaz said. "He lives here, too. Beckett, this is my brother Little John." "I figured," Beckett said. "How long have you been here?" Little John asked Kaz. "Since our haunt got torn down," Kaz replied. "The wind blew me in through a window. What happened to you when our haunt got torn down?" "First, I got blown into a barn," Little John said, wrinkling his nose. "There were lots of solid cows in there. They kept mooing at me. And they smelled bad. I didn't like it there, so I left." "You went into the Outside on purpose?" Kaz cried. Ghosts never went into the Outside on purpose. "It was better than staying in that barn," Little John said as he scratched Cosmo's ears. "What happened next?" Kaz asked. "The wind blew me into a house. There was a ghost family and a solid family living there. One

“那是谁?”小约翰问卡兹。 “他叫贝克特，”卡兹说。 “他也住在这里。贝克特，这是我弟弟小约翰。” “我猜到了，”贝克特说。 “你在这儿多久了？”小约翰问卡兹。 “自从我们的房子被拆了，”和子回答。 “风把我从窗户吹了进来。 我们的地盘被拆的时候，你怎么了？”“首先，我被吹进了谷仓，”小约翰皱着鼻子说。 “那里有很多结实的奶牛。 他们不停地向我移动。它们闻起来很难闻。 我不喜欢那里，所以我离开了。” “你是故意到外面去的？”Kaz哭了。 鬼魂从来不会故意去外面。 “这总比呆在谷仓里好，”小约翰一边搔着科斯莫的耳朵一边说。 “接下来发生了什么？”Kaz问道。 “风把我吹进了一间房子。 那里住着一个幽灵家庭和一个实体家庭。 一个

of the ghost girls was six years old, just like me," Little John said. "At night, we liked to glow and scare the solid kids!" "Little John!" Kaz scolded. "What? It was fun." Little John giggled. Then he turned serious. "Those ghosts told me I might find our family in the library. So I rode the wind here. But it kept blowing me past the library instead of inside the library." "I wonder if Cosmo saw you," Kaz said. "Maybe that's why he's been acting so crazy lately!" Kaz had to admit, Cosmo looked pretty calm right now. "How did you finally get in here?" Beckett asked Little John. "Seems to me it would be even harder to come in through the book drop than to pass through a wall." "Not if you're inside a book!" Little John grinned. "When I couldn't get inside the library, I let the wind carry me to another house. The people there had library books, so I went inside one and

其中一个鬼女孩六岁，和我一样，”小约翰说。 “晚上，我们喜欢发光，吓唬那些结实的孩子！”“小约翰!”Kaz责骂。 “什么?这很有趣。”小约翰咯咯地笑。 然后他变得严肃起来。“那些鬼魂告诉我，我可能会在图书馆找到我们的家人。 所以我乘风而来。但它总是把我吹过图书馆，而不是吹进图书馆。” “我想知道宇宙有没有看到你。”卡兹说。 “也许这就是他最近行为如此疯狂的原因！”卡兹不得不承认，宇宙现在看起来很平静。 “你最后是怎么进来的？”贝克特问小约翰。 “在我看来，从掉落的书里进来比穿过一堵墙还要困难。” “如果你在书里就不会！”小约翰笑了。 “当我进不去图书馆的时候，我就让风把我带到另一个房子。 那里的人都有图书馆的书，所以我就进去了

waited for them to take the book back to the library!" Kaz and Little John spent the rest of the night catching up while Cosmo dog-paddled around them. Eventually, Kaz told Little John about Claire and about C & K Ghost Detectives. Little John gaped at Kaz. "You made friends with a solid?" he cried. "Do Mom and Pops know?" "No. I haven't seen Mom and Pops since our haunt got torn down," Kaz said. "You haven't?" Little John said. "You mean, Mom's not here?" "No," Kaz replied. "What makes you think she'd be here?" Little John reached into his pocket and pulled out a small blue ghost bead. Kaz stared. "That's from Mom's necklace!" he exclaimed. "I know," Little John said. "She was at that house with the other ghost family, but that was

等着他们把书拿回图书馆！”卡兹和小约翰整晚都在追，而科斯莫则在他们身边玩耍。 最后，卡兹告诉了小约翰克莱尔和《C & K幽灵侦探》的事。 小约翰目瞪口呆地看着卡兹。“你和一个固体做了朋友？” “爸爸妈妈知道吗？”“没有。 自从我们的鬼地方被拆了，我就没见过爸爸妈妈了。” “你没有?”小约翰说。 “你是说，妈妈不在这儿？”“不，”卡兹回答。 “你为什么认为她会在这里？”小约翰把手伸进口袋，掏出一颗蓝色的鬼头。 Kaz盯着。“那是妈妈项链上的！” “我知道，”小约翰说。 “她和另一个鬼魂家庭在那所房子里，但那是

before I got there. They told her there were ghosts in the library, too. So she left to find the library. She wanted to see if we were the ghosts there." Kaz reached into his pocket and pulled out his own ghost bead. It was exactly like Little John's bead. "You have one, too!" Little John cried. "That means Mom was here. So where'd she go?" Kaz shook his head. "Mom wasn't ever here," he said. "I think Finn was here for a while before I got here. But Mom was never here." "Then where did you get that bead?" Little John asked. "I found it in Claire's school," Kaz replied. "But Mom's not there anymore, either. I don't know where she is." Little John sighed. "Why can't people in our family stay in one place? Then maybe we could

在我到达那里之前。他们告诉她图书馆里也有鬼。 所以她去找图书馆了。 她想看看我们是不是那儿的鬼。” 卡兹把手伸进口袋，掏出了自己的鬼头。 它和小约翰的头一模一样。 “你也有一个！”小约翰哭了。 “那说明妈妈来过这里。那她去哪儿了？”卡兹摇了摇头。 “妈妈从来没来过这里，”他说。 “我想芬恩在我来之前已经在这里有一段时间了。 但是妈妈从来没来过这里。”“那你从哪儿弄来的那颗珠子？”小约翰问。 “我在克莱尔的学校里找到的，”卡兹回答。 “但是妈妈也不在那儿了。 我不知道她在哪儿。” 小约翰叹了口气。“为什么我们家的人不能呆在一个地方？” 也许我们可以