2 A PROBLEM WITH THE GHOST DOLL

CHAPTER 2 A PROBLEM WITH THE GHOST DOLL Was it Kaz's imagination or was someone calling his name? He pressed his ear to the wall that led back to the library craft room and listened. There it was again. A soft, muffled voice on the other side of the wall. "Kaz? Where are you?" "Claire?" Kaz called back. "I'm in here." "You're in the secret room?" Claire's voice was louder now. She'd clearly moved over to the wall. But her voice still sounded muffled. Kaz took a deep breath, then swam back through the wall and the bookcase, kicking hard, hard, hard until he was back in the library craft room. Paper cranes dangled from the ceiling above

这是和子的想象，还是有人在叫他的名字？ 他把耳朵贴在通往图书馆工艺室的墙上，仔细听着。 它又出现了。墙的另一边传来一个柔和而低沉的声音。 “Kaz ?你在哪儿？”“克莱尔?”卡兹回了电话。 “我在这里。”“你在密室里？”克莱尔的声音现在更大了。 她显然已经移到墙边去了。 但她的声音听起来仍然很低沉。 卡兹深吸了一口气，然后游过墙壁和书柜，使劲地、使劲地、使劲地踢，直到他回到图书馆的工艺室。 天花板上悬挂着纸鹤

his head. "Good for you, Kaz!" Claire clapped her hands together. "You passed through the bookshelf! Your ghost skills are getting better every day." Kaz beamed. Claire peered at the bookshelf as though she were trying to see through it. "So, what's back there anyway?" "A whole bunch of ghostly objects," Kaz said as Little John, Cosmo, and Beckett passed through the bookshelf behind him. Little John's arms overflowed with ghostly objects.

他的头。“好样的，卡兹！”克莱尔拍了拍手。 “你穿过了书架！”你做鬼的技术一天比一天好。” Kaz传送。克莱尔盯着书架，好像想看透它似的。 “那么，后面到底是什么？”“一大堆幽灵般的东西，”卡兹说，这时小约翰、科斯莫和贝克特从他身后的书架上走过。 小约翰的怀里满是幽灵般的东西。

"We found our brother Finn's shoe," Little John said, holding it up. "And we found this doll." He held the doll up next. "I think it belongs to my friend Kiley. Will you take Kaz and me to her haunt so we can return it to her?" "Sure," Claire said as she wandered the length of the bookshelf. Little John let go of all the ghostly objects, except for the doll. "Will you take us there now?" he asked. He expanded to giant size and placed himself right in front of Claire. "In a little bit," Claire said, walking around him. "Why does everyone always say, 'in a little bit'?" Little John moaned. "Was there any solid stuff back there?" Claire asked Kaz. It was the first time he'd ever heard Claire talk about solid stuff. She normally didn't like that word. Kaz tried to hide his surprise. "Not much," he said. "Just some old papers and bottles. Oh! And

“我们找到了芬恩兄弟的鞋子，”小约翰说，把它举起来。 “我们找到了这个娃娃。”他接着举起了娃娃。 “我想它属于我的朋友凯利。 你能不能带我和卡兹去她常去的地方，把它还给她？”“当然，”克莱尔边说边在书架上徘徊。 小约翰放弃了所有的鬼东西，除了娃娃。 “你现在带我们去那儿好吗？”他问。 他变大了，站在克莱尔的正前方。 “有一点，”克莱尔绕着他说。 “为什么每个人都说‘有一点’？”小约翰呻吟着。 “后面有什么坚固的东西吗？”克莱尔问卡兹。 这是他第一次听到克莱尔谈论实实在在的事情。 她通常不喜欢这个词。 卡兹试图掩饰他的惊讶。 “没什么，”他说。“只是一些旧报纸和瓶子。 哦!和

an envelope that says TOP SECRET on it." "What was in it?" Claire asked. "We don't know," Kaz said. "We couldn't get it open." "Kaz tried to turn it ghostly so we could bring it through the wall, but it didn't work," Little John said. "I wish I could go back there and open it myself," Claire said. "Can we go find Kiley's haunt now?" Little John asked. "Please? It's not far from here." "Where is it?" Claire asked. "You have to walk to the end of the street and through the park. Then turn a corner. It's a big purple house with pink around the windows," Little John said. "Oh, I know that house," Claire said with a grin. She glanced up at the clock. "It's getting late. My mom might not let me go now. But let's try. Are you guys ready to shrink?" She twisted the top off her water bottle.

信封上写着绝密。” “里面有什么？”克莱尔问道。 “我们不知道，”卡兹说。 “我们打不开。” 小约翰说：“卡兹想让它像幽灵一样转动，这样我们就可以把它从墙里拿出来，但是没有用。” 克莱尔说：“我希望我能回到那里亲自打开它。” “我们现在能去找凯莉常去的地方吗？”小约翰问。 “请吗?离这儿不远。” “它在哪儿？”克莱尔问道。 “你必须走到街的尽头，穿过公园。 然后拐个弯。那是一座紫色的大房子，窗户周围都是粉红色的，”小约翰说。 “哦，我知道那所房子，”克莱尔笑着说。 她抬头看了一眼钟。 “时间不早了。我妈现在可能不会让我去。 但让我们试一试。你们准备好退缩了吗？”她拧开了水瓶的盖子。

"You don't have to take the top off your bottle anymore," Little John said. "Kaz can pass through now." "Yes, but as long as you've already taken it off...," Kaz said. He still preferred entering the bottle through an open top rather than passing through the side. Kaz and Little John shrank down... down... down... but Little John had a problem. He grew smaller, but the doll in his hand did not.

“你再也不用打开瓶盖了，”小约翰说。 “卡兹现在可以过去了。” “是的，但既然你已经把它摘下来了……卡兹说。 他仍然喜欢从打开的瓶盖进入瓶子，而不是从侧面进入。 卡兹和小约翰退缩了…… 下来……下来……但是小约翰有个问题。 他变小了，但他手里的娃娃却没有。

"Hey!" Little John cried as he dangled from the large ghost doll. "Why didn't this doll shrink with me?" "That's odd," Beckett said, rubbing his chin. Cosmo sniffed the doll. Then he sniffed the tiny Little John. "Careful, Cosmo," Kaz said, pulling the ghost dog back. "Don't eat Little John." Little John expanded to full size with the doll,

“嘿!”小约翰被吊在巨大的幽灵娃娃上时哭了起来。 “为什么这个娃娃没有和我一起萎缩？”“真奇怪，”贝克特一边揉着下巴一边说。 科斯莫嗅了嗅娃娃。然后他嗅了嗅小约翰。 “小心，宇宙，”卡兹说着，把鬼狗拉了回来。 “别吃小约翰。”小约翰带着娃娃长大了，