10 CAUGHT!

CHAPTER 10 CAUGHT! Kaz?" Claire called from outside the tree branch. "The door and windows are closed. You guys can come out now. But hurry!" "See?" Kaz said to his family. "I told you Claire would come back." He swam through the branch and back into the tree house. Little John, Mom, and Pops swam behind him. "I knew she'd rescue us," Little John said as he started to expand. "No, don't expand," Claire said. She held out her water bottle. "Quick! Get in here." She strained to see out the window as she spoke to the

第十章被抓住了！Kaz ?”克莱尔在树枝外面叫道。 “门窗都关着。 你们现在可以出来了。 但快!”“看到了吗?”和子对他的家人说。 “我告诉过你克莱尔会回来的。” 他游过树枝，回到树屋。 小约翰、妈妈和爸爸跟在他后面游。 “我知道她会来救我们的，”小约翰一边说一边开始扩张。 “不，不要扩张，”克莱尔说。 她拿出她的水瓶。 “快!进来吧。”她一边跟孩子说话，一边使劲向窗外看

ghosts. "I think Margaret and Kenya caught the person who tried to break in. I want to see who it is." "We do, too!" Kaz said as he passed through the side of the bottle. Little John, Mom, and Pops were right behind him. Claire flung the strap around her neck, then hurried out the door and down the rope ladder. When she was close to the ground, she jumped the rest of the way. It was dark outside, but a light on Margaret's house lit up much of the backyard. "I'll bet life is always an adventure with this girl," Mom said as Claire raced across the yard. "Um... sort of," Kaz said. But adventure was a good thing, wasn't it? Claire caught up to the other girls over by the climbing structure. Olivia and Kenya had hold of someone: Henry's friend, Sam.

鬼。“我认为玛格丽特和肯雅抓住了试图闯入的人。 我想看看是谁。”“我们也是！”卡兹穿过瓶子边说。 小约翰、妈妈和爸爸就在他后面。 克莱尔把皮带套在脖子上，然后匆匆出门，下了绳梯。 当她接近地面时，她跳着走完剩下的路。 外面很黑，但玛格丽特家的一盏灯照亮了后院的大部分地方。 “我敢打赌，和这个女孩在一起的生活永远是一场冒险，”克莱尔跑过院子时，妈妈说。 “嗯……差不多吧，”卡兹说。 但冒险是件好事，不是吗？ 克莱尔在攀爬设施旁赶上了其他女孩。 奥利维亚和肯雅抓住了一个人：亨利的朋友萨姆。

Margaret stood in front of him with her arms crossed. "Why were you trying to break into our tree house?" she asked. "I told you. I'm trying to find the treasure," Sam said, lunging forward. But Olivia and Kenya held tight to his arms. "I have to find the treasure before I can join the treasure hunters' club." "There's no treasure in our tree house," Margaret said. "My phone says there is," Sam insisted. "I'll show you if you let go of me." Olivia and Kenya exchanged a look.

玛格丽特交叉着双臂站在他面前。 “你为什么要闯进我们的树屋？”她问。 “我告诉过你。我正在努力寻找宝藏，”萨姆说着向前扑去。 但是奥利维亚和肯雅紧紧地抱着他的胳膊。 “在我加入寻宝俱乐部之前，我必须找到宝藏。” “我们的树屋里没有财宝，”玛格丽特说。 “我手机上说有，”萨姆坚持说。 “如果你放开我，我就给你看。” 奥利维亚和肯雅交换了一下眼色。

"Okay. Show us," Olivia said as they let go. But they were both ready to grab him again if he ran away. Sam reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his phone. "That's a pretty nice phone for a kid your age," Kenya said. "It's my dad's old phone," Sam said with a shrug. "He got a new one." He turned on the phone, and the screen gave off a bluish glow. Like a glowing ghost, Kaz thought. Sam slid his finger around the screen, then held the phone for the girls to see. Unfortunately, Kaz and his family couldn't see the screen from inside Claire's water bottle. "The green dot shows where we are, and the red dot shows where the treasure is," Sam explained. "Let's start walking toward the red dot."

“好吧。给我们看看。”他们松开手时奥利维亚说。 但他们都准备好了，如果他逃跑，就再抓住他。 山姆把手伸进夹克口袋，掏出手机。 “对于你这个年龄的孩子来说，这是一款非常不错的手机，”肯亚说。 “这是我爸爸的旧电话，”山姆耸耸肩说。 “他买了一个新的。”他打开手机，屏幕发出蓝光。 像个发光的幽灵，卡兹想。 山姆用手指在屏幕上滑动，然后拿起手机让女孩们看。 不幸的是，卡兹和他的家人无法从克莱尔的水瓶里看到屏幕。 “绿点表示我们所在的位置，红点表示宝藏所在的位置，”萨姆解释说。 “我们开始朝红点走吧。”

They moved slowly in a tight group toward the tree house, their eyes fixed on the phone in Sam's hand. They stopped right below the tree house. "See?" Sam said. "The two dots are right on top of each other. That means the treasure is here." "Where?" Little John asked. "I'm telling you, there's no treasure inside our tree house," Margaret said. "I don't know what the treasure box looks like, but it could be in there and you might not know it," Sam said. "It could be a big metal box like this." He spread his hands wide apart. "Or it could be a tiny container like this." He held his thumb and first finger an inch apart. "It's probably more likely to be a tiny container." Kaz hovered near the top of Claire's water bottle. "Claire!" he called. "I saw a metal box

他们紧紧地聚集在一起，慢慢地向树屋走去，眼睛盯着萨姆手里的电话。 他们就停在树屋下面。 “看到了吗?”山姆说。“这两个点正好在彼此的上面。 这意味着宝藏在这里。” “在哪里?”小约翰问。 “我告诉你，我们的树屋里没有宝藏。”玛格丽特说。 “我不知道宝箱是什么样子，但它可能就在里面，而你可能不知道，”山姆说。 “可能是一个像这样的大金属盒子。” 他把双手摊开。 “也可能是一个像这样的小容器。” 他把大拇指和食指分开一英寸。 “它更有可能是一个小容器。” 卡兹在克莱尔的水瓶顶部附近徘徊。 “克莱尔！”他喊道。“我看到了一个金属盒子

inside that tree branch. You wouldn't be able to get to it from the tree house unless you could pass through the branch. But there must be a hole in the tree down here somewhere. That's where the box is. I could feel air coming in from the Outside all around the box." "Maybe there's a hole in the tree," Claire said to the others. "Maybe that's where the treasure is." "There is a hole," Sam said. "It's over here." He led everyone around the tree. Olivia shined her flashlight on a hole about the size of Claire's water bottle. "There isn't anything inside it, though." Sam stuck his hand inside the hole. Claire walked over. "Maybe you're not reaching in far enough," she said. Sam stepped aside, and Claire put her whole arm inside the hole. "Be careful, Claire," Olivia said nervously. "What if there's a bobcat or something in there, and it bites your arm off?"

在那根树枝里面。除非你能穿过树枝，否则你无法从树屋到达那里。 但树下面一定有个洞。 盒子就在那里。我能感觉到空气从盒子外面吹进来。” “也许树上有个洞，”克莱尔对其他人说。 “也许宝藏就在那里。” “有一个洞，”萨姆说。 “就在这儿。”他带领大家围着树转。 奥利维亚用手电筒照着克莱尔的水瓶大小的一个洞。 “不过，里面什么也没有。” 萨姆把手伸进洞里。 克莱尔走了过来。“也许你做得还不够深，”她说。 萨姆站到一边，克莱尔把她的整个手臂伸进洞里。 “小心点，克莱尔。”奥利维亚紧张地说。 “如果里面有山猫之类的东西，把你的胳膊咬掉了怎么办？”