11 EXPELLED

EXPELLED It was Leo's soccer ball. Bean started for the door. "No! No! The presents!" hissed Ivy. She stuffed the jar in the trash can and rushed into a stall. Bean rushed after her. "What're you doing?!" Ivy was throwing the fossil and Zuzu's hairclip into the toilet. "Give me your half- dollar," she said. "Quick!" Bean handed it to her. Ivy threw that into the toilet, too. "But why are you putting them in the—?" Bean began. The bathroom door wheezed open. "How else are we going to get them underground?" Ivy whispered. She flushed. "Come out here this instant!"

这是里奥的足球。 比恩朝门口走去。 “不!不!礼物！”艾薇嘶嘶地说。 她把罐子塞进垃圾桶，冲进一个摊位。 比恩追了上去。“你在干什么？！”艾薇把化石和祖祖的发夹扔进了厕所。 “把你的半块钱给我，”她说。 “快!”比恩递给她。 艾薇也把它扔进厕所了。 “可你为什么要把它们放在——”Bean开始。 浴室的门噗的一声开了。 “不然我们怎么把它们弄到地下去？”艾薇低声说。 她脸红了。“马上给我出来！”

They knew that voice. It wasn't Rose the Yard Duty. It was Mrs. Noble. Ivy and Bean came out of the stall. Mrs. Noble's wrinkles were all pointing downward in a terrible frown. "Just what do you think you're doing in here?!" she boomed. "Going to the bathroom?" said Ivy. It was all she could think of. She glanced at Bean. Help! "There are thirty children huddled out in the hall staring at this bathroom like it's a television. I know you're up to something!" Mrs. Noble snapped. "You can tell me, or you can tell the Principal!" She reached out and grabbed Bean by the shoulder. Her fingers were like claws.

他们认得那个声音。不是站场值班的罗斯。 是诺布尔夫人。艾薇和比恩从马厩里走了出来。 诺布尔太太的皱纹全都向下指向，可怕地皱起了眉头。 “你以为你在这儿干什么？！” “去洗手间？”艾薇说。 这是她唯一能想到的。 她瞥了比恩一眼。的帮助!“有三十个孩子挤在大厅里盯着这个浴室，就像看电视一样。 我知道你在搞什么鬼！”诺布尔夫人厉声说。 “你可以告诉我，也可以告诉校长！”她伸手抓住比恩的肩膀。 她的手指像爪子一样。

"We just had to—to—" Bean had no idea what she was going to say next. Then they heard something. A groan. A grinding. A gurgling. A sound of water. And then, from the toilet, a river of water came spilling and splashing over the side and onto the tiles. There was a lot of it, and it didn't stop coming. Something under the floor was making a lot of noise.

“我们只是不得不——”比恩不知道她接下来要说什么。 然后他们听到了一些声音。 呻吟。研磨。潺潺。 水声。然后，一股水流从厕所里溢出来，溅到墙上的瓷砖上。 有很多，而且不停地涌来。 地板下面有什么东西在发出很大的声音。

The water ran over the sides of the toilet and streamed across the tile floor. Mrs. Noble let go of Bean's shoulder and took a step backward. The water flowed toward her red high heels, and she stepped back again. "We heard the toilet making a funny noise," said Ivy, watching the water roll across the floor. "We were trying to fix it when you came in."

水从马桶的侧面溢出，流到瓷砖地板上。 诺布尔太太松开比恩的肩膀，向后退了一步。 水朝她的红色高跟鞋流去，她又往后退了一步。 “我们听到马桶发出一种奇怪的声音，”艾薇说，看着水在地板上滚来滚去。 “你进来的时候，我们正在修呢。”

"But it's still broken" said Bean., The toilet water sloshed around their shoes. "It's kind of gross, isn't it?" said Ivy to Mrs. Noble. "At least there's no you-know-what in it" said Bean., Mrs. Noble didn't answer. She hopped backward, but the water touched her red high heels anyway. "Disgusting!" She hopped. "Disgusting! I'll call the janitor! Uck!" She hopped again, yanked the door open, and was gone.

“但它还是坏了。”比恩说。花露水溅在他们的鞋子上。 “有点恶心，不是吗？”艾薇对诺布尔夫人说。 “至少里面没有什么东西。”比恩说。，诺布尔夫人没有回答。 她向后一跳，但水还是碰到了她的红色高跟鞋。 “恶心!”她跳。“恶心!”我去叫看门人！厄!”她又跳了起来，猛地把门打开，走了。

Ivy and Bean stepped into the breezeway, their shoes making wet marks on the cement. Leo was leaning against the wall with his soccer ball under his arm. Most of the others were still sitting on the benches. "Well?" said Emma. "What happened?" "The ghost has been expelled," said Ivy. "But it wasn't easy." "Mrs. Noble ran," said Vanessa. Bean shrugged. "She was scared. She couldn't take it."

艾薇和比恩走进走廊，他们的鞋子在水泥地上留下了湿印。 利奥腋下夹着足球，靠在墙上。 其他大多数人还坐在长凳上。 “怎么样？”艾玛说。“发生什么事了?”“鬼已经被赶走了，”艾薇说。 “但这并不容易。”“夫人。 高尚的跑，”凡妮莎说。豆耸耸肩。 “她很害怕。她受不了了。”