6. The Chase!

THE CHASE! 6 Sam was relieved when the day was over. Ever since lunch, he had been jumpy and so had Jasper Eerie. The substitute teacher was clearly flustered. He simply told the students to read quietly. But Sam hadn't been able to concentrate. And every time he looked up from his book, Jasper Eerie was watching him. Students and teachers headed home. But Sam, Antonio, and Lucy headed to the playground.

追逐!一天过去了，萨姆松了一口气。 从午饭后，他就一直忐忑不安，贾斯帕·怪诞也是如此。 代课老师显然很慌张。 他只是告诉学生们安静地阅读。 但山姆一直无法集中注意力。 每次他从书本上抬起头来，贾斯帕·怪异都在看着他。 学生和老师纷纷回家。 但山姆、安东尼奥和露西向操场走去。

They all hid behind the jungle gym, watching the exit. They were waiting for Jasper to leave. "There he is!" Sam whispered. "Look!" Lucy said. "Jasper is carrying one of Orson's creepy old journals. It looks like the one we found in the school basement after the locker swallowed me up." Antonio gulped. "That is not a good sign..." Jasper unlocked a rusty bicycle from the bike rack. He glanced around, like he knew he was being watched.

他们都躲在攀爬架后面，看着出口。 他们在等贾斯帕离开。 “他在那儿！”山姆低声说。 “看!”露西说。"贾斯珀拿着一本奥森的诡异旧日记。 它看起来就像我们在学校地下室找到的那个，那是在我被储物柜吞没之后。” 安东尼奥一饮而尽。“这不是一个好兆头……” 贾斯帕从自行车架上打开了一辆生锈的自行车。 他环顾四周，好像知道有人在监视他。

Then he sped away. "Come on!" Sam said. The friends ran after him. "Careful!" Lucy added. "We can't let him see us!" When Jasper stopped at a crosswalk, the friends ducked behind an oak tree. Peeking around it, Antonio said, "I feel like I'm in a spy movie!"

然后他疾驰而去。“来吧!”山姆说。 朋友们追着他跑。 “小心!”露西补充道。“我们不能让他看见我们！”当贾斯珀在人行横道上停下来时，朋友们躲到一棵橡树后面。 安东尼奥环顾四周，说：“我感觉自己像是在拍间谍电影！”

Lucy smiled. "That's better than most days. Usually, it feels like we're in a horror movie!" Jasper rode faster. Sam and his friends had to sprint to keep up. Soon, Jasper turned down a shadowy street. The friends heard his bicycle rattle to a halt. Sam's side was hurting as he sped around the corner. He glanced both ways down the sidewalk, but there was no sign of their substitute teacher. "He disappeared!" Antonio exclaimed.

露西笑了笑。“这比大多数时候都好。 通常情况下，我们感觉像是在拍恐怖电影！”贾斯帕骑得更快了。 萨姆和他的朋友们不得不冲刺才能跟上。 不久，贾斯帕拐进了一条阴暗的街道。 朋友们听到他的自行车嘎吱嘎吱地停了下来。 山姆急匆匆地拐过拐角时，身体的一侧很疼。 他朝人行道两边扫了一眼，但没有他们代课老师的影子。 “他不见了!”安东尼奥喊道。

"He must've known we were on to him," Lucy said, kicking the ground. Sam eyed the old, tall houses that lined the crooked street. Then he spotted it. "Look!" Sam said, pointing to a rusted iron fence. Jasper's bicycle sat at the end of a cracked driveway that led to a rundown house. The house's windows were broken, and the roof was sunken in. Dead weeds covered the lawn. If Eerie Elementary were a house, this is what it would look like, thought Sam.

“他一定知道我们盯上他了。”露茜说着，踢了踢地面。 山姆望着弯弯曲曲的街道两旁那些高大的老房子。 然后他发现了它。“看!”山姆指着生锈的铁栅栏说。 贾斯帕的自行车停在一条有裂缝的车道的尽头，这条车道通向一所破旧的房子。 房子的窗户都破了，屋顶塌陷了。 死草覆盖了草坪。 如果怪诞小学是一所房子，这就是它的样子，山姆想。

"That house was in the library book!" Lucy exclaimed. She pulled Eerie: A Town History from her backpack. Her face lit up as she flipped through the pages. "This was Orson Eerie's house. This is where he lived when he was alive..."

“那所房子在图书馆的书里！”露西喊道。 她从背包里拿出《怪诞：小镇历史》。 她翻看书页时，脸上露出喜色。 “这是奥森·怪诞的房子。 这是他生前住过的地方……”