15 THE RED PILLOW

CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE RED PILLOW WITH THEIR boats the two boys met at the beginning of Ember Lane. George began to tell Colin excitedly what he thought. 'When you called out Ember Lane it sounded exactly like Emma Lane,' he said. 'Suppose that's what Jeff meant? He might have heard wrong, he was half-asleep. Ember Lane. I'm sure that was what it was.' 'And you think something was to happen in Ember Lane on the 25th?' said Colin, looking very thrilled. 'Gosh, you may be right. But what could happen here?' They looked round Ember Lane. Although it

第十五章红枕头和他们的船两个男孩在余烬巷的开头相遇了。 乔治开始兴奋地告诉科林他的想法。 “你喊Ember Lane的时候听起来和Emma Lane一模一样，”他说。 “假设这就是杰夫的意思？” 他可能听错了，他半睡半醒。 安贝车道。我敢肯定是这样的。“你认为25号在恩伯巷会发生什么事吗？”科林说，看起来很激动。 “天哪，你可能是对的。但这里会发生什么呢？”他们环视了一下余烬巷。 尽管它

was called a lane, it was nothing of the sort, though it might have been years ago. It was a rather wide, dirty street, with great warehouses on either side. It led down to the canal. There were a good many people about, taking parcels from the warehouses, and running messages. It was difficult to imagine any robbery or anything out of the way taking place here. Colin and George examined the street very carefully. They came to one warehouse that had a grating let into the bottom of the wall. They peered down. People were in an underground room below, busy packing up parcels. The grating gave them a little light and air, though it also let in the dust. 'Well, there's a grating!' said George, standing up after peering through for some time. 'I suppose someone could stand here and watch through it, as Jeff said, but what would be the point?'

被称为小巷，这根本不是小巷，虽然这可能是几年前的事了。 这是一条相当宽、肮脏的街道，两边都是大仓库。 它通向运河。周围有很多人，从仓库里取包裹，传递消息。 很难想象这里会发生抢劫或任何不寻常的事情。 柯林和乔治非常仔细地检查了街道。 他们来到一个仓库，仓库的墙脚上开了一道栅栏。 他们往下看。人们在楼下的一间地下房间里忙着打包包裹。 铁栅栏给了他们一点光线和空气，但也让灰尘进来了。 “嗯，有个铁栅栏！”乔治说，朝里面看了一会儿，站了起来。 “我想就像杰夫说的，有人可以站在这里看着，但这有什么意义呢？”

'Someone might watch from the other side of the grating,' said Colin. 'If he stood on that table down there, look, he could peer into the street through the grating. If the place was in darkness, he wouldn't be seen peering out. It would be quite a good place to watch from.' 'It might,' said George. 'Yes, it might. A grating to watch through in Ember Lane. This is rather good! Are we on the track of anything, do you think?' 'Probably not!' said Colin. 'If we are we shall probably spot a red pillow on a sofa somewhere, or hear someone hissing, "MKX, you're wanted"!'

“也许有人会在栅栏的另一边看着。”科林说。 “如果他站在下面那张桌子上，瞧，他就能透过铁栅栏向街上张望。 如果是在黑暗中，他不会被人看到往外张望。 那将是一个很好的观看地点。“有可能，”乔治说。 “是的，有可能。在余烬巷可以透过栅栏观察。 这是相当不错的！你觉得我们有什么线索吗？“可能不会！”科林说。 “如果是的话，我们可能会在某个地方的沙发上看到一个红枕头，或者听到有人嘶嘶地说：‘MKX，你被通缉了！’”

They went to sail their boats on the canal till dinner-time. Then they went home, peeping through the grating at the foot of the warehouse in Ember Lane as they went. The underground room below was empty now.

他们在运河上驾船航行到晚饭时间。 然后他们回家了，一边走一边透过恩伯巷仓库脚下的栅栏偷看。 下面的地下房间现在空无一人。

The workers had gone to lunch. 'We'd better tell Peter,' said Colin as they parted. 'Let's go along this afternoon and tell him. He ought to know, I think, even though there may be nothing in it.' Peter was most interested. 'That's bright of you,' he said. 'Emma Lane. Ember Lane. Anyone could mishear that quite easily. But I don't think so much of the grating. There are gratings everywhere.' 'Not in Ember Lane,' said Colin. 'We looked, and that's the only one.' 'Janet and I will go along and have a look at Ember Lane this afternoon,' said Peter. 'And the grating.' They went. Ember Lane looked gloomy and dirty. Janet and Peter examined the grating with interest. Colin was right. There was only one in Ember Lane. 'Well, it doesn't tell us much,' said Peter. 'Even if we decided that this was the grating

工人们去吃午饭了。 “我们最好告诉彼得，”他们分手时科林说。 “咱们今天下午就去告诉他吧。 我想他应该知道，即使里面可能什么也没有。”彼得很感兴趣。 “你真聪明，”他说。 “艾玛巷。安贝车道。任何人都很容易听错。 但我不太喜欢光栅。 到处都是栅格。“在余烬巷没有。”柯林说。 “我们找过了，这是唯一的一个。“今天下午珍妮特和我要一起去看看烬巷，”彼得说。 “还有铁栅栏。”他们去了。 余烬巷看上去阴沉而肮脏。 珍妮特和彼得饶有兴趣地检查着铁栅栏。 科林是对的。烬巷只有一个。 “嗯，这说明不了什么。”彼得说。 “即使我们认为这是光栅

through which Mr Tizer or someone was going to watch, why should they want to watch? And what? It's no crime to peer through a grating.' 'They might want to watch unseen for something or someone, so that they could signal his coming to somebody waiting to pounce,' said Janet. Peter stared at her, most impressed. 'Yes. That's exactly what they might do!' he said. 'But what could they see from there? Let's stand with our backs to the grating and see if we can spot what would be within their sight.' They stood and looked hard, their eyes ranging over the warehouse opposite, the pavement, and a lamp-post. 'Well, all that could be seen from behind that grating is the warehouse opposite, though not all of it,' said Janet. 'And the lamp-post, and the pavement near it, and that red pillar

蒂泽尔先生或其他人要看的东西，他们为什么要看？ 和什么?透过栅栏窥视并不是犯罪。“它们可能想看不见什么东西或什么人，这样它们就可以向等待突袭的人发出信号，”珍妮特说。 彼得盯着她，印象深刻。 ‘是的。这正是他们可能会做的！他说。 “但是他们从那儿能看到什么呢？” 咱们背对着铁栅栏站着，看能不能发现他们视线内的东西。”他们站在那里，目不转睛地看着对面的仓库、人行道和一根灯柱。 “嗯，从栅栏后面只能看到对面的仓库，虽然不是全部，”珍妮特说。 “还有灯柱，还有它旁边的人行道，还有那根红柱子