14 TUESDAY EVENING AT LAST!

CHAPTER FOURTEEN TUESDAY EVENING AT LAST! THERE WAS a meeting the next morning to talk over everything and to make arrangements for Tuesday. It was a proper November day, and a mist hung everywhere. 'My father says there will be a fog before tomorrow,' announced Peter. 'If so those men are going to be lucky on Tuesday. I don't expect the driver of the engine will even guess his train's on the side-line when the points send him there! He won't be able to see a thing.' 'I wish Tuesday would buck up and come,'

第十四章终于在星期二晚上了！第二天上午开会讨论一切，并安排星期二的活动。 这是十一月的一天，到处都是薄雾。 “我爸爸说明天之前会有雾，”彼得宣布。 “如果是这样的话，这些人周二会很幸运。 我不指望火车的司机会猜到他的火车在边线上，当点把他送到那里！他什么也看不见。“我真希望星期二能振作起来来。”

said Jack. 'Susie knows there's something up, and she and her Famous Five are just longing to know what it is! Won't she be wild when she knows that it was her silly trick that put us on to all this?' 'Yes. I guess that will be the end of the Famous Five,' said Colin. 'Hey, Peter, look here. I managed to get hold of a railway map. My father had one. It shows the lines from Petlington, and all the points and everything. Jack, do you think it could have been a map like this that Zeb and Larry and the other man were looking at in Tigger's Barn?' 'Yes. It may have been,' said Jack. 'I bet those men have played this kind of game before. They know the railway so well. Oh, I do wish Tuesday would come!' Tuesday did come at last. Not one of the Secret Seven could do good work at school that day. They kept on and on thinking of the coming night. Peter looked out of the window

杰克说。“苏茜知道出事了，她和她的‘五大名人’都很想知道是怎么回事！”如果她知道是她的愚蠢把戏让我们陷入这一切，她会不会疯掉？“是的。 “我想那将是著名五人组的终结。”科林说。 “嘿，彼得，看这儿。我设法弄到了一张铁路地图。 我父亲有一个。它显示了Petlington的线，以及所有的点和所有的东西。 杰克，你觉得泽布和拉里还有另一个人在跳跳虎的谷仓里看的地图会不会是这样的？“是的。 “可能是吧。”杰克说。 “我敢打赌那些人以前玩过这种游戏。 他们对铁路非常熟悉。 啊，我真希望星期二能来！”星期二终于来了。 那天，七个人在学校里没有一个能好好学习。 他们不停地想着即将到来的夜晚。 彼得向窗外望去

a hundred times that morning! Dad was right, he thought. The fog did come down, a real November fog. And tonight it will be so thick that there will be fog-signals on the railways. We shall hear them go off. The four boys had arranged to meet after tea, with Scamper. Peter thought it would be a good thing to take him with them in case anything went wrong. They all had torches. Peter felt to see if he had any sweets in his pocket to share with his friends. He had! Jolly good! He shivered with excitement. He nearly didn't go with the others, because his mother saw him putting his coat on, and was horrified to think that he was going out into the fog. 'You'll get lost,' she said. 'You mustn't go.' 'I'm meeting the others,' said Peter, desperately. 'I must go.' 'I really can't let you,' said his mother. 'Well

那天早上说了一百遍！爸爸是对的，他想。 雾确实下来了，真正的十一月雾。 今晚的雨会很浓，铁路上会有雾信号。 我们将听到他们的爆炸声。 四个孩子约好了下午茶后和斯坎珀见面。 彼得认为带他一起去是件好事，以防出什么差错。 他们都拿着火把。彼得想看看口袋里有没有糖果可以和朋友们分享。 他了!快乐的好!他激动得发抖。 他差点没和其他人一起去，因为他妈妈看见他穿上外套，想到他要到雾里去，吓了一跳。 “你会迷路的，”她说。 “你不能走。“我要去见其他人。”彼得绝望地说。 “我得走了。“我真的不能让你这么做，”他的母亲说。 “好吧

–not unless you take Scamper with you. He'll know the way home if you don't!' 'Oh, I'm taking Scamper, of course,' said Peter thankfully, and escaped at once, Scamper at his heels. He met the others at his gate and they set off. The thick fog swirled round them, and their torches could hardly pierce it. Then they heard the bang-bang of the fog-signals on the railway. 'I bet Zeb and the rest are pleased with this fog!' said Colin. 'Look, there's the fence that runs beside the railway. If we keep close to that we can't lose our way.' They arrived at the goods yard about five minutes to six, and went cautiously in at the gates, which were open. All the boys had rubber-soled shoes on, and they carefully switched off their torches as they went quietly into the goods yard. They heard the sound of a lorry's engine

-除非你带上斯坎普。 如果你不去，他会认得回家的路的！“哦，我当然带斯坎普去了。”彼得感激地说，立刻逃走了，斯坎普跟在他后面。 他在门口迎接了其他人，然后他们出发了。 浓雾在他们周围盘旋，他们的火把几乎穿透不了。 接着，他们听到了火车上雾号发出的砰的一声。 “我敢打赌，泽布和其他人对这种雾很满意！”科林说。 “看，铁路旁边有一道栅栏。 如果我们紧靠它，就不会迷路。”他们在差五分六点左右到达货场，小心翼翼地走进大门，大门是开着的。 所有的男孩都穿着胶底鞋，他们小心翼翼地关掉手电筒，悄悄地走进货场。 他们听到了卡车引擎的声音

throbbing, and stopped. Voices came to them, low voices, and then they saw a lantern held by someone. 'The gang are here, and the lorry sent by Cheeky Charlie!' whispered Jack. 'You can just see it over there. I bet it's got the name of Hammond or Dalling on it!' 'It was this Tuesday,' said Colin, in relief. 'I did hope we hadn't come all the way here in this fog for nothing.' Bang! Bang-bang! More fog-signals went off and yet more. The boys knew when trains were running over the main-line some distance away because of the sudden explosions of the fog-signals, warning the drivers to look out for the real signals or to go slowly. 'What's the time?' whispered George. 'It's about half-past six now,' whispered back Peter. 'The six–two is late because of the fog. It may be along any time now, or it may

悸动着，停了下来。有声音传来，很低的声音，然后他们看到有人提着一盏灯笼。 “那帮人来了，还有无耻的查理派来的卡车！”杰克小声说。 “你在那边就能看到。 我打赌上面有哈蒙德或达林的名字！“是这个星期二，”科林松了一口气说。 “我真希望我们冒着这么大的雾大老远跑到这儿来，别白跑了。”砰!砰砰的枪声!雾信号越来越多，越来越多。 男孩们知道火车何时在一段距离外的主干线上行驶，因为雾信号突然爆炸，警告司机注意真正的信号，或者放慢速度。 “几点了？”乔治小声说。 “现在差不多六点半了。”彼得小声回答。 因为有雾，6点2分的火车晚点了。 它可能随时会来，也可能

be very late, of course.' BANG! Another fog-signal went off in the next few minutes. The boys wondered if it had gone off under the wheels of the late goods train. It had. The driver put his head out of his train and looked for the signal. It shone green. He could go on. He went on slowly, not knowing he was on the wrong line! Larry was there at the points, well-hidden by the darkness and the fog, and he had switched the goods train carefully on to the little side-line! The goods train left the main-line. It would not go through the station tonight, it would only go into the little goods yard, where silent men awaited it. Larry switched the levers again, so that the next train would go safely on to the main-line. He did not want half a dozen trains on the side-line together! Then he ran down the single-line after the slow-moving train.

当然要很晚才回来。”砰!几分钟后，又发出了一个雾信号。 孩子们想知道它是不是在迟到的货运列车的车轮下爆炸了。 它了。司机把头探出火车，寻找信号。 它发出绿色的光。他可以继续说下去。 他慢慢地往前走，不知道自己打错了电话！拉里就在这些地方，在黑暗和雾中隐蔽得很好，他小心翼翼地把货运列车转到小支线上！货运列车驶离了干线。 今晚它不会穿过车站，它只会进入一个小货场，那里有一群沉默的人在等着它。 拉里再次拨动了操纵杆，这样下一列火车就能安全地驶上主线。 他不希望六列火车同时停在支线上！然后他沿着单线跑去追那辆缓慢行驶的火车。