17 Good work!

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Good work! PETER QUICKLY told the girls all that had happened, and they listened in silence, feeling very thrilled. Now they were really finding out something, and even that button had helped! 'I think the short-haired man has either just come out of prison or escaped from it,' said Peter. 'He may have committed a robbery before he went in, and have hidden what he stole, and it's these goods he and the other man are trying to sell to Sid.' 'Well, who's Q, then?' asked Janet. 'Where does he come in?' 'He's probably holding the stolen goods,' said Peter, working everything out in his mind. 'And I expect he's sheltering the thief, too, If

第十七章干得好！彼得很快把发生的一切告诉了女孩们，她们静静地听着，感到非常激动。 现在他们真的发现了一些东西，甚至那个按钮也有帮助！“我想那个短发男人不是刚从监狱里出来，就是从监狱里逃出来的。”彼得说。 “他进去之前可能犯过抢劫案，把偷来的东西藏了起来，他和另一个人想卖给希德的就是这些东西。“那么，Q是谁？”珍妮特问。 “他从哪儿进来的？”“他很可能拿着赃物。”彼得说，在脑子里盘算着一切。 “我想他也在庇护那个小偷，If

only we could find out who Q is and where he lives. He's the missing link.' The five of them talked and talked, and Scamper listened and joined in with a few wuffs now and again, thumping his tail on the ground when the chatter got very loud. 'When will George and Jack be back?' asked Pam. 'I ought not to be too late home, and it's a quarter past six now!' 'Here they are!' said Colin, hearing voices outside. A knock came at the door. 'Password!' shouted everyone. 'Bonfire!' said two voices, and in went George and Jack, beaming all over their faces, glad to be out of the cold, dark November night. 'What happened? Did you shadow them?' demanded Peter, as they sat down on boxes. 'Yes,' said George. 'We followed them all the way down the street, and away by the canal and up by Cole Square. We only once

只有我们知道Q是谁，他住在哪里。 他是缺失的一环。”他们五个不停地说啊说，斯坎普听着，时不时地哼哼几声，当声音变得很大的时候，他就用尾巴敲着地面。 “乔治和杰克什么时候回来？”潘问。 “我回家不应该太晚，现在已经六点一刻了！”“他们来了！”科林听到外面有人说话，问道。 有人敲门。“密码!大家都喊道。 “篝火!两个声音说，乔治和杰克走了进来，他们满脸笑容，很高兴能从寒冷、黑暗的十一月夜晚出来。 “出了什么事?你跟踪他们了吗？他们坐在箱子上时，彼得问。 “是的，”乔治说。“我们一直跟着他们，沿着街道走，离开了运河，来到了科尔广场。 我们只有一次

got near enough to hear them say anything.' 'What was that?' asked Peter. 'One of them said "Is that a policeman lying in wait for us over there? Come on, run for it!"' said George. 'And just as a bobby came out of the shadows they ran round the corner, and the policeman never even noticed them! We shot after them, just in time to see them trying the handles of some cars parked there.' 'Then they slid quickly into one and drove off,' finished Jack. 'That was the end of our shadowing.' 'So they stole another car!' said Colin.

我离他们很近，能听到他们说话。“那是什么？”彼得问。 “其中一个说：‘那边是不是有警察在等我们？ 加油，快跑！乔治说。 “就在一个警察从阴影里出来的时候，他们从拐角处跑了过去，警察甚至没有注意到他们！”我们跟在他们后面开枪，正好看到他们在摆弄停在那里的几辆车的把手。“然后他们迅速溜进一辆车，开走了。”杰克说完。 我们的影子就这样结束了。“所以他们又偷了一辆车！”科林说。

'You didn't take the number by any chance, did you?' asked Peter. 'Of course!' said Jack, and took out his notebook. 'Here it is, PLK 100. We didn't go back and tell the policeman. We thought we'd race back here and let you decide what we ought to do next.' 'Good work,' said Peter, pleased. 'If only we knew where Q lived, we'd know where the men were, and could tell the police to go and grab them there. They'd get the stolen goods

“你不会碰巧拿了号码吧？”彼得问。 “当然!杰克说着，拿出了他的笔记本。 “给你，PLK 100。我们没有回去告诉警察。 我们想赶紧赶回来让你决定下一步该怎么做。“干得好。”彼得高兴地说。 “要是我们知道Q住在哪里就好了，我们就知道那些人在哪里，就能让警察去那里抓他们。 他们会得到赃物

too. I bet they're being held by our mysterious Q!' 'I know! I know!' suddenly yelled Pam, making everyone jump. 'Why can't we look up all the names beginning with Q in our local telephone directory? If Q lives somewhere here, his name would be there, and his number.' 'Yes but there might be a lot of Qs, and we wouldn't know which was the right one,' objected Janet. 'Why, we ourselves know a Mrs Queen, a Mr Quigley and a Miss Quorn.' 'But don't you see what I mean!' said Pam, impatiently. 'We'll go down all the list of Qs, and the one with the telephone number of 8061 will be our Q! Don't you see?' Everyone saw what she meant at once. Peter looked at Pam admiringly. 'That's a very good idea, Pam,' he said. 'I've sometimes thought that you're not as good a Secret Seven member as the others are, but now I know you

了。我打赌他们被我们神秘的Q抓住了！“我知道！”我知道!潘突然喊道，把大家都吓了一跳。 “为什么我们不能在本地电话簿上查到所有以Q开头的名字？” 如果Q住在这里，他的名字和电话号码就会在这里。“是的，但可能有很多q，我们不知道哪个是正确的，”珍妮特反对道。 “啊，我们自己也认识一位奎恩夫人，一位奎格利先生和一位奎恩小姐。“可是你不明白我的意思吗？”潘不耐烦地说。 “我们把所有的Q都查一遍，电话号码是8061的那个就是我们的Q!”你还不明白吗？”大家立刻明白了她的意思。 彼得羡慕地看着潘。 “这是个好主意，帕姆，”他说。 “我有时觉得你不像其他人那样是一个优秀的七人秘密成员，但现在我了解你了

are. That's a Very Good Idea. Why didn't we think of it before instead of messing about with KEW?' 'I'll get our telephone directory with all the numbers in,' said Janet and raced off. She soon came back, gave the password and joined the others. She opened the book at the Qs, and everyone craned to look at them. There were not very many. 'Quant,' read Pam, 'telephone number 6015. Queen, 6453, Quelling, 4322, Quentin, 8061…! That's it. Look, here it is, Quentin, 8061, Barr's Warehouse East End. Why, that's only about two miles away, right at the other end of the town.' 'Gosh!' said Peter, delighted. 'That's given us JUST the information we wanted. A warehouse, too. A fine place for hiding stolen goods! My goodness, we've done some excellent work. Pam, you deserve a pat on the back!'

是什么。这是个好主意。 为什么我们之前没有想到这一点，而是把KEW搞得一团糟？“我去把我们所有的电话号码簿拿进去，”珍妮特说着就跑开了。 她很快就回来了，说出了密码，加入了其他人的行列。 她打开书里的q，每个人都伸长了脖子看。 不是很多。“匡特，”帕姆念道，“电话号码是6015。 奎恩，6453，奎林，4322，昆汀，8061…！就是这样。 看，在这儿，昆汀，8061号，巴尔仓库东区。 唔，那离这儿只有两英里远，就在镇子的另一头。“天啊!彼得高兴地说。 “这正是我们想要的信息。 还有一个仓库。一个藏匿赃物的好地方！天哪，我们干得真不错。 帕姆，你值得表扬！”