7 A REAL MYSTERY

CHAPTER SEVEN A REAL MYSTERY NOBODY SAID any more about Jack's idea that someone had slipped into the cave. Jack began to think he really must have imagined it. Perhaps it was a shadow from a cloud or something? They all played the game of hide-and-seek again and again, and nobody saw mysterious people slipping into the cave any more! 'It's time to tidy up and go home,' said Peter, at last. 'What a mess we seem to make when we've been in the cave for even a short time!' The girls shook up the cushions, and the

第七章一个真正的谜团杰克认为有人溜进了山洞，没有人再提这件事。 杰克开始想那一定是他自己想象出来的。 也许那是云的影子什么的？ 他们一遍又一遍地玩捉迷藏的游戏，再也没有人看到神秘的人溜进山洞了！“该收拾收拾回家了。”彼得终于说。 “我们在洞里只呆了很短的时间，就弄得一团糟！”姑娘们抖了抖垫子，然后

boys gathered up the rubbish and put it into a bag to take home. Then Janet put the rest of the food back on the shelves, and tidied up Colin's set of 'Five' books. 'There!' she said. 'Everything tidy! If our mothers came and looked in they would be most astonished.' They all laughed. They went out of the cave, and Peter pulled the green curtain carefully across. Then off they went home. 'Same time tomorrow!' called Peter, when they all said goodbye to him and Janet and Scamper at his front gate. 'No! You've forgotten – we're all going to bike over to Penton and see the circus come through,' said Colin. 'We're meeting at eleven at my house.' 'Oh, yes, how could I forget?' said Peter. 'We'll go to the cave after dinner tomorrow afternoon.' Next day they had a good morning,

男孩们把垃圾收集起来，放进一个袋子里带回家。 然后珍妮特把剩下的食物放回架子上，整理科林的那套“五本”书。 “有!她说。“一切整洁!如果我们的母亲来看看，她们会大吃一惊的。”他们都笑了。 他们走出山洞，彼得小心翼翼地拉上绿色的帘子。 然后他们就回家了。“明天同一时间！”彼得喊道，这时他们都在他的前门向他、珍妮特和斯坎普道别。 “不!“你忘了——我们都要骑车去本顿，看马戏表演。”科林说。 “我们11点在我家见面。“哦，是的，我怎么会忘记呢？”彼得说。 “我们明天下午吃完晚饭就去山洞。”第二天早上他们过得很愉快，

watching the long circus procession passing through the little town of Penton. Then they biked back for their dinners, and, at various times, set off to the cave. Pam and Barbara arrived first, Pam was very pleased because her granny had given her a tin of peppermints for the Secret Seven to enjoy. 'I'll put them beside the other tins,' she said. 'Hallo– look, Barbara, there's a tin on the floor of the cave. Who do you suppose knocked that down? We're the first here today!' 'Perhaps it overbalanced,' said Barbara. 'And gosh, look – we left a whole bar of chocolate, a very big one, just here,' said Pam. 'I put it there myself. That's gone!' 'It's probably somewhere else,' said Barbara. Then she herself noticed something. 'Gosh, look – three of our cushions are missing! Has somebody been here?' 'It's Susie,' said Pam frowning.

看着长长的马戏团游行队伍穿过彭顿小镇。 然后他们骑车回去吃晚饭，并在不同的时间出发去山洞。 帕姆和芭芭拉先到了，帕姆很高兴，因为她的奶奶给了她一罐薄荷糖，让七个人享用。 “我把它们放在其他罐头旁边，”她说。 “你好——看，芭芭拉，山洞的地板上有个铁罐。 你猜是谁把它打下来的？ 我们今天是第一个来的！“也许它失去平衡了，”芭芭拉说。 帕姆说：“天哪，看——我们留下了一整块巧克力，很大一块，就在这里。” “我自己放在那儿的。这是不见了!“可能在别的什么地方，”芭芭拉说。 然后她自己也注意到了一些事情。 “天哪，看——我们的三个靠垫不见了！”有人来过吗？“是苏西，”帕姆皱着眉头说。

it is. She didn't come with us to Penton today, so she must have come here instead! She has followed Jack sometime or other, and found out our meeting-place. Bother Susie!' 'Here are the others,' said Barbara. 'Let's tell them.' They heard the password being murmured outside the cave. 'Easter-egg' – then the curtain was pushed aside and in came Colin and George. 'Susie's been here!' said Pam angrily. 'Look, there are cushions missing, and our big bar of chocolate is gone, and a tin was on the ground.' 'And look, those currant buns we were saving for today are nearly all gone!' said Barbara, opening a tin. 'Would you believe it!' Soon Peter, Janet, and Jack arrived and were also told the news. 'But it needn't have been Susie,' said Peter, trying to be fair, though he felt perfectly certain it was. 'It could quite well

它是。她今天没有和我们一起去巴顿，所以她一定是来这里了！她不知什么时候跟踪过杰克，找到了我们见面的地点。 打扰苏茜!“这是其他的，”芭芭拉说。 “我们告诉他们吧。”他们听见有人在洞外低声说出密码。 “复活节彩蛋”——然后窗帘被拉开了，科林和乔治走了进来。 “苏西来过这里！”潘生气地说。 “看，坐垫不见了，我们的大巧克力块不见了，地上还有一个罐头。“瞧，我们为今天留的葡萄干面包快吃光了！”芭芭拉说着打开了一个罐头。 “你信不信！”不久，彼得、珍妮特和杰克也到了，也被告知了这个消息。 “但那不一定是苏西。”彼得说，尽量公平一点，尽管他完全肯定是苏西。 “很有可能

have been a tramp.' 'He'd have taken lots more things,' said Pam. 'And what would he want with cushions! We might meet him down a lane carrying them, and we'd know he was the thief at once. No tramp would be as silly as that.' 'That's true,' said Peter. 'Well, Jack, you'll have to find out if it's Susie.' 'All right,' said Jack, looking troubled. 'I'll go now. But somehow I don't think it is Susie, you know. I can't help remembering that person, whoever it was, that I saw slipping into the cave yesterday.' Jack went off to find Susie. The others each took a peppermint from the tin that Pam offered them, and settled down to read. Colin finished his book and went to get another. He gave an exclamation. 'One of my "Famous Five" books has gone! Has anyone borrowed it? It's Five Go Down to the Sea.'

我曾经是个流浪汉。“他会拿走更多的东西，”帕姆说。 “他要靠垫干什么！”我们也许会在一条小路上遇到他，手里拿着这些东西，我们就会立刻知道他就是那个小偷。 没有哪个流浪汉会这么傻。“没错，”彼得说。 “好吧，杰克，你得弄清楚是不是苏西。“好吧，”杰克说，显得有些不安。 “我现在就走。但不知怎么的，我觉得不是苏西。 我禁不住想起了昨天我看见溜进山洞的那个人，不管他是谁。”杰克去找苏西了。 其他人每人从帕姆递给他们的罐头里拿了一块薄荷糖，然后坐下来看书。 科林读完了他的书，又去拿了一本。 他叫了一声。“我的五本名著中的一本不见了！”有人借过吗？ 是《五次下海》。”

Nobody had. 'I know it's not Jack,' said Colin. 'He's just finished reading it. Well, if that's Susie again I'll have something to say to her!' Jack came back in about an hour. 'Easter-egg' he said, outside the cave, and Peter called him in. 'Well,' he said, throwing himself down on the sandy floor. 'I've had an awful time. Susie says she's never been near our new meeting-place, she says she doesn't even know where it is! She flew into such a temper when I accused her of coming and taking things, that Mother heard her, and came to see what was the matter.' 'Oh, bother!' said Peter. 'You might have kept your mother out of this. What happened next?' 'Mother made me tell where our meeting-place is,' said poor Jack, looking really miserable. 'I couldn't help it, Peter, really I

没有人。“我知道不是杰克。”柯林说。 “他刚刚读完。 好吧，如果又是苏西的话，我就有话对她说了！”杰克大约一小时后回来了。 “复活节彩蛋。”他在洞外说。彼得把他叫了进来。 “好吧，”他说着，扑倒在沙地上。 “我过得很糟糕。苏茜说她从来没有到过我们新的见面地点附近，她说她甚至不知道在哪里！当我指责她来拿东西时，她勃然大怒，妈妈听到了，就过来看看是怎么回事。“噢，真讨厌！”彼得说。 “你本可以让你母亲远离这件事的。 接下来发生了什么？“妈妈让我告诉他我们见面的地点，”可怜的杰克说，看上去很痛苦。 “我没办法，彼得，真的