Chapter 16

ChAPTER SIXTEEN Kate's stomach swooped as the lift jolted to a stop. "Sorry, Dad!" she shouted over her shoulder as she ran into the Darkroom. "This shouldn't take long!" "Oh, don't worry, my sweet!" Dad beamed. "Go and give Figgy a piece of your mind! I think I'll go visit Hank for another tutorial in architectural engineering..."

第十六章 电梯猛地停住时，凯特的胃猛地一沉。 “对不起，爸爸！” 她边喊边回头，一头冲进了暗房。 “不会耽误太久的！” “噢，别担心，我的小宝贝！” 爸爸笑盈盈的。 “去跟菲吉好好理论理论！ 我正好去找汉克，再上一堂建筑工程的辅导课……”

"Penny!" called Kate, spotting the strange woman in the darkness. We've got some real evidence for you!" She thrust the paper across the worktop. "Look at the stamp!" Penny bent over the paper until her nose was touching it and flicked a switch on her goggles. "These additional marks were made by a sixty-year-old fountain pen and drawn with a left hand." "You're missing the point, said Kate. "Think of the bigger picture- they're Figgy's initials!" Penny gasped and ripped off her goggles, before remembering she was standing in pitch blackness and quickly putting them back on again.

“潘妮！”凯特喊道，她在黑暗里瞧见了那个陌生女人。 我们找到能给你看的真凭实据啦！ 她把那张纸猛地推到工作台对面。 “你看这个印章！” 潘妮弯腰凑近那张纸，鼻子都快贴到纸上了，还按了一下护目镜上的开关。 “这些额外的痕迹是一支有六十年历史的钢笔写的，而且是左手写的。” “你没抓着重点，”凯特说。 往大了想啊——这是菲吉的姓名首字母！ 潘妮倒抽一口冷气，一把扯下护目镜，才想起自己站在一片漆黑里，又赶紧把护目镜戴了回去。

"She's been sending the tampered-with newspaper to Johannes from the very top of the building!" continued Kate. "I bet you anything she was the one meddling in here... but what was she doing?" Kate looked around searching for anything that might point to Figgy. Her eyes fell on a fruit bowl. "Penny," she asked slowly, "what do you do with your banana peels when you've finished with them?" "I put them in the rubbish chute, said Penny, pointing over to the network of chutes lining the wall. Kate sprinted over. It couldn't be that Penny was getting them confused- no, she'd been doing this job for years- and

“她一直在大楼顶层，把篡改过的报纸寄给约翰内斯！”凯特接着说。 “我敢打包票，之前在这里乱翻的人就是她……可她到底在做什么呢？” 凯特环顾四周，想找找任何能指向菲吉的线索。 她的目光落在了一个水果碗上。 “潘妮，”她慢悠悠地问，“你吃完香蕉之后，香蕉皮都会怎么处理呀？” “我会扔进垃圾通道呀，”潘妮一边说，一边指着墙边排成一排的通道网络。 凯特飞奔过去。 潘妮不可能搞混这些通道的——不可能，她做这份工作都好多年了——而且

she had put Rupert into the correct chute The only explanation was... Kate peeled back the label marked To Johannes and, for the second time in ten minutes, gasped. There was another label underneath. Another label marked Bin. "She swapped them!" cried Kate. "That's what she was doing when she was meddling in here- swapping the chute labels so that Penny's garbage gets tipped straight into Johannes, and the perfect copy shoots straight into the bin."

她之前明明把鲁伯特放进了正确的通道。唯一的解释就是…… 凯特撕掉标着“寄给约翰内斯”的标签，十分钟内第二次倒抽了一口冷气。 标签下面还有另一张标签。 那张标签标着“垃圾桶”。 “她把标签换了！” 凯特喊道。 “之前她在这里乱翻就是在干这个——把通道的标签调换，这样潘妮要扔的垃圾就直接进到寄给约翰内斯的通道里，而完好的报纸副本就直接进了垃圾桶。”

"Which is how I ended up there!" said Rupert, waving his tail excitedly. "She's sending a tampered copy straight from the top, stamped with her altered initials!" But what about the missing picture of Frances?" said Rupert. Why would she take that?" "Because she's family!" said Kate. "Figgy's perfectly happy to sabotage everyone's career- her own included- but she draws the line at Frances. She probably kept the photo, knowing it would end up in the bin otherwise? She paused, noticing Penny was looking at them, her mouth wide open.

“所以我才会被送到那里啊！”鲁伯特说着，兴奋地晃着尾巴。 “她从顶层直接寄出篡改过的报纸，上面还盖着她改过的首字母印章！” “可那张失踪的弗朗西斯的照片是怎么回事？”鲁伯特说。 她为什么要拿走那张照片呀？ “因为她是家人啊！”凯特说。 “菲吉完全不在乎毁掉所有人的事业——包括她自己的——但她对弗朗西斯是有底线的。 她大概率把照片收起来了，知道不然照片最后就会被扔进垃圾桶，对吧？ 她顿了顿，才注意到潘妮正看着她们，嘴张得老大。

"How are you doing this? All this "seeing things that aren't there"?" she asked faintly. "It's called Special Correspondent-ing, said Kate, standing up a little taller. "And it's our job." "It's very impressive, said Penny. "Let me try. She cleared her throat. "Why would Figgy do this?" "That's our next job, said Rupert, hopping up Kate's arm. "We've got to be absolutely sure this time, said Kate. "And I know exactly where we have to go to find out."

“你们是怎么做到的呀？ 居然能发现这些‘本来没人会注意到的事’？”她有气无力地问。 “这叫特别通讯员的本事，”凯特说着，微微站直了身子。 “这就是我们的工作。” “太厉害了，”潘妮说。 “我也来试试推理看看。 她清了清嗓子。 “菲吉为什么要这么做呀？” “这就是我们接下来的任务了，”鲁伯特说着，蹦到了凯特的胳膊上。 “这次我们一定要拿到十足的证据，”凯特说。 “而且我清清楚楚地知道，我们该去哪里找答案。”