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儿童英语读物 The Mystery Bookstore Chapter 7 A Suspect Turns Up

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“Wake up sleepyheads!” Jessie said the next morning. Jessie tickled1 Violet’s and Benny’s feet.

“Stop it, Watch,” Violet mumbled2. Still dreaming, she thought she was back in Greenfield where the family dog, Watch, liked to wake up the children one by one.

Jessie laughed. “It’s me, not Watch, silly. No wonder you’re both so tired. I heard one of you get up during the night.”

Violet finally opened her eyes. She pulled the covers over her head to keep out the light. “That was Benny who got up.”

“Did not,” Benny protested.

“Did too,” Violet said.

Violet sat up on her cot. “Then I guess you were sleepwalking. I heard you.”

Benny had no idea what Violet was talking about. “I didn’t get up. But I think I heard somebody, too. Maybe it was Henry.”

“It wasn’t me,” Henry said. “I slept like a rock last night.”

“We better hurry up and get ready,” Jessie said. “Mr. Bindry will arrive any minute to finish pricing the books. And the painters are coming today.”

“Can we go down to the shop right now?” Benny asked. “Maybe somebody left footprints or fingerprints3 in the baby powder or dropped some of those pieces of paper we hid all over the place.”

Henry said, “I’ve already checked the shop. If anybody was snooping there last night, they didn’t walk on the floor or touch anything. The only prints down there now are the ones we made last night.”

“Darn!” Benny said.

Henry had another idea. “Don’t be too disappointed, we can try some other detective tricks. How would you like to shadow any suspicious4 people we see today?”

Benny liked this new idea very much. “Like they do in Miss Chase’s books? Goody!”

Jessie laughed. “That’s if we can find someone to follow, Benny. Now shadow me out to the kitchen for breakfast.”

Jessie and Benny played a tracking game, but it didn’t go very well. Benny tried to follow his sister down the long apartment hallway. But whenever Jessie turned around, Benny bumped6 smack7 into her!

“What are you children laughing about so early in the morning?” Miss Chase asked.

Jessie could hardly stop giggling8. “Benny’s trying to shadow me, but he keeps bumping9 into me instead.”

“Well, shadows are attached to people, so that’s why I stayed close to Jessie,” Benny said. “Anyway, we’re going to follow any suspicious people we see. Maybe one of them is the person who ran down the street last night!”

Miss Chase loved Benny’s plan. “Well, let me give you a few tracking tips. First off, you don’t want to stay so close to the person that you bump5 into them! Just tiptoe a few feet behind or nearby, not too close and not too far.”

“What if the suspect sees me?” Benny wanted to know.

“You can pretend to be doing something else,” Jessie said. “Tying your shoe or something like that.”

Miss Chase looked very pleased. “You children seem to know my books inside out. I’m sure if anyone is up to something around the Aldens, he or she won’t get away with it for long. You’ve learned all my little mystery tricks. Now all you need is a suspect.”

“Speaking of suspects, Miss Chase,” Jessie said, “we suspect someone was following us around yesterday when we went sightseeing. Let me get my backpack, and I’ll show you what I’m talking about.”

Jessie ran back to the sleeping porch10. As she was leaving, she saw someone in the courtyard. It was Mr. Bindry.

“Good morning, Mr. Bindry,” Jessie cried out in her friendliest voice. “My brothers and sister and I will be right down in a minute to help you out.”

She waved at Mr. Bindry, but he wasn’t in a waving mood.

“He’s always so crabby,” Jessie said to herself as she walked back to the kitchen. “He even pretended not to see me!”

“So let’s see what you children were up to in New Orleans yesterday,” Miss Chase said when Jessie spread out her photos on the table. “Ah, what a nice shot of the Café du Monde! All that’s missing are the beignets.”

“That’s because we ate them all,” Benny said proudly.

Miss Chase picked up another photo. “I see you visited the cemetery11.”

“And you know what?” Violet asked in a quiet voice. “We saw a funeral procession. And a small band playing music. People waved to us to walk behind the band in the procession, too. Isn’t that strange?”

“No,” Miss Chase explained, “people down here find the music and the funeral processions a comfort to them when a person dies. It’s okay for strangers to join them.”

Miss Chase went through Jessie’s photos one by one. Suddenly she was perfectly12 still.

“Is something the matter, Miss Chase?” Violet asked.

Miss Chase said, “I just noticed something strange about these pictures, that’s all.”

Benny could sit quiet no longer. “I know! I know! You saw Mr. Phillips, too! That’s what we saw when we looked at all the pictures together.”

“You children are even better detectives than I thought,” Miss Chase said. “Wait just a second.”

Miss Chase went out to the living room and pulled out something from her desk. When she came back to the kitchen table, she had a large magnifying13 glass in her hand. “Let’s get a closer look.”

“Now there’s no mistaking that this is Mr. Phillips,” Henry said when he looked through the magnifying glass.

“The question is, why was Rex Phillips following you?” Miss Chase asked. “Did he come up to you at all, wave, or say anything?”

Jessie shook her head. “We were so busy having a good time, we didn’t notice him at all until we looked at the pictures. The only person we ran into that we knew was Sarah.”

“Sarah Deckle?” Miss Chase cried. “Where did you see her?”

“Near Jackson Square,” Jessie explained. “It was kind of strange, too. I put down my backpack on a bench so I could read my map, and my backpack disappeared.”

Henry broke in. “Then we saw Sarah Deckle walking up ahead with Jessie’s backpack. She said she was on her way to the Lost and Found to turn it in.”

“And you know what?” Benny asked. “She didn’t even seem glad that Jessie turned up.”

Miss Chase took off her glasses and seemedto be thinking. Finally, she spoke14 up. “Was everything there when you got it back from Miss Deckle?”

“Yes,” Jessie said. “Kleenex, a small Thermos15, my camera, my wallet, and Violet’s Little Mermaid16 book. She’d brought it along to read. . . .”

Suddenly Violet said, “I’m going to put The Little Mermaid back with the other books.” Violet ran up to the sleeping porch.

She was back in a couple of minutes. “The rest of the fairy tales are missing!” Violet cried out.

“When was the last time you saw them?” Miss Chase asked the children.

“I don’t remember,” Jessie said.

“I’m not sure either,” Violet added. “I gave Jessie The Little Mermaid to bring along whenwe went out yesterday. I put the rest of the set by my bed. But I can’t remember when I last saw them on the night table.”

“You mean they disappeared last night?” Henry asked.

Benny crinkled his forehead. “Or maybe while we were having breakfast this morning.”

Jessie thought of something else. She leaned over the balcony. “Mr. Bindry, Mr. Bindry,” she called down.

“Why are you calling Mr. Bindry?” Benny asked.

“He was here just a few minutes ago,” Jessie answered. “Maybe he saw someone come up the stairs to the sleeping porch.”

“Or maybe,” Henry said in a low voice, “Mr. Bindry was the someone who came up to the sleeping porch.”

“Guess what?” Benny asked. “Now we have a suspect.”


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1 tickled 2db1470d48948f1aa50b3cf234843b26     
(使)发痒( tickle的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)愉快,逗乐
参考例句:
  • We were tickled pink to see our friends on television. 在电视中看到我们的一些朋友,我们高兴极了。
  • I tickled the baby's feet and made her laugh. 我胳肢孩子的脚,使她发笑。
2 mumbled 3855fd60b1f055fa928ebec8bcf3f539     
含糊地说某事,叽咕,咕哝( mumble的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He mumbled something to me which I did not quite catch. 他对我叽咕了几句话,可我没太听清楚。
  • George mumbled incoherently to himself. 乔治语无伦次地喃喃自语。
3 fingerprints 9b456c81cc868e5bdf3958245615450b     
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 suspicious DrLw1     
adj.可疑的,容易引起怀疑的,猜疑的,疑心的
参考例句:
  • A man was hanging about the house in a suspicious manner.一个男人在房子周围可疑地荡来荡去。
  • He's so suspicious he would distrust his own mother.他这个人疑心太重,连自己的母亲也不相信。
5 bump rWUzQ     
v.(against,into)碰,颠簸;n.碰撞,隆起物
参考例句:
  • I heard a bump in the next room.我听到隔壁房间传来“砰”的一声。
  • He got a bad bump on his forehead.他碰得前额隆起一个大包。
6 bumped 18898e46b2206e762fa80608d68ebdd5     
凸起的,凸状的
参考例句:
  • In the dark I bumped into a chair. 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。
  • I bumped against an old friend in town today. 我今天在城里偶然碰见了一个老朋友。
7 smack XEqzV     
vt.拍,打,掴;咂嘴;vi.含有…意味;n.拍
参考例句:
  • She gave him a smack on the face.她打了他一个嘴巴。
  • I gave the fly a smack with the magazine.我用杂志拍了一下苍蝇。
8 giggling 2712674ae81ec7e853724ef7e8c53df1     
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • We just sat there giggling like naughty schoolchildren. 我们只是坐在那儿像调皮的小学生一样的咯咯地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I can't stand her giggling, she's so silly. 她吃吃地笑,叫我真受不了,那样子傻透了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
9 bumping b75f677204f9b0bc21b088f2ccdfe89b     
爆沸; 突沸; 放气; 崩沸
参考例句:
  • The circulation of the magazine has been bumping along for some time at around 30, 000. 一段时间以来,杂志的销量一直在三万份上下摇摆。
  • "Yes, "and shipped his oars without bumping the boat. "来啦,"说着从桨架上取下双桨,没有让船颠簸一下。
10 porch ju9yM     
n.门廊,入口处,走廊,游廊
参考例句:
  • There are thousands of pages of advertising on our porch.有成千上万页广告堆在我们的门廊上。
  • The porch is supported by six immense pillars.门廊由六根大柱子支撑着。
11 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
参考例句:
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
12 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
13 magnifying 034e3f0a47b1b761a42e4e7bb21d3b80     
放大的
参考例句:
  • Fame is a magnifying-glass. 名誉是放大镜。
  • It is unusual for people to press their differences by magnifying them. 对人们来说,以夸大差异的方式强调差异是不正常的。
14 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
15 thermos TqjyE     
n.保湿瓶,热水瓶
参考例句:
  • Can I borrow your thermos?我可以借用你的暖水瓶吗?
  • It's handy to have the thermos here.暖瓶放在这儿好拿。
16 mermaid pCbxH     
n.美人鱼
参考例句:
  • How popular would that girl be with the only mermaid mom!和人鱼妈妈在一起,那个女孩会有多受欢迎!
  • The little mermaid wasn't happy because she didn't want to wait.小美人鱼不太高兴,因为她等不及了。
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