湯姆.索亞歷險記

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

   第三十三章

   CHAPTER XXXIII

   幾分鐘內,消息傳開了,十幾隻小艇裝滿人往麥克道格拉斯山洞划去,渡船也滿載着乘客隨後而去。湯姆·索亞和撒切爾法官同乘一條小艇。

   WITHIN a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal's cave, and the ferryboat, well filled with passengers, soon followed. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.

   洞口的鎖被打開,暗淡的光線下顯現出一幅慘兮兮的景象。印第安·喬躺在地上,四肢伸直死了。他的臉離門縫很近,看上去好像在那最後一刻,企盼的眼神死盯着外面的光明和那自由自在的歡樂世界。湯姆受到了震動,因為他親身在洞中獃過,所以能理解這個傢伙當時的苦楚。他動了惻隱之心,但不管怎麼說他覺得現在十分地快慰和安全,這一點他以前從沒有體會到。自打他做證,證明那個流浪漢的罪行之後,他心頭一直有種沉重的恐懼感。

   When the cave door was unlocked, a sorrowful sight presented itself in the dim twilight of the place. Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground, dead, with his face close to the crack of the door, as if his longing eyes had been fixed, to the latest moment, upon the light and the cheer of the free world outside. Tom was touched, for he knew by his own experience how this wretch had suffered. His pity was moved, but nevertheless he felt an abounding sense of relief and security, now, which revealed to him in a degree which he had not fully appreciated before how vast a weight of dread had been lying upon him since the day he lifted his voice against this bloody-minded outcast.

   印第安·喬的那把獵刀還在他身邊,刀刃已裂成兩半。他死前拚命用刀砍過那門下面的大橫木,鑿穿了個缺口,可是這沒有用,外面的石頭天然地形成了一個門框,用刀砍這樣堅固的門框,簡直是鷄蛋碰石頭,根本不起作用,相反刀倒被砍得不成形了。就算沒有石頭,印第安·喬也是白費氣力,他可以砍斷大橫木,但要想從門下面鑽出來也是不可能的,他自己也明白這一點。他砍大橫木,只是為了找點事干,為了打發那煩人的時光,以便有所寄託。往常,人們可以找到五六截遊客們插在縫隙間的蠟燭頭,可是這一次一截也沒有,因為這個被困的傢伙把所有的蠟燭頭都找出來吃掉了。他還設法捉到幾隻蝙蝠,除了爪子外全吃掉了。這個可憐而又不幸的傢伙最後是餓死的。不遠處有個石筍,已有些年月,它是由頭頂上的鐘乳石滴水所形成的。他把石筍弄斷後,把一塊石頭放在石筍墩上,鑿出一個淺窩來接每隔三分鐘才滴下來一滴寶貴的水。水滴聲像鐘錶一般有規律,令人煩悶,一天一夜下來才能接滿一湯匙。自金字塔剛出現,這水就在滴;特洛伊城陷落時;羅馬城剛建立時;基督被釘上十字架時;征服者威廉大帝創建英國時;航海家哥倫布出航時;萊剋星屯大屠殺鮮為人知時;那水就一直在滴個不停。

   Injun Joe's bowie-knife lay close by, its blade broken in two. The great foundation-beam of the door had been chipped and hacked through, with tedious labor; useless labor, too, it was, for the native rock formed a sill outside it, and upon that stubborn material the knife had wrought no effect; the only damage done was to the knife itself. But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still, for if the beam had been wholly cut away Injun Joe could not have squeezed his body under the door, and he knew it. So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something--in order to pass the weary time--in order to employ his tortured faculties. Ordinarily one could find half a dozen bits of candle stuck around in the crevices of this vestibule, left there by tourists; but there were none now. The prisoner had searched them out and eaten them. He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws. The poor unfortunate had starved to death. In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead. The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick--a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. That drop was falling when the Pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid; when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was "news."

   現在它還在滴,即使等一切隨着歷史成為煙消雲散,而後被人遺忘,它還會滴淌下去。世間萬物是不是都有目的,負有使命呢?這滴水五千年來默默地流淌不斷,是不是專為這個可憐虫準備的呢?它是不是還有另外重要的目的,再流它個一萬年呢?這沒什麼要緊的。在那個倒霉的混血兒用石頭窩接那寶貴的水之前,已過去了若干年。可是如今的遊客來麥克道格拉斯山洞觀光時,會長時駐足,盯着那塊令人傷心的石頭和緩緩而下的水滴,印第安·喬的“杯子”在山洞奇觀中格外突出,連“阿拉丁宮殿”也比不上它。

   It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion. Has everything a purpose and a mission? Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect's need? and has it another important object to accomplish ten thousand years to come? No matter. It is many and many a year since the hapless half-breed scooped out the stone to catch the priceless drops, but to this day the tourist stares longest at that pathetic stone and that slow-dropping water when he comes to see the wonders of McDougal's cave. Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it.

   印第安·喬被埋在山洞口附近。城裡、鄉下周圍七里內的人都乘船或馬車成群結隊地來到這裡。他們領着孩子,帶來各種食物,都表示看到埋葬喬和看他被絞死差不多一樣開心。

   Injun Joe was buried near the mouth of the cave; and people flocked there in boats and wagons from the towns and from all the farms and hamlets for seven miles around; they brought their children, and all sorts of provisions, and confessed that they had had almost as satisfactory a time at the funeral as they could have had at the hanging.

   這件事過後人們不再向州長提赦免印第安·喬的事了。許多人都在請願書上簽了名,還開過許多聲一把淚一把的會議,選了一群軟心腸的婦女組成請願團,身穿喪服到州長那裡哭訴,請求他大發仁慈之心,別管自己的職責要求。據說印第安·喬手裡有五條人命案,可那又怎麼樣呢?就算他是魔鬼撒旦,也還會有一幫糊塗蛋願在請願書上劃押,並且從他們那永遠沒修好的“自來水龍頭”裡滴出淚水來灑在請願書上。

   This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing--the petition to the governor for Injun Joe's pardon. The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon-petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky water-works.

   埋了喬後的那天早晨,湯姆把哈克叫到一個無人的地方,跟他說件重要的事情。此時哈克從威爾斯曼和道格拉斯寡婦那裡知道了湯姆歷險的經過。可湯姆卻說,他覺得他們有一件事沒跟哈克說,這正是他現在要講的。哈克臉色陰沉地說:

   The morning after the funeral Tom took Huck to a private place to have an important talk. Huck had learned all about Tom's adventure from the Welshman and the Widow Douglas, by this time, but Tom said he reckoned there was one thing they had not told him; that thing was what he wanted to talk about now. Huck's face saddened. He said:

   “我知道是什麼,你進了二號,除威士忌外,你別的什麼東西也沒找到。雖然沒人說是你干的,可我一聽到威土忌那樁事,就知道一定是你干的,你沒搞到錢,要不然的話,你早就跟我一人說了。湯姆,我總覺得,我們永遠也得不到那份財寶。”

   "I know what it is. You got into No. 2 and never found anything but whiskey. Nobody told me it was you; but I just knowed it must 'a' ben you, soon as I heard 'bout that whiskey business; and I knowed you hadn't got the money becuz you'd 'a' got at me some way or other and told me even if you was mum to everybody else. Tom, something's always told me we'd never get holt of that swag."

   “我說哈克,我從來也沒有告發客棧老闆,星期六我去野餐時,客棧不是好好的嗎?這你是知道的。你忘了嗎,那天晚上該你去守夜。”

   "Why, Huck, I never told on that tavern-keeper. You know his tavern was all right the Saturday I went to the picnic. Don't you remember you was to watch there that night?"

   “噢,對了!怎麼覺得好像是一年前的事情了。正是那天晚上,我跟在印第安·喬後面,一直跟到寡婦家。”

   "Oh yes! Why, it seems 'bout a year ago. It was that very night that I follered Injun Joe to the widder's."

   “原來是你跟在他後面呀!”

   "You followed him?"

   “是我,可別聲張出去。我想印第安·喬還有朋友,我不想讓他們來整我,要不是我,他這回準到了德克薩斯州,準沒錯。”

   "Yes--but you keep mum. I reckon Injun Joe's left friends behind him, and I don't want 'em souring on me and doing me mean tricks. If it hadn't ben for me he'd be down in Texas now, all right."

   於是哈克像知己般地把他的全部歷險經過告訴了湯姆。

   Then Huck told his entire adventure in confidence to Tom, who had only heard of the Welshman's part of it before.

   在這之前,湯姆只聽說過有關威爾斯曼的事情。“喂,”哈克接着回到老話題說,“哪個搞到威土忌,那錢也就落在他手裡。反正沒我倆的份。”

   "Well," said Huck, presently, coming back to the main question, "whoever nipped the whiskey in No. 2, nipped the money, too, I reckon--anyways it's a goner for us, Tom."

   “哈克,那財寶根本就不在二號裡!”

   "Huck, that money wasn't ever in No. 2!"

   “你說什麼?”哈克仔細打量着同伴的臉。“湯姆,難道你又有了新線索?”

   "What!" Huck searched his comrade's face keenly. "Tom, have you got on the track of that money again?"

   “哈克,它就在洞裡呀!”

   "Huck, it's in the cave!"

   哈克的眼睛閃閃發光。

   Huck's eyes blazed.

   “再說一遍聽聽,湯姆。”

   "Say it again, Tom."

   “錢在洞裡!”

   "The money's in the cave!"

   “湯姆,你是開玩笑,還是說真格的?”

   "Tom--honest injun, now--is it fun, or earnest?"

   “當然是真格的,我一直都是這樣。你跟我去,把它弄出來好嗎?”

   "Earnest, Huck--just as earnest as ever I was in my life. Will you go in there with me and help get it out?"

   “發個誓!只要我們能作記號,找到回來的路,我就跟你去。”

   "I bet I will! I will if it's where we can blaze our way to it and not get lost."

   “哈克,這次進洞,不會遇到任何麻煩事。”

   "Huck, we can do that without the least little bit of trouble in the world."

   “棒極了,你怎麼想到錢在——”

   "Good as wheat! What makes you think the money's--"

   “哈克,別急,進去就知道了,要是拿不到錢,我願把我的小鼓,還有別的東西全都給你,決不失言。”

   "Huck, you just wait till we get in there. If we don't find it I'll agree to give you my drum and every thing I've got in the world. I will, by jings."

   “好,一言為定。你說什麼時候動身吧。”

   "All right--it's a whiz. When do you say?"

   “馬上就去,你看呢?你身體行嗎?”

   "Right now, if you say it. Are you strong enough?"

   “要進到很深的地方嗎?我恢復得已經有三四天了,不過最遠只能走一英里,湯姆,至少我覺得是這樣。”

   "Is it far in the cave? I ben on my pins a little, three or four days, now, but I can't walk more'n a mile, Tom--least I don't think I could."

   “哈克,別人進洞得走五英里,可有條近路只有我一人知道。哈克,我馬上帶你劃小船過去。我讓它浮在那兒,回來時我自己划船,根本不用你動手。”

   "It's about five mile into there the way anybody but me would go, Huck, but there's a mighty short cut that they don't anybody but me know about. Huck, I'll take you right to it in a skiff. I'll float the skiff down there, and I'll pull it back again all by myself. You needn't ever turn your hand over."

   “湯姆,我們這就走吧!”

   "Less start right off, Tom."

   “行,我們得備點麵包、肉,還有煙斗、一兩隻小口袋、兩三根風箏綫,再帶點他們叫洋火的那玩意。上次在洞裡,好幾回我想要是有些洋火可能就好了。”

   "All right. We want some bread and meat, and our pipes, and a little bag or two, and two or three kite-strings, and some of these new-fangled things they call lucifer matches. I tell you, many's the time I wished I had some when I was in there before."

   中午稍過,兩個孩子乘人不在“借”了條船,就出發了。 在離“空心洞”還有幾英里的地方,湯姆說:

   A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent, and got under way at once. When they were several miles below "Cave Hollow," Tom said:

   “你瞧,這高崖從上往下一個樣:沒房子,沒鋸木廠,灌木叢都一樣。你再瞧那邊崩塌處有塊白色空地,那就是我們的記號之一。好了,現在該上岸了。”

   "Now you see this bluff here looks all alike all the way down from the cave hollow--no houses, no wood-yards, bushes all alike. But do you see that white place up yonder where there's been a landslide? Well, that's one of my marks. We'll get ashore, now."

   他們上了岸。

   They landed.

   “哈克,在這裡用釣魚竿就能夠到我鑽出來的洞,你肯定能找到洞口。”

   "Now, Huck, where we're a-standing you could touch that hole I got out of with a fishing-pole. See if you can find it."

   哈克到處找了找,沒找到什麼。湯姆很神氣地邁着大步走到一大堆綠樹叢旁說:

   Huck searched all the place about, and found nothing. Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of sumach bushes and said:

   “找到了!哈克,你瞧洞在這裡;這是最隱蔽的洞口,別對外人說。我早就想當強盜,知道需要這樣一個洞好藏身,可是到哪裡能碰到這樣理想的洞確實煩神,現在有了,但得保密,只能讓喬·哈帕和本·羅傑斯進洞,因為我們得結幫成伙,要不然就沒有派頭。湯姆·索亞這名子挺響的,是不是,哈克?”

   "Here you are! Look at it, Huck; it's the snuggest hole in this country. You just keep mum about it. All along I've been wanting to be a robber, but I knew I'd got to have a thing like this, and where to run across it was the bother. We've got it now, and we'll keep it quiet, only we'll let Joe Harper and Ben Rogers in--because of course there's got to be a Gang, or else there wouldn't be any style about it. Tom Sawyer's Gang--it sounds splendid, don't it, Huck?"

   “嗯,是挺響的,湯姆,搶誰呢?”

   "Well, it just does, Tom. And who'll we rob?"

   “遇誰搶誰吧,攔路搶劫——都是這樣幹的。”

   "Oh, most anybody. Waylay people--that's mostly the way."

   “還殺人嗎?”

   "And kill them?"

   “不,不總是殺人,把他們攆到洞裡,讓他們拿錢來贖?”

   "No, not always. Hive them in the cave till they raise a ransom."

   “什麼叫贖?”

   "What's a ransom?"

   “就是用錢來換人,叫他們把所有的錢統統拿出來。連朋友的錢也要弄來,若一年內不送上贖金,就放他們的血,通常就這麼幹。不過不要殺女人,只是把她們關起來就夠了。她們長得總是很漂亮,也有錢,但一被抓住就嚇得不行。你可以下她們的手錶,拿別的東西,但對待她們,你要摘帽以示有禮,不管讀什麼書,你都會知道強盜是最有禮貌的人。接下來就是女人漸漸地對你產生好感,在洞裡獃上一兩周後,她們也就不哭了,隨後你就是讓她們走,她們也不走。要是你把她們帶出去,她們會折回身,徑直返回來。所有的書上都是這麼描寫的。”

   "Money. You make them raise all they can, off'n their friends; and after you've kept them a year, if it ain't raised then you kill them. That's the general way. Only you don't kill the women. You shut up the women, but you don't kill them. They're always beautiful and rich, and awfully scared. You take their watches and things, but you always take your hat off and talk polite. They ain't anybody as polite as robbers--you'll see that in any book. Well, the women get to loving you, and after they've been in the cave a week or two weeks they stop crying and after that you couldn't get them to leave. If you drove them out they'd turn right around and come back. It's so in all the books."

   “哇,太棒了,湯姆,當強盜是比做海盜好。”

   "Why, it's real bully, Tom. I believe it's better'n to be a pirate."

   “的確有些好處,因為這樣離家近,看馬戲什麼的也方便。”

   "Yes, it's better in some ways, because it's close to home and circuses and all that."

   此刻,一切準備就緒,兩個孩子就開始鑽山洞。湯姆打頭裡走,他們好不容易走到通道的另一頭,然後繫緊捻好的風箏綫,又繼續往前走。沒有幾步路,他們來到泉水處,湯姆渾身一陣冷顫,他讓哈克看牆邊泥塊上的那截蠟燭芯,講述了他和貝基兩人當時看著蠟燭火光搖曳,直至最後熄滅時的心情。

   By this time everything was ready and the boys entered the hole, Tom in the lead. They toiled their way to the farther end of the tunnel, then made their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on. A few steps brought them to the spring, and Tom felt a shudder quiver all through him. He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire.

   洞裡死氣沉沉,靜得嚇人。兩個孩子開始壓低嗓門,低聲說話。他們再往前走,很快就鑽進了另一個道,一直來到那個低凹的地方,藉著燭光發現,這個地方不是懸崖,只是個二十英呎高的陡山坡,湯姆悄悄說:

   The boys began to quiet down to whispers, now, for the stillness and gloom of the place oppressed their spirits. They went on, and presently entered and followed Tom's other corridor until they reached the "jumping-off place." The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high. Tom whispered:

   “哈克,現在讓你瞧件東西。”

   "Now I'll show you something, Huck."

   他高高舉起蠟燭說:

   He held his candle aloft and said:

   “儘量朝拐角處看,看見了嗎?那邊——那邊的大石頭上——有蠟燭煙熏出來的記號。”

   "Look as far around the corner as you can. Do you see that? There--on the big rock over yonder--done with candle-smoke."

   “湯姆,我看那是十字!”

   "Tom, it's a cross!"

   “那麼你的二號呢?在十字架下,對嗎?哈克,我就是在那看見印第安·喬伸出蠟燭的!”

   "Now where's your Number Two? 'under the cross,' hey? Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!"

   哈克盯着那神秘的記號看了一陣,然後聲音顫抖地說:

   Huck stared at the mystic sign awhile, and then said with a shaky voice:

   “湯姆,咱們出去吧!”

   "Tom, less git out of here!"

   “什麼?出去?不要財寶啦。”

   "What! and leave the treasure?"

   “對,不要財寶啦。印第安·喬的鬼魂就在附近,肯定在。”

   "Yes--leave it. Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain."

   “不在這裡,哈克,一定不在這裡。在他死的地方,那洞口離這還有五英里遠。”

   "No it ain't, Huck, no it ain't. It would ha'nt the place where he died--away out at the mouth of the cave--five mile from here."

   “不,湯姆,它不在那裡,它就在錢附近,我曉得鬼的特性,這你也是知道的。”

   "No, Tom, it wouldn't. It would hang round the money. I know the ways of ghosts, and so do you."

   湯姆也動搖了,他擔心也許哈克說得對,他也滿腦的懷疑,但很快他有了個主意:

   Tom began to fear that Huck was right. Mis-givings gathered in his mind. But presently an idea occurred to him--

   “喂,哈克,我倆真是十足的大傻瓜。印第安·喬的鬼魂怎麼可能在有十字的地方遊蕩呢!”

   "Lookyhere, Huck, what fools we're making of ourselves! Injun Joe's ghost ain't a going to come around where there's a cross!"

   湯姆這下說到點子上啦,他的話果真起了作用。

   The point was well taken. It had its effect.

   “湯姆,我怎麼沒想到十字能避邪呢。我們真幸運,我們的好十字。我覺得我們該從那裡爬下去找那箱財寶。”

   "Tom, I didn't think of that. But that's so. It's luck for us, that cross is. I reckon we'll climb down there and have a hunt for that box."

   湯姆先下,邊往下走,邊打一些粗糙的腳蹬兒。哈克跟在後面,有大岩石的那個石洞分出四個叉道口。孩子查看了三個道口,結果一無所獲,在最靠近大石頭的道口裡,他們找到了一個小窩,裏邊有個鋪着毯子的地鋪,還有個舊弔籃,一塊燻肉皮,兩三塊啃得乾乾淨淨的鷄骨頭,可就是沒錢箱。兩個小傢伙一遍又一遍地到處找,可還是沒找到錢箱,於是湯姆說:

   Tom went first, cutting rude steps in the clay hill as he descended. Huck followed. Four avenues opened out of the small cavern which the great rock stood in. The boys examined three of them with no result. They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls. But there was no moneybox. The lads searched and researched this place, but in vain. Tom said:

   “他說是在十字下,你瞧,這不就是最靠近十字底下的地方嗎?不可能藏在石頭底下面吧,這下面一點縫隙也沒有。”

   "He said under the cross. Well, this comes nearest to being under the cross. It can't be under the rock itself, because that sets solid on the ground."

   他們又到四處找了一遍便灰心喪氣地坐下來。哈克一個主意也說不出來,最後還是湯姆開了口:

   They searched everywhere once more, and then sat down discouraged. Huck could suggest nothing. By-and-by Tom said:

   “喂,哈克,這塊石頭的一面泥土上有腳印和蠟燭油,另一面卻什麼也沒有。你想想,這是為什麼呢?我跟你打賭錢就在石頭下面,我要把它挖出來。”

   "Lookyhere, Huck, there's footprints and some candle-grease on the clay about one side of this rock, but not on the other sides. Now, what's that for? I bet you the money is under the rock. I'm going to dig in the clay."

   “想法不錯,湯姆!”哈克興奮地說道。

   "That ain't no bad notion, Tom!" said Huck with animation.

   湯姆立刻掏出正宗的巴羅刀,沒挖到四英吋深就碰到了木頭。

   Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood.

   “嘿,哈克,聽到木頭的聲音了嗎?”

   "Hey, Huck!--you hear that?"

   哈克也開始挖,不一會工夫,他們把露出的木板移走,這時出現了一個通往岩石下的天然裂口。湯姆舉着蠟燭鑽了進去。湯姆說他看不到裂口盡頭處,想進去看看,於是彎着腰穿過裂口。路越來越窄,漸漸地往下通去。他先是右,然後是左,曲曲彎彎地沿著通道往前走,哈克跟在湯姆後面。後來湯姆進了一段弧形通道,不久就大聲叫道:

   Huck began to dig and scratch now. Some boards were soon uncovered and removed. They had concealed a natural chasm which led under the rock. Tom got into this and held his candle as far under the rock as he could, but said he could not see to the end of the rift. He proposed to explore. He stooped and passed under; the narrow way descended gradually. He followed its winding course, first to the right, then to the left, Huck at his heels. Tom turned a short curve, by-and-by, and exclaimed:

   “老天爺啊,哈克,你看這是什麼?”

   "My goodness, Huck, lookyhere!"

   是寶箱,千真萬確,它藏在一個小石窟裡,旁邊有個空彈葯桶,兩隻裝在皮套裡的槍,兩三雙舊皮鞋,一條皮帶,另外還有些被水浸得濕漉漉的破爛東西。

   It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip.

   “財寶終於找到了!”哈克邊說,邊用手抓起一把變色的錢幣。“湯姆,這下我們發財了。”

   "Got it at last!" said Huck, ploughing among the tarnished coins with his hand. "My, but we're rich, Tom!"

   “哈克,我總覺得我們會找到的,真難以令人相信,不過財寶確實到手了!喂,別傻獃在這兒,把它拖出去,我來試試看,能不能搬動。”

   "Huck, I always reckoned we'd get it. It's just too good to believe, but we have got it, sure! Say--let's not fool around here. Let's snake it out. Lemme see if I can lift the box."

   箱子重有五十磅。湯姆費了好大的勁才把它提起來,可提着走卻很吃力。

   It weighed about fifty pounds. Tom could lift it, after an awkward fashion, but could not carry it conveniently.

   “我早就猜對了,”他說,“那天在閙鬼的房間裡,他們拿箱子時,樣子也是十分吃力,我看出來了,帶來的這些小布袋子正好用上。”

   "I thought so," he said; "They carried it like it was heavy, that day at the ha'nted house. I noticed that. I reckon I was right to think of fetching the little bags along."

   錢很快被裝進小袋子裡,孩子們把它搬上去拿到十字岩石旁。

   The money was soon in the bags and the boys took it up to the cross rock.

   “我現在去拿槍和別的東西,”哈克說。

   "Now less fetch the guns and things," said Huck.

   “別去拿,別動那些東西,我們以後當強盜會用得着那些東西,現在就放在那裡。我們還要在那裡聚會,痛飲一番,那可是個難得的好地方。”

   "No, Huck--leave them there. They're just the tricks to have when we go to robbing. We'll keep them there all the time, and we'll hold our orgies there, too. It's an awful snug place for orgies."

   “什麼叫痛飲一番?”

   "What orgies?"

   “我也不知道,不過強盜們總是聚會痛飲,我們當然也要這樣做。快走,哈克,我們在這裡獃的時間太長了,現在不早了,我也餓了,等到船上就可以吃東西,抽香煙。”

   "I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too. Come along, Huck, we've been in here a long time. It's getting late, I reckon. I'm hungry, too. We'll eat and smoke when we get to the skiff."

   不久他倆出來後鑽進了綠樹林,警惕地觀察四周,發現岸邊沒人,就開始上船吃起飯,抽起煙來。 太陽快接近地平綫時,他們撐起船離岸而去,黃昏中湯姆沿岸邊劃了很長時間,邊劃邊興高采烈地和哈克聊天,天剛黑他倆就上了岸。

   They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff. As the sun dipped toward the horizon they pushed out and got under way. Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark.

   “哈克,”湯姆說,“我們把錢藏到寡婦家柴火棚的閣樓上,早上我就回來把錢過過數,然後兩人分掉,再到林子裡找個安全的地方把它放好。你獃在這兒別動,看著錢,我去把本尼·泰勒的小車子偷來,一會兒就回來。”

   "Now, Huck," said Tom, "we'll hide the money in the loft of the widow's woodshed, and I'll come up in the morning and we'll count it and divide, and then we'll hunt up a place out in the woods for it where it will be safe. Just you lay quiet here and watch the stuff till I run and hook Benny Taylor's little wagon; I won't be gone a minute."

   說完,他就消失了,不一會工夫他帶著小車子回來,把兩個小袋子先扔上車,然後再蓋上些爛布,拖着“貨物”就出發了。來到威爾斯曼家時,他倆停下來休息,之後正要動身時,威爾斯曼走出來說:

   He disappeared, and presently returned with the wagon, put the two small sacks into it, threw some old rags on top of them, and started off, dragging his cargo behind him. When the boys reached the Welshman's house, they stopped to rest. Just as they were about to move on, the Welshman stepped out and said:

   “喂,那是誰呀?”

   "Hallo, who's that?"

   “是我倆,哈克和湯姆·索亞。”

   "Huck and Tom Sawyer."

   “好極了!孩子們跟我來,大家都在等你倆呢。快點,頭裡小跑,我來拉車,咦,怎麼不像看上去的輕?裝了磚頭?還是什麼破銅爛鐵?”

   "Good! Come along with me, boys, you are keeping everybody waiting. Here--hurry up, trot ahead--I'll haul the wagon for you. Why, it's not as light as it might be. Got bricks in it?--or old metal?"

   “爛鐵。”湯姆說

   "Old metal," said Tom.

   “我也覺得像,鎮上的孩子就是喜歡東找西翻弄些破銅爛鐵賣給翻砂廠,最多不過換六個子。要是幹活的話,一般都能掙雙倍的錢,可人就是這樣的,不說了,快走吧,快點!”

   "I judged so; the boys in this town will take more trouble and fool away more time hunting up six bits' worth of old iron to sell to the foundry than they would to make twice the money at regular work. But that's human nature--hurry along, hurry along!"

   兩個孩子想知道為什麼催他們快走。

   The boys wanted to know what the hurry was about.

   “別問了,等到了寡婦家就知道了。”

   "Never mind; you'll see, when we get to the Widow Douglas'."

   哈克由於常被人誣陷,所以心有餘悸地問道:

   Huck said with some apprehension--for he was long used to being falsely accused:

   “瓊斯先生,我們什麼事也沒幹呀!”

   "Mr. Jones, we haven't been doing nothing."

   威爾斯曼笑了。

   The Welshman laughed.

   “噢,我不知道,我的好孩子,哈克,我也不知道是什麼事,你跟寡婦不是好朋友嗎?”

   "Well, I don't know, Huck, my boy. I don't know about that. Ain't you and the widow good friends?"

   “是的,不管怎麼說,她一直待我很好。”

   "Yes. Well, she's ben good friends to me, anyway."

   “這就行了,那麼你還有什麼可怕的呢?

   "All right, then. What do you want to be afraid for?"

   哈克反應慢,還沒轉過腦筋來就和湯姆一起被推進道格拉斯夫人家的客廳。瓊斯先生把車停在門邊後,也跟了進來。

   This question was not entirely answered in Huck's slow mind before he found himself pushed, along with Tom, into Mrs. Douglas' drawing-room. Mr. Jones left the wagon near the door and followed.

   客廳裡燈火輝煌,村裡有頭有面的人物全都聚在這兒。他們是撒切爾一家、哈帕一家、羅傑斯一家、波莉姨媽、希德、瑪麗、牧師、報館撰稿人,還有很多別的人,大家全都衣着考究。寡婦熱情地接待這兩個孩子,這樣的孩子誰見了都會伸出熱情之手。他倆渾身是泥土和蠟燭油。波莉姨媽臊得滿臉通紅,皺着眉朝湯姆直搖頭。這兩個孩子可受了大罪。瓊斯先生說:

   The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any consequence in the village was there. The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best. The widow received the boys as heartily as any one could well receive two such looking beings. They were covered with clay and candle-grease. Aunt Polly blushed crimson with humiliation, and frowned and shook her head at Tom. Nobody suffered half as much as the two boys did, however. Mr. Jones said:

   “當時湯姆不在家,所以我就沒再找他了,可偏巧在門口讓我給碰上了。他和哈克在一起,這不,我就急急忙忙把他倆弄到這裡。”

   "Tom wasn't at home, yet, so I gave him up; but I stumbled on him and Huck right at my door, and so I just brought them along in a hurry."

   “你做得對,”寡婦說,“孩子們跟我來吧。”

   "And you did just right," said the widow. "Come with me, boys."

   她把兩個孩子領到一間臥室,然後對他們說:

   She took them to a bedchamber and said:

   “你們洗個澡,換件衣服。這是兩套新衣服,襯衣、襪子樣樣齊備。這是哈克的——不,用不着道謝,哈克,一套是瓊斯先生拿來的,另一套是我拿來的。不過你們穿上會覺得合身的。穿上吧,我們等着——穿好就下來。”

   "Now wash and dress yourselves. Here are two new suits of clothes--shirts, socks, everything complete. They're Huck's--no, no thanks, Huck--Mr. Jones bought one and I the other. But they'll fit both of you. Get into them. We'll wait--come down when you are slicked up enough."

   她說完走了出去。

   Then she left.