《汤姆·索亚历险记》第二十七章 忐忑不安的跟踪
THE adventure of the day mightily tormented Tom's dreams that night. Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune. As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away -- somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by. Then it occurred to him that the great adventure itself must be a dream！ There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea -- namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. He had never seen as much as fifty dollars in one mass before, and he was like all boys of his age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to "hundreds" and "thousands" were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world. He never had supposed for a moment that so large a sum as a hundred dollars was to be found in actual money in any one's possession. If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all. This uncertainty must be swept away. He would snatch a hurried breakfast and go and find Huck. Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy. Tom concluded to let Huck lead up to the subject. If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.
"Hello, Huck！"
"Hello, yourself."
Silence, for a minute.
"Tom, if we'd 'a' left the blame tools at the dead tree, we'd 'a' got the money. Oh, ain't it awful！"
"'Tain't a dream, then, 'tain't a dream！ Somehow I most wish it was. Dog'd if I don't, Huck."
"What ain't a dream?"
"Oh, that thing yesterday. I been half thinking it was."
"Dream！ If them stairs hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how much dream it was！ I've had dreams enough all night -- with that patch-eyed Spanish devil going for me all through 'em -- rot him！"
"No, not rot him. FIND him！ Track the money！"
"Tom, we'll never find him. A feller don't have only one chance for such a pile -- and that one's lost. I'd feel mighty shaky if I was to see him, anyway."
"Well, so'd I; but I'd like to see him, anyway -- and track him out -- to his Number Two."
"Number Two -- yes, that's it. I been thinking 'bout that. But I can't make nothing out of it. What do you reckon it is?"
"I dono. It's too deep. Say, Huck -- maybe it's the number of a house！"
"Goody！ ... No, Tom, that ain't it. If it is, it ain't in this one-horse town. They ain't no numbers here."
"Well, that's so. Lemme think a minute. Here -- it's the number of a room -- in a tavern, you know！"
"Oh, that's the trick！ They ain't only two taverns. We can find out quick."
"You stay here, Huck, till I come."
Tom was off at once. He did not care to have Huck's company in public places. He was gone half an hour. He found that in the best tavern, No. 2 had long been occupied by a young lawyer, and was still so occupied. In the less ostentatious house, No. 2 was a mystery. The tavern-keeper's young son said it was kept locked all the time, and he never saw anybody go into it or come out of it except at night; he did not know any particular reason for this state of things; had had some little curiosity, but it was rather feeble; had made the most of the mystery by entertaining himself with the idea that that room was "ha'nted"; had noticed that there was a light in there the night before.
"That's what I've found out, Huck. I reckon that's the very No. 2 we're after."
"I reckon it is, Tom. Now what you going to do?"
"Lemme think."
Tom thought a long time. Then he said:
"I'll tell you. The back door of that No. 2 is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store. Now you get hold of all the door-keys you can find, and I'll nip all of auntie's, and the first dark night we'll go there and try 'em. And mind you, keep a lookout for Injun Joe, because he said he was going to drop into town and spy around once more for a chance to get his revenge. If you see him, you just follow him; and if he don't go to that No. 2, that ain't the place."
"Lordy, I don't want to foller him by myself！"
"Why, it'll be night, sure. He mightn't ever see you -- and if he did, maybe he'd never think anything."
"Well, if it's pretty dark I reckon I'll track him. I dono -- I dono. I'll try."
"You bet I'll follow him, if it's dark, Huck. Why, he might 'a' found out he couldn't get his revenge, and be going right after that money."
"It's so, Tom, it's so. I'll foller him; I will, by jingoes！"
"Now you're talking！ Don't you ever weaken, Huck, and I won't."
那天晚上，汤姆一夜都没睡好，白天的历险也被带入梦乡。他梦中抓住了宝箱有四次，可是当睡梦消失，他醒后面对的还是那不幸的严酷现实：宝箱化为乌有，他仍是两手空空。一大早，他躺在那儿，回想着伟大的冒险经历，觉得那些事件越来越模糊，越来越远鈥斺�斢械阆袷窃诹硪桓鍪澜缋锓⑸模蛘呤呛芫煤芫靡郧胺⑸氖虑椤Ｓ谑撬蝗灰馐兜秸獯未竺跋毡旧硪欢ㄊ且怀∶危≌庵窒敕ㄇ坑辛Φ穆鄣憔褪撬降慕鸨沂刻啵桓业闭妫郧八用挥幸幌伦涌垂迨椤Ｋ屯旰⒆用且谎衔裁醇竿蛟⒊汕贤蛟徊还翘柑付眩静淮嬖谡饷创笫康那Ｋ豢桃裁挥腥衔母鋈苏嬗涤幸话倜涝庋笫康那Ｈ绻治鲆幌拢衔癫氐哪遣糠植票Γ徊还且话颜娣直液鸵淮蠖芽晒鄄豢杉啊⒐饬辽辽恋目槠倍选�
可是他越想，冒险的事情就越历历在目，他倒觉得这也许不是梦，是真的。他一定要弄个水落石出，于是他三口两口吃完早饭后就去找哈克。
哈克坐在一条平底船的船舷上边，两只脚没精打采地放在水里，看上去忧心忡忡。汤姆决定让哈克先开口谈这个问题。他要是不提这事，那足以证明上次的冒险只是场梦。
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汤姆立刻出去了，他不喜欢在大众场合下和哈克在一块。他去了有半个小时，他发现在那家较好的客栈里，一个年青的律师长期住在二号，现在也没走。可是那家较差的客栈，二号却是个谜。客栈老板那年青的儿子说，二号一直锁着，除了晚上，从来没有人进出，他也不知道为什么会这样，只觉得略有点好奇，以那房子鈥溎止礅�� 为由来满足自己的好奇心。
他还曾注意到前天晚上，二号里有灯光。
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