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10.神秘之谜破解了
空气暖洋洋的。
现在是拂晓时分。远处的一只狗在吠叫。
“我想这是亨利在叫！”安妮说，“我们的确到家了。”
他们双双向树屋的窗外望去。
“家真近啊。”杰克说。
在远处，街道上的路灯还亮着。他们家楼上窗户还亮着灯。
“唷——啊。”安妮说。“我想老妈和老爸起床了，得赶快！”
“等一等。”杰克有些迷糊，拉开背包的拉链，他抽出那本城堡书，书还湿漉漉的。不过杰克还是把它和树屋里其他的书放在一起。
“走吧！快！”安妮说，迅速溜出树屋。
杰克跟着她下绳梯。
他们到了地面上，在灰黑色的树林中穿行。
他们离开了大森林，向着冷冷清清的街道跑去。
他们到了自己的院子，蹑手蹑脚地穿过草坪，直走到家的后门。
杰克和安妮溜进房子里。
“他们还没下楼呢。”安妮低声说。
“嘘，”杰克说。
他沿楼梯上了楼，又下楼到客厅去。不见老妈和老爸的踪影。但是他能听见洗澡间的流水声。
他们的家和那黑洞洞冰飕飕的城堡是如此的不同。家是这样的安全，这样的温馨，这样的亲切。
安妮正站在她卧室的门口。她对杰克笑了笑，然后消失在她卧室里。
杰克飞快进入自己的房间。他脱掉自己的湿衣，换上了干燥柔软的睡衣。
他坐在床上，拉开背包拉链。他拿出湿湿的笔记本。他在背包里摸铅笔，但是他的手触摸到一样东西。
杰克从背包里掏出那张蓝色的皮书签。这肯定是那张插在城堡书中的书签。
杰克拿着书签凑近灯前，仔细研究。皮书签光滑陈旧，它似乎十分古老。
杰克第一次发现书签上有个字母。一个奇异的M。
杰克打开床边的桌子抽屉。他拿出金牌。
他看着上面的字母，也是同一个M。
这是一个令人惊奇的新事实。
杰克深深地吸了一口气，一个神秘之谜破解了。
在恐龙时代失落金牌的人和树屋那所有书籍的主人是同一个人。
这个人是谁呢？
杰克把书签和奖牌并排放好，然后关上抽屉。
他拿起铅笔，翻到笔记本湿得最少的那一页。他开始记下这个新事实：
一样的……
不过他还没写完字母M，双眼就闭上了。
他梦见他们又和骑士在一起。他们三人骑着黑马在凉飕飕、黑漆漆的夜里奔驰。
驰过城堡的外墙。奔上月光照亮的小山。
消失在浓浓的雾中。
10 One Mystery Solved
The air was warm.
It was dawn. Far away a dog barked.
“I think that’ s Henry barking!” Annie said. “We did come home.”
They both looked out the tree house window.
“That was close，” said Jack.
In the distance， streetlights lit their street. There was a light on in their upstairs window.
“Uh-oh，” said Annie. “I think Mom and Dad are up. Hurry!”
“Wait.” In a daze， Jack unzipped his backpack. He pulled out the castle book. It was quite wet. But Jack placed it back with all the other books.
“Come on! Hurry!” said Annie， scooting out of the tree house.
Jack followed her down the ladder.
They reached the ground and took off between the gray-black trees.
They left the woods and ran down their deserted street.
They got to their yard and crept across the lawn. Right up to the back door.
Jack and Annie slipped inside the house.
“They’ re not downstairs yet，” whispered Annie.
“Shhh，” said Jack.
He led the way up the stairs and down the hall. No sign of his mom or dad. But he could hear water running in the bathroom.
Their house was so different from the dark， cold castle. So safe and cozy and friendly.
Annie stopped at her bedroom door. She gave Jack a smile， then disappeared inside her room.
Jack hurried into his room. He took off his damp clothes and pulled on his dry， soft pajamas.
He sat down on his bed and unzipped his backpack. He took out his wet notebook. He felt around for the pencil， but his hand touched something else.
Jack pulled the blue leather bookmark out of his pack. It must have fallen out of the castle book.
Jack held the bookmark close to his lamp and studied it. The leather was smooth and worn. It seemed ancient.
For the first time Jack noticed a letter on the bookmark. A fancy M.
Jack opened the drawer next to his bed. He took out the gold medallion.
He looked at the letter on it. It was the same M.
Now this was an amazing new fact.
Jack took a deep breath. One mystery solved.
The person who had dropped the gold medallion in the time of the dinosaurs was the same person who owned all the books in the tree house.
Who was this person?
Jack placed the bookmark next to the medallion. He closed the drawer.
He picked up his pencil. He turned to the least wet page in his notebook. And he started to write down this new fact. the same
But before he could draw the M， his eyes closed.
He dreamed they were with the knight again. All three of them riding the black horse through the cool， dark night. Beyond the outer wall of the castle. And up over a moonlit hill.
Into the mist.
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