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Chapter 1 Mystery girl
第一章 神秘女孩兒
It all began on a beautiful spring morning in a village called Whistler, in Canada - a pretty little village in the mountains of British Columbia.
故事發生在一個美麗春日的早晨，地點是加拿大一個叫惠斯勒的村莊——這是一個美麗的小村莊，坐落在不列顛哥倫比亞省的山區。
There was a café in the village, with tables outside, and at one of these tables sat a young man. He finished his breakfast, drank his coffee, looked up into the blue sky, and felt the warm sun on his face. Nick Lortz was a happy man.
村子里有個咖啡館，外面擺著幾張桌子，一個年輕人坐在一張桌子旁。他吃完了早餐，喝完了咖啡，抬頭看看湛藍的天空，陽光照在他的臉上，暖暖的。他叫尼克·洛茨，是個快樂的人。
The waiter came up to his table. 'More coffee?' he asked.
服務員走到他的桌子旁。“再來點兒咖啡嗎？”他問道。
'Yeah. Great,' said Nick. He gave the waiter his coffee cup.
“是的，太好了。”尼克說著，把咖啡杯遞給了服務員。
The waiter looked at the camera on the table. 'On vacation?' he said. 'Where are you from?'
服務員看看桌子上的照相機。“來度假的吧？”他問道，“你是從哪里來的？”
'San Francisco,' Nick said. He laughed. 'But I'm not on vacation - I'm working. I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America. I've got some great pictures of your mountain.'
“舊金山。”尼克答道。接著又笑了，“不過我不是度假的——我是在工作。我是個旅行作家，正在寫一本關于北美山岳的書。我已經拍了一些你們這里的山的照片，很棒。”
The two men looked up at Whistler Mountain behind the village. It looked very beautiful in the morning sun.
兩人抬頭看著村子后面的惠斯勒山。晨光中的惠斯勒山顯得非常美麗。
'Do you travel a lot, then?' asked the waiter.
“那你是不是經常旅行？”服務員問道。
'All the time,' Nick said. 'I write books, and I write for travel magazines. I write about everything - different countries, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, people ...'
“我一直在旅行，”尼克說，“我寫書，還給旅游雜志撰稿。我什么都寫——不同的國家、城鎮、村莊、河流、山脈、還有人們……”
