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Chapter 4 The man with white hair
第四章 白發男子
Nick stopped his car in front of the hotel. He looked carefully before he got out, but there was nobody with white hair near the hotel.
尼克在酒店前停了車。下車前他仔細觀察了一番，可酒店附近沒有什么白發男子。
He half-ran through the hotel doors and went to the desk inside.
他小跑著穿過了酒店的大門，來到里邊的前臺。
'I'm looking for a man with very short white hair,' he said to the woman behind the desk. 'He's staying here, I think. He's about sixty years old, and he's tall and thin.'
“我找一個留著白色短發的人，”他對前臺里面的女人說，“我想他住在這里。他大約60歲上下，又高又瘦。”
The woman did not look very interested. 'There are a lot of visitors in the hotel,' she said. 'Do you know his name?'
那個女的看起來并不十分在意。“酒店里有很多客人，”她說，“你知道他的名字嗎？”
'No, I don't,' Nick said. 'He's, er, a friend of a friend, you see. He arrived in Vancouver yesterday, and I must find him. It's very important. Please help me!'
“不，不知道，”尼克答道，“他是，呃，是一個朋友的朋友，你明白吧。他昨天到的溫哥華，我必須找到他。這很重要。拜托請幫幫忙！”
The woman looked at him. 'There are three hundred and fifty rooms in this hotel,' she said, 'and maybe thirty or forty men with white hair. How can I remember all their names?' She turned away to answer a telephone call.
女人看著尼克。“酒店里有350個房間，”她說，“或許有三四十個男人都留著白發。我怎么能記得住他們所有人的名字？”她轉過身去接電話了。
Nick walked away from the desk.
尼克離開了前臺。
'A drink,' he thought. 'I need a drink.' He went into the hotel bar, got a drink and sat down at a table.
“喝一杯，”他想，“我需要喝一杯。”他走進酒店里的酒吧，要了杯酒，坐了下來。
'So what do I do now?' he thought.
“那我現在做些什么？”他思索著。
And then he remembered something. A letter in the girl's half-open bag in the Whistler café.
于是他回憶起了什么，就是在惠斯勒的那家咖啡館，那個女孩兒半開的包里的一封信。
...and we can meet at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, Vancouver Island, on Friday afternoon...
“……我們可于星期五下午在溫哥華島維多利亞的皇后酒店見面……”
And tomorrow was Friday.
明天就是星期五。
'I'm going to Victoria, on Vancouver Island!' he thought. 'To the Empress Hotel!'
“我得去溫哥華島的維多利亞！”他想，“去皇后酒店！”
