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Chapter 4 The man with white hair
第四章 白发男子
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.
尼克在酒店前停了车。下车前他仔细观察了一番，可酒店附近没有什么白发男子。
He half-ran through the hotel doors and went to the desk inside.
他小跑着穿过了酒店的大门，来到里边的前台。
'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.'
“我找一个留着白色短发的人，”他对前台里面的女人说，“我想他住在这里。他大约60岁上下，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?'
那个女的看起来并不十分在意。“酒店里有很多客人，”她说，“你知道他的名字吗？”
'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，是一个朋友的朋友，你明白吧。他昨天到的温哥华，我必须找到他。这很重要。拜托请帮帮忙！”
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.
女人看着尼克。“酒店里有350个房间，”她说，“或许有三四十个男人都留着白发。我怎么能记得住他们所有人的名字？”她转过身去接电话了。
Nick walked away from the desk.
尼克离开了前台。
'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。”他走进酒店里的酒吧，要了杯酒，坐了下来。
'So what do I do now?' he thought.
“那我现在做些什么？”他思索着。
And then he remembered something. A letter in the girl's half-open bag in the Whistler café.
于是他回忆起了什么，就是在惠斯勒的那家咖啡馆，那个女孩儿半开的包里的一封信。
...and we can meet at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, Vancouver Island, on Friday afternoon...
“……我们可于星期五下午在温哥华岛维多利亚的皇后酒店见面……”
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!'
“我得去温哥华岛的维多利亚！”他想，“去皇后酒店！”
