路易丝知道瞒不过去，便吞吞吐吐地露出了真情，她说：“这事对你来说，可能很难……接受，我也觉得……有些不公平，嗯……本来我想等埃米莉回来以后，由她跟你解释，我想……这件事她可能比我了解得更清楚。”

Chapter 41 I Come Back（B）

Louise knew that it can't hide then haltingly to reveal the truth, she said: ‘This matter for you, it can be difficult to... to accept, I also feel... some unfair, um... I want to wait for Emily who she will explain to you, I think... It she might know better than I do.’

“我知道了，这事是昨天她来的电话引起的，是不是？”

“是的，”路易丝鼓足了勇气说，“她告诉我，她的爷爷托马斯·沃德要回来了。”

“你说什么？”小托马斯紧张地从沙发上爬起来，“难道除我以外，埃米莉还有一个叫托马斯的爷爷？……这不可能呀？”

‘I know what it was caused by the phone that she calling yesterday, isn't it?’

‘Yes,’ said Louise get up the courage, ‘she told me that her grandfather Thomas Ward will come back.’

‘What did you say?’ Small Thomas nervously got up from the sofa, ‘Besides me, Emily also has another grandpa named Thomas ? It's not possible?’

“事实上，你不能算是埃米莉的爷爷，尽管你与他小时侯几乎完全一样，当然，你也不是和我一起生活了几十年的托马斯。”

‘In fact, you aren't Emily's grandfather, although you almost exactly to be the same as he was a child, of course, you are not the one who lived with me for decades the Thomas.’

小托马斯瘫坐在沙发上，脸色气得有些发白。“真没想到，就连你也背叛了我！”

“亲爱的,请听我解释，……”

小托马斯一甩手跑出房间。

Small Thomas paralysis was sitting on the sofa, complexion to be a bit pale. ‘I don't fancy that even you betrayed me!’

‘My dear, please listen to me for explaining.’

Small Thomas angered and ran out of the room.

“你上哪儿去？”路易丝在后面连连喊道。她对守在门口的家丁说：“快点，拦住他！”

小托马斯跑得很快，在楼梯口撞上了一个人；他抬头一看，是埃米莉。

‘Where are you going?’ Louise behind shouted. She said to the guard who was at the door: ‘Come on, stop him!’

Small Thomas ran fast but on the stairs hit a person. He looked up to see that it is Emily.

“你怎么了？”埃米莉问。

“你们都不要我了！”小托马斯的眼睛里闪着泪花，他伤心地说。

“怎么会不要你呢？只是事情有些出人意料。走吧，我有话对你说。”

‘What's the matter with you?’ Emily asked.

‘You don't me!’ Small Thomas of eyes shining with tears, he said sadly.

‘How don't you? It just is what the matter came to with the surprise. Let's go, I have something to tell you.’

他们又回到了刚才的房间，埃米莉当着路易丝的面儿，把事情的真相原原本本地告诉了小托马斯。最后她说：“沃德先生他能接受你，难道你不能接受他吗？你是由他而来的，你是他的复制品，没有他，哪儿有你？你应该尊重他。虽然你不是托马斯·沃德本人，但是，你和他相比，你具有他的一切优势，包括丰富的生活经验和高超的理财能力，……”。

They returned to the room of just now, in front of Louise, Emily told the Small Thomas on the truth of the matter. At last she said: ‘Mr Ward he can accept you, can't you accept him? You come from him and you are the reproduction of him. Where are you to come from if without him? You should respect him. Although you are not the Thomas Ward himself, you compare with him what you have all of his advantages, including the rich experience in life and excellent ability of financial management.’

“是啊！”路易丝插话说，“就在这几天，他从纽约股票市场净赚了四千三百万。”

“呦，真不少哇！”埃米莉接着说，“而且，你具有他所没有的年轻生命，你的前途无量。我们全家人都不会抛弃你，你是沃德家族中的一员，你仍然可以做你想做的事。”末了，她转向路易丝说，“奶奶，您说是不是？”

“当然！”路易丝肯定地说。

‘Yes!’ Louise said, ‘In the last few days he netted forty-three million from the New York stock market.’

‘Wow!, Really a lot of!’ Emily continued, ‘ As well as you have the young life that he hasn't, and you have a great future. My whole family will not abandon you, and you are the member of the family of Ward, now you can still do what you want to do.’ In the end she said to Louise, ‘Grandma, you say it is not?’

"Of course." Louise said firmly.

小托马斯这时的情绪已经平静下来了。他说：“看来我只能接受现实了；不过，尽管我与沃德先生有相同内容的身体和灵魂，我仍然不是托马斯·沃德，那么我是谁呢？难道我还得回到谢尔曼的玻璃瓶子里去吗？”

“这不可能，”埃米莉稍稍想了一下说，“你只能是你自己，别的人谁也不是。”

“我只是我自己？”小托马斯苦笑道，“连个可以使用的名字都没有。”

Small Thomas at this moment mood has calmed down. He said: ‘It seems that I can only accept the reality, however, even though I have the same content with Mr Ward's body and soul, I'm still not Thomas Ward, then who am I? Do I have to go back to the Sherman’s glass bottle?’

‘It's not possible,’ Emily thought for a moment then to say, ‘you can only be yourself, not other people.’

‘I am just myself?’ Small Thomas said with wrying **ile, ‘It doesn't even have a name that can be used.’

“你别着急，既然你已经是我们家庭中的一员，没有人能无视你的存在，我想，我们一定能找到一个合理的解决方法。”

小托马斯看着埃米莉过了一会儿说：“埃米莉，你已经长大了；你还记得吗？那一年你六岁，你与你爸爸、妈妈和我在一起……”小托马斯停住话语很不情愿地改口说，“是和沃德先生在一起，在加那利度假时，你在海边沙滩上用细沙堆砌了沙雕一座城堡，涨潮的时候，海水淹没了它，你那时哭着对我……不，是对沃德先生说，‘我的家没有了。’我现在的感觉就和你那时的差不多。”

‘You don't try so hard, now that you have been a member of our family, no one can ignore the existence of you, I think, we can find a reasonable solution.’

Small Thomas looked at Emily after a while and said, ‘Emily, you have grown up, do you still remember? While you six years old, you and your father, mother and I together...’ Small Thomas stopped and reluctantly changed words, ‘It was with Mr Ward, on holiday in the Canary, you made a sand castle on the beach, but water submerged it when high tide, you were crying to say toward me, ... no to me but to be toward to Mr Ward, you said, 'my house is without. Now my feel that is alike as you at that time.’

埃米莉没说话，她不知道该怎么安慰他。

又过了一天，几乎所有的人都知道奥特明真正的主人要回来了，大伙儿翘首以待。几乎和小托马斯回来的那天一样，该来的都来了。大家看起来都很高兴，特别是克莱门特显得心情非常好。

Emily didn't speak what she didn't know how to comfort him.

Another day had gone, and almost everyone knew that the true owner of the Villa Autumn would come back, guys were waiting tiptoe. Almost as well as the day of Small Thomas to come back, person who should come all were on scene. Everyone looked very happy, especially Clement was in the very good mood.

九点过一刻，随着众人的欢呼声，还是那辆高级宝马牌嗲曼德201型轿车稳稳地开了过来，开车的是史蒂文斯。

车停了以后，玛丽亚搀扶着沃德先生走下汽车。

路易丝第一个迎了上去，“亲爱的，我以为真的再也见不到你了。”她一边说着，眼泪簌簌地流下来。

A quarter past nine, with the cheers of the crowd, still the senior BMW brand diamond type 201 car firmly to come over, driver was Stevens.

After the car stopped, Maria to assist with Mr Ward off the automobile.

Louise greeted by first. ‘My dear, I thought I really never see you again.’ She said and tears rolled off down.

“我这不是回来了吗？”

沃德先生与家人简短地见了一下面以后，便四处张望。埃米莉知道他在找谁，就把小托马斯抱了起来。沃德先生惊喜地看着他，抚摩着他的手臂。他说：“没错，没错。”

本以为在奥特明会有一场闹剧的人这一天很失望，两个沃德相处得很好，什么事也没发生。为了区分两位托马斯·沃德，小托马斯从此正式被称为托马斯II·沃德。

‘I am this to be not to come back?’

After Mr Ward saw briefly with his family then he looked around. Emily knew who he is looking for, just to embrace up Small Thomas. Mr Ward looked at him with surprise and stroked his arm. He said: ‘yes, that's right.’

The person who thought in the Villa Autumn would be a farce, they were very disappointed in the day, two Ward got along well with each other and nothing to happen. It was in order to distinguish between the two Thomas Ward, Small Thomas formally to call the name what Thomas Ward II from now on.

几天以后，埃米莉又回到了拿骚，她在蒙特雷街的“遇仙楼”门口见到了早已在这儿等候的克拉克。他们互相拥抱，像久别的恋人，双双走进了这家餐馆。

托马斯II也离开了奥特明，来到西班牙的阿尔梅里亚，去故地重游。

A few days later Emily returned to Nassau, she was on the doorway of Fairy Meets Restaurant where it was in Monterrey Street to meet the Clark who already waiting here. They hugged each other like long-lost lovers both entered the restaurant.

Thomas II also left the Villa Autumn to come to the Almeria of Spain to visit again.

半个月以后，所有被绑架的受害者均已获得了解救，包括警方在旧金山和其他地区搜获到的一百五十多名冬眠受害者。对于那些被道格拉斯公司当作“皮夹克”的儿童们，美国**决定在世界范围内，征求愿意领养他们的家庭。

不久，在尼古拉斯南岛，一件始料不及的事情发生了。在“生命隧道”的系统里，X月十日这天“电脑病毒[1]”爆发了，“病毒”破坏了硬盘里的大部分数据，“生命隧道”陷于瘫痪。

After half a month, all the kidnapping of victims that including all in hibernation of the victims who the police seized in San Francisco and other areas more than one hundred and fifty had received rescue. For those children who were regarding as leather jacket by the Bethe Douglas Company, the US government decided to solicit worldwide the families that it wanted to adopt their.

Soon, in the south island of Nicholas, something of unexpected happened. In the system of The Tunnel of Life, on the tenth of X month computer virus broke out, the virus destroyed most of the data in hard disk, The Tunnel of Life paralyzed.

在清理“生命隧道”系统的日子里，人们忽视了谢尔曼办公室里一台联网的PC[2]。根椐分析资料显示，出事的前一天是谢尔曼的生日，在这一天，如果不向该PC输入一组叫做“抗毒素”的特别数据，该PC的病毒程序第二天就会传染系统里的所有电脑，并在九十分钟以后发病，这显然是谢尔曼预设的诡计。

On the days that to clear the system of The Tunnel of Life, people neglected a networked PC that was in the office of Sherman. According to ****ysis of the data to show that before the day of accident to be Sherman's birthday, on this day, if not to input to the PC a group of special data which called antitoxin, then the PC viruses on the second day will infect all the computers in the system, and to after ninety minutes to taken ill, it was clearly a preset tricks of Sherman.

糟糕的是，从尼古拉斯南岛传来的消息说，曾有一位电脑专家提出要对该电脑系统的数据做“备份[3]”。但是，由于任何复制这种敏感程序的操作，都须得到白宫特别委员会的批准，专家的提议一时被搁置了，以至于事故发生时，大家都束手无策。

Worse that it was coming, the south island Nicholas said, there was a computer expert who before proposed to backup the information of the computer system. However, by reason of any operation that to replicate this program is sensitive, it must be approved by the White House Special Committee, expert proposal has been shelved temporarily, so that when the accident happened, everyone was helpless nail-biting.

对于“生命隧道”，新闻媒介在接连半个多月的跟踪报道之后，水花已经渐渐趋于平静。但是在学术界，更为持久的意见分歧依然让人争得面红耳赤。托马斯II是不是沃德先生返老还童的产物，是这一争论的焦点。

For The Tunnel of Life, the news media after more than half a month in the tracking report, the ripple had gradually to tend to be quiet. In academia, however, the dissensions with more lasting still let person be flushed for the dispute. Whether Mr Thomas II is the product of rejuvenation of Mr Ward, that is the focus of the debate.

一个月以后的一天，沃德先生把托马斯II请到自己的书房，对他说：“必须承认，我们是两个人，是在很多方面相同的两个人。正是因为这一点我需要和你个别谈一谈，目前，我的身体越来越糟糕，早晚我会离开这个世界的；令人欣慰的是，人们可以在你的身上继续看到我。

One day a month later, Mr Ward pleased Thomas II to go his study and said to him, ‘It must be admitted that we are two people, but the two people to be the same in many ways. It is because of this so I need to talk to you individually, at present, now my body is getting worse, and sooner or later I will leave this world, but delighted, people can continue to see me on you.

“我将给你留下公司百分之五的股份，另外，上个月你曾帮助路易丝在股票市场赚到了四千三百万，我把其中的一半，也就是两千一百五十万美圆交给你，作为你今后发展的资本。我了解你，也决不怀疑你的能力，我想，这样的安排对于你是足够了，想当初，我和我的父亲在创业的时候，条件要差得多。”

‘I will give you five percent shares in the company, in addition, last month you had helped Louise to gain forty-three million in the stock market, I take half of them, which is twenty-one million and five hundred thousand dollars to you, it is the future development of the capital for you. I know you and never doubt of your ability, I think that this arrangement is enough for you, think at the beginning my father and I are in the business the condition far worse.’

“谢谢您，沃德先生，”托马斯II说，“我将让您的精神永世长存。”

“好！你现在从年纪上来说还很小，我建议你回到学校去，从那里开始，重新建立你新的社会关系，祝你好运！”

‘Thank you, Mr Ward,’ said Thomas II, ‘I will let your spirit live forever.’

‘Well! Now you are in age is still **all, I suggest that you go back to school and from there, again to establish your new social relations, good luck to you!’

四个月后，沃德先生终因心肾衰竭综合症离开了人间，托马斯II也出现在送葬的队伍中。似乎沃德先生的死并没有引起多少人的注意，倒是大家开始更关心托马斯II的消息。许多追踪沃德先生行踪秘事的小报，现在又把目标对准了托马斯II。在许多人的心目中，他像是一颗最近爆发的新星，耀眼地出现在浩繁的星空中。

Four months later Mr Ward left the world with heart and kidney exhaustion failure syndrome, and Thomas II also appeared in the funeral procession. Seems to Mr Ward's death did not cause the attention of many people, but everyone began to care more about Thomas II. Many tabloids that keep to track whereabouts and secret of Mr Ward were now targeting again Thomas II. In the minds of many people he seems to be a recent outbreak of a temporary star which it was shining to appear in the heavy sky.

注：[1]电脑病毒—— 一种人为编制的破坏性程序，具有生物病毒可以传染的特征，使不注意“卫生”的电脑受到传染，并在一定的潜伏期后发“病”。

[2] PC—— 个人电脑的英文缩写。

[3]备份——为了防止电脑中一些重要资料意外丢失，常常复制一至几份另外存放，以防不测。