本集演播：槑贰 

后期：夕曳

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第26章 地下行动
就在这天晚上，几个仆人睡觉前聚在一起闲聊。
“那是什么声音？”其中一个女佣说，她已经听了一会儿了。
“我前两晚就听到了，”厨子说。“我估计那是有一只老鼠，但我的汤姆猫咪在，老鼠会躲得远远的呀。”
“我也听到了。不过，”洗碗女工说，“老鼠有时候成群搬家，所以说不定是有一队老鼠来捣乱呢。我这两天都听到声音了。”
厨子说：“那这下可好玩了。我家的汤姆和管家太太养的鲍勃一辈子就这次机会可以统一战线。我保证它俩一起上阵，多少老鼠都得打跑。”
奶妈说：“听起来声音大得不像老鼠啊。我整天都听见，公主好几次都问我那是什么。有时候听起来像是远远地在打雷，有时候又像是在山里听到的声音，下面那些讨厌的矿工弄出来的。”
厨子说：“是矿工倒也不出奇。他们在山里挖洞，声音就从洞里传上来。你知道，他们总是挖洞呀炸山呀开矿呀。”
这话才刚说完，脚底下就轰隆轰隆响，房子也开始摇晃起来。他们吓得一下子跳起来，慌忙跑到大厅，发现侍卫也是惊慌失措的。他们派人去把侍卫长叫醒。侍卫长听他们一讲，认为一定是地震了。这个王国虽然很少有地震，不过也确实发生过。侍卫长说完回去倒头又睡，说来奇怪，竟立刻呼呼大睡，一点也没想起科迪，也没想过他们听到的声音和科迪说的有什么关系。他并不相信科迪，不然他立刻就会想想科迪说的，也会小心防备。声音一过去，他们纷纷觉得沃尔特爵士没错，危险也已经过去，可能要再过一百年才会遇上了。

CHAPTER 26  The Goblin-Miners

That same night several of the servants were having a chat together before going to bed.

'What can that noise be?' said one of the housemaids, who had been listening for a moment or two.

'I've heard it the last two nights,' said the cook. 'If there were any about the place, I should have taken it for rats, but my Tom keeps them far enough.'

'I've heard, though,' said the scullery-maid, 'that rats move about in great companies sometimes. There may be an army of them invading us. I've heard the noises yesterday and today too.'

'It'll be grand fun, then, for my Tom and Mrs Housekeeper's Bob,' said the cook. 'They'll be friends for once in their lives, and fight on the same side. I'll engage Tom and Bob together will put to flight any number of rats.'

'It seems to me,' said the nurse, 'that the noises are much too loud for that. I have heard them all day, and my princess has asked me several times what they could be. Sometimes they sound like distant thunder, and sometimes like the noises you hear in the mountain from those horrid miners underneath.'

'I shouldn't wonder,' said the cook, 'if it was the miners after all. They may have come on some hole in the mountain through which the noises reach to us. They are always boring and blasting and breaking, you know.'

As he spoke, there came a great rolling rumble beneath them, and the house quivered. They all started up in affright, and rushing to the hall found the gentlemen-at-arms in consternation also. They had sent to wake their captain, who said from their description that it must have been an earthquake, an occurrence which, although very rare in that country, had taken place almost within the century; and then went to bed again, strange to say, and fell fast asleep without once thinking of Curdie, or associating the noises they had heard with what he had told them. He had not believed Curdie. If he had, he would at once have thought of what he had said, and would have taken precautions. As they heard nothing more, they concluded that Sir Walter was right, and that the danger was over for perhaps another hundred years.