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蝇王|Lord of the Flies

第一章 海螺的声音|Chapter 1 The Sound of the Shell

属类: 双语小说 【分类】魔幻小说 -[作者: 威廉-戈尔丁] 阅读:[27622]
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金发少年从岩石最下面的一截攀下来,又开始试探着朝环礁湖方向走去。虽然他已经脱掉了那件学校里常穿的笨重运动衫,但还是大汗淋漓;灰衬衫湿淋淋地粘在身上,湿漉漉地头发贴在前额上。忽然在这个少年的四周一条长长的孤岩猛插进丛林深处,天气的闷热使得孤岩就象个热气腾腾的浴缸。这会儿少年正在藤蔓和断树残干中费劲儿地爬着,突然一只红黄色的小鸟怪叫一声、振翅高飞,紧接着又响起了另一个声音。

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“嘿!”这声音喊道,“等一等!”

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孤岩侧面的矮灌木丛有大量的雨珠啪嗒啪嗒地直往下掉,使得矮灌木丛摇来晃去。

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“等等。”这声音又叫,“我给缠住了。”

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金发少年把脚停住,很轻松地紧紧袜子。他这动作此刻让人觉得这孩子好象是在老家一样。

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那个声音又叫开了。“这么多的藤蔓我真没法摆脱。”说这话的孩子正从矮灌木丛中脱身出来,细树枝在他肮脏的防风外衣上刮擦刮擦直响。

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他光着的膝盖被荆棘缠住擦伤了。

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他弯下腰,小心谨慎地拨开棘刺,然后转过身来。

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与金发少年相比,这个男孩稍矮一些,身体也胖了一些。

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他用脚小心地试探着往前走着,寻找着安全的落脚处,随后又透过厚厚的眼镜往上瞧瞧。“那个带话筒的大人在哪儿?”

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金发少年摇摇头。“这是一个岛,至少在我看来是一个岛。那里是一条伸进外海的礁脉。兴许这儿没大人了。”

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胖男孩睁大眼睛,张大嘴巴。“本来有个驾驶员,他没在客舱,在前上方的驾驶舱里。”

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金发少年眯起眼睛凝视着那条礁脉。

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“剩下的全都是小孩儿。”胖男孩继续说道。“他们肯定会有跑出来的,你说是不是?”

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金发少年开始随心所欲地找路往水边走。他尽量使自己显示出一副随随便便的样子,同时又避免表露出明显的无动于衷,可那胖男孩尾随其后。

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“到底还有没有大人呢?”

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“我认为没有。”金发少年板着面孔回答。可随后,他又象实现了理想般的喜不自胜。

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在孤岩当中,他就地拿了个大顶,咧嘴笑看着颠倒了的胖男孩。

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“没大人口罗!”胖男孩想了想。“那个驾驶员呢?”

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金发少年两腿一屈,一屁股坐在湿漉漉的地上。“他把咱们投下后就走了,因为他没法使有轮子的飞机在这儿着陆。”

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“咱们被偷袭了!”

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“他会平安回来的。”

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胖男孩晃晃脑袋。“下降那阵子不但我从一个窗口往外瞧过,而且我看见飞机的其他部分直朝外喷火。”他上下打量着孤岩。

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“这不就是机身撞的。”金发少年伸手摸摸树干高低不平的一头,好像对此事非常感兴趣。

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“机身又怎么了?”他问道。“那东西现在又跑哪儿去了呢?”

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“暴风雨把机身拖到海里去了。倒下的树干这么多,情况一定非常严重。机舱里准保还有些小孩儿呢?”

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胖男孩犹豫一下又问:“你叫什么名字?”

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“拉尔夫。”

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胖男孩等着对方问自己的名字,可对方却不打算了解自己。名叫拉尔夫的金发少年隐约笑笑,站起身来,又开始朝环礁湖方向走去。

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胖男孩的手重重地搭在拉尔夫的肩膀上。“我想还有好多小孩可能分散在附近。你没见过别人吗?”

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拉尔夫摆摆头,加快了步伐,没想到却被树枝一绊,猛地摔了个跟头。

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胖男孩气喘嘘嘘地站在他身边。“我姨妈叫我别跑。”他生气地说,“因为我有气喘病。”

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“气喘病?”

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“对呀,就是接不上气。在我们那个学校就我得气喘病。”胖男孩略带骄傲地说:“我还从三岁起就一直带着眼镜。”他随手取下眼镜递给拉尔夫看,还笑眯眯地眨眨眼,随后把眼镜放在肮脏的防风外衣上擦起来。

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一会儿胖男孩苍白的面容上再次出现了一种痛苦难抑的表情。他擦擦双颊的汗珠,匆匆地整理好鼻上的眼镜。

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他环视了一下孤岩。

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“看那些野果。”他说,“那些野果,我以为——”他绕过拉尔夫身边的藤蔓,在一堆缠绕着的簇叶中蹲了下去。

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“我一会儿就出来——”拉尔夫小心翼翼地解开缠绕在身上的枝条,很快穿过杂树乱枝。

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不一会儿胖男孩鼾声就落到他的身后,拉尔夫急急忙忙地朝树林赶去。他翻过一根断树干后,走出了丛林。

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海岸边长满各式各样的棕榈,有的树身耸立着,有的树身向阳光偏斜着,绿色的树叶伸向空中高达一百英尺。树下是铺满粗壮杂草的斜堤,被乱七八糟横七竖八倒下的树划得东一道西一道,还弥漫着腐烂的椰子和棕榈树苗的气味。之后就是那黑压压的森林本体部分和孤岩的空旷地带。拉尔夫背靠着棕灰树干站着,眯起眼睛看着波光粼粼的海水。从这里往外约一英里的地方,雪白的浪花忽隐忽现地拍打着一座珊瑚礁。再往外则是湛蓝而辽阔的大海。在珊瑚礁不规则的弧形圈里,环礁湖平静得象一个山潭——湖水呈现出蓝色、墨绿色和紫色。在长着棕榈树的斜坡和海水之间是一条狭窄的弓形海滩,看似遥不可及,在拉尔夫的左面,棕榈、海滩和海水伸向远处;而几乎张眼看到的则是一股腾腾的热气。

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拉尔夫从斜坡上跳下去。因为沙子太厚而淹没了他的黑鞋子,热浪冲击着他。

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他意识到身上的衣服很重,猛地踢掉鞋,快速地脱掉一双袜子。接着又跳回到斜坡上,站在一堆脑壳样的椰子当中,扯下衬衫,立刻棕榈和森林的绿荫斜照到他的皮肤上。拉尔夫解开蛇形搭扣的皮带,用力地脱掉短裤和衬裤,光着身子站在那儿,注视着耀眼的海滩和海水。

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拉尔夫已经长大了,有十二岁多了。象征着是小孩子的凸肚子已经不见了,但还没大到会感到难为情的青春期。就从他长得又宽又结实的肩膀而言,看得出他完全可能成为一个拳击手,但他的嘴形和眼睛偏又流露出一种温柔的神色,表明他心地善良。拉尔夫轻轻地拍拍棕榈树干,终于意识到这确实是个岛,又开心地笑笑,来了个拿大顶。他利索地翻身站起来,蹦到海滩上,跪下拨了两抱沙子,在胸前形成个沙堆。随之他往后一坐,兴奋的明眸直盯着海水。

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“拉尔夫——”在斜坡上胖男孩蹲下身子,把斜坡边缘当个座位,小心地坐下来。

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“对不起,我来迟了。那些野果——”他擦擦眼镜之后,又把扁鼻子上的眼镜端正。眼镜框在鼻梁上印了道深深的、粉红的“V”形。他打量着拉尔夫精神焕发的身体,然后又低头瞧瞧,一只手放到直落胸前的拉链头上的衣服。

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“我姨妈——”随后他果断地拉开拉链,整件防风外衣被他套在头上。“瞧!”

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拉尔夫一言不发的从侧面看看他。

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“我想咱们要知道他们全部的名字,”

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胖男孩说,“还要造一份名单,咱们该开个会。”

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拉尔夫没说话,所以胖男孩只好继续说下去:“我不在乎他们叫我啥名字,”他以肯定的口气对拉尔夫说,“只要他们在学校别时常叫我的那个绰号。”

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拉尔夫有点感兴趣了。“那个是什么绰号?”

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胖男孩的视线越过自己的肩膀瞥了一下,然后凑向拉尔夫。他悄悄地说:“他们常叫我‘猪崽子’。”

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尖声大笑着的拉尔夫跳了起来。“猪崽子!猪崽子哟!”

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“拉尔夫——请别叫!”担心地猪崽子绞紧了双手。“我说过不要——”

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“猪崽子哟!猪崽子哟!”在海滩的赤热空气中拉尔夫手舞足蹈地跳开了,接着又装做战斗机翅膀后剪的样子折回来,机枪往猪崽子身上扫。

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“吓—啊—哦!”他一头俯冲进猪崽子脚下的沙堆,躺在那里直笑。

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“猪崽子!”

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猪崽不情愿地咧开了嘴,尽管这样的招呼对他似乎是过份了,但他还是被逗乐了。

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“只要你不告诉别人——”

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拉尔夫在沙滩中格格地笑着。

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在猪崽子的脸上又一次表现了痛苦和专注的神色。“等一等。”  猪崽子着急地奔回森林。拉尔夫站起来,朝右面小步跑去。

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在这儿,成直角基调的地形猛地把海滩截断了,一大块粉红色的花岗岩平台不协调地直穿过森林、斜坡、沙滩和环礁湖,形成一个高达四英尺的突出部分。一层薄薄的泥土覆盖在平台顶上,粗壮的杂草和成荫的小棕榈树在上面长着。因为没有充足的泥土让小树茁壮成长,所以它们到二十英尺光景就倒下而干死。

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树干横七竖八地交叠在一起,坐起来倒容易。依然挺立着的棕榈树形成了一个罩盖着地面的绿顶,里面闪耀着从环礁湖反射上来的跳动的散光。

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拉尔夫硬爬上平台,很快就看到了这儿凉快的绿荫,他闭上一只眼,心想落在身上的树叶的影子一定是绿色的,又择路走向平台朝海的一边,站在那里俯视着海水。水底清澈,又因盛长热带海藻和珊瑚而璀璨夺目。一群小小的、闪闪发光的鱼儿东游西窜、忽隐忽现。

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拉尔夫喜出望外,他用低沉的嗓门,自言自语地说道:“太棒了!”

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还有更迷人的东西在平台外面呢!某种不可抗拒的自然力量——也许是一场台风,或是跟随他一起到来的那场风暴——一道沙堤在环礁湖的里侧被堆起,因而海滩里造成个长而深的水潭,较远一头是高高的突出粉红色的花岗岩部分。拉尔夫曾上过当,看上去海滩水潭深,其实不然。

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现在他走近这个水潭,本也没抱希望。这个岛却实是一个岛,使人难以置信的是这个水潭是由海发大潮所造成的,它的一头深得呈墨绿色,拉尔夫仔细地巡看了这整整三十码的水面,接着一个猛子扎了进去。拉尔夫好象是在一个巨大的浴缸里游泳因为水比他的血还暖。

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猪崽子又出现了,坐在岩石突出的边上,用嫉妒的眼光注视着拉尔夫在绿水里上下雪白的身躯。

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“你游得不好。”

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“猪崽子。”

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猪崽子小心地将脱掉的鞋袜排放在岩石边上,接着用一只脚趾试试水温。

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“太热!”

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“你干嘛还等着呀?”

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“可我的姨妈。可我的姨妈——”

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“去你的姨妈!”从水面往下一扎的拉尔夫在水中睁着眼游,水潭的沙质岩边隐隐约约地象个小山坡。

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他翻了个身,捏住鼻子,正看到一道摇晃的金光碎落在眼前。猪崽子看来正犹豫,他动手脱掉短裤,不一会儿,露出又白又胖的身躯。

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他踮着脚趾走到水潭的沙滩边,坐在那儿,水没到颈部,充满自豪的他对着拉尔夫微笑。

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“你不打算游吗?”

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猪崽子晃晃脑袋。“我不会。我姨妈不准我游,我有气喘病——”

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“去你的气喘不气喘!”猪崽子以一种谦卑的耐心忍着。“你游得不行啊!”

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拉尔夫用脚啪嗒啪嗒地打着水把嘴浸下去,游回到斜面下,再向上空喷一口水,随后抬起下巴说:“我五岁就会游泳,我爸爸教的。他是个海军军官。他一休假就会来救咱们的。你爸爸是干什么的?”

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猪崽子的脸顿时红了。“我爹死了,”他急匆匆地说,“而我妈——”他把眼镜取下来,想寻找些什么来擦擦,但又找不到。

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“我一直跟姨妈住一块儿。她开了个糖果铺,我常吃许多糖,愿意吃多少就吃多少。什么时候你爸爸来救咱们?”

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“他会尽量快的。”从水中走来的湿淋淋的猪崽子光着身子站着,用一只袜子擦擦眼镜。

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透过早晨的热气他们所听到的唯一声响,就是波浪撞击着礁石那永不停息的、恼人的轰鸣。

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“他怎么会知道咱们在这儿?”在水里懒洋洋地游着的拉尔夫正被睡意笼罩着,就象充满蜃楼幻影的脑际正在同五光十色的环礁湖景致一比高低。

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“他怎么会知道咱们在这儿呢?”因为,拉尔夫想,因为,因为……从礁石处传来的浪涛声变得是那么的遥远。“他们会在飞机场告诉他的。”

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猪崽子摇摇头,戴上闪光的眼镜,俯视着拉尔夫。“他们不会。你没听驾驶员说原子弹的事吗?他们全死了。”

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从水里爬了出来的拉尔夫,面对猪崽子站着,这个不寻常的问题被他思考着。

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猪崽子不断问道:“这是个岛吗?”

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“我爬过山岩,”拉尔夫慢吞吞地回答,“我想这是个岛。”

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“他们死光了,”猪崽子说,“而这又是个岛。咱们在这儿的事情是绝对没人知道的。你爸爸不会知道,肯定其他人也不会知道——”他的眼镜被他微微颤动的嘴唇的雾气弄得模糊不清。

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“咱们将呆在这儿等死吗?”随着这个“死”字,暑热仿佛更加逼人。环礁湖也以令人目眩的灿烂袭击着他们。

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“我去拿衣服,”拉尔夫咕哝地说,“在那儿。”

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他忍着骄阳的毒焰,小步跑过沙滩,横穿过高出沙滩的平台,找到了他东一件西一件的衣服,再穿上灰衬衫倒觉得有一种说不出的惬意。  随后他又爬上平台的边缘,在绿荫里找了根适当的树干就坐下了。

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猪崽子费劲儿地爬了上来,手臂下夹着他的许多衣服,又小心翼翼地坐在一根倒下的树干上,靠近朝向环礁湖的小峭壁。他身上不停地晃动着湖水交错的反射光。

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一会儿猪崽子又说开了:“咱们得找找别人。咱们该干点事。”

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拉尔夫一言不发。这儿是座珊瑚岛。

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他避开了烈日的炙烤,也不在乎猪崽子那带凶兆的嘟哝,他照样儿做着自己快乐的梦。

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猪崽子仍顺着自己的话题往下说:“在这儿咱们有多少人?”

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拉尔夫走上前去,站在猪崽子身旁回答:“我不知道。”

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一阵阵微风在暑热烟霭的下面,拂过波光粼粼的水面。棕榈叶片在微风吹到平台时,发出簌簌的低吟,于是,在他俩身上浮掠过模糊的太阳光斑,象耀眼的带翅膀的小东西在树荫里跳跃。

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猪崽子仰望着拉尔夫,他脸上的阴影全反了,上半部是绿茵茵的,下半部由于环礁湖的反映,变得亮闪闪的。一道强光正抹过他的头发。

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“咱们总该干点事吧!”

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拉尔夫似旁若无人。一个想象中存在而从未得到充分实现的地方,终于在这儿一跃而成为活生生的现实了。

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猪崽子却把拉尔夫那快活得笑得合不拢嘴当作是对他的赏识,也满意地笑起来。

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“如果这真是个岛的话——”

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“那又怎么样呢?”止住了微笑的拉尔夫,用手指着环礁湖。

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他看到了在海蕨草中有个深米色的东西。

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“一块石头?”

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“不,一个贝壳。”忽然,高兴地猪崽子站了起来;他兴奋得倒也并不过份。

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“对。这是个贝壳,我以前在人家的后屋墙上见过。那人叫它海螺。他常吹,一吹他妈妈就来了。那东西可值钱哩——”

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有一棵靠拉尔夫的手肘边的小棕榈树苗倾斜到环礁湖上。由于小树苗本身的重量已经从贫瘠的泥土中拖出了一团泥块,这预示着它很快就要倒下了。

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拉尔夫拔出细树干,在水里拨弄起来,五颜六色的鱼左右逃窜。倾斜着身子的猪崽子,看上去很不稳。

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“当心!要断了——”

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“闭嘴。”拉尔夫不专心地说着。贝壳有趣、好看、是个值钱的玩意儿。拉尔夫好象在做白日梦,梦中生动的幻象萦绕在他和猪崽子之间,可猪崽子并不是他梦境中的人物。他用弯曲的棕榈树苗把贝壳推出了海藻,再用一只手当作支点抵住树枝,另一只手往下压细树苗的一端,直到把贝壳挑了上来,水滴滴嗒嗒地直往下淌,然后猪崽子一把抓住海螺。  此刻海螺不再是一个遥不可及的东西了,拉尔夫也变得兴奋起来。

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猪崽子唠唠叨叨地说:“——海螺;可真贵。我敢打赌,你要买个海螺,就得花好多、好多的钱——那人把海螺挂在花园围墙上,我姨妈——”

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从猪崽子手里拉尔夫接过贝壳,贝壳里的水顺他的手臂流下。贝壳是深米色的,点缀着淡淡的粉红斑点。在磨出一个小孔的贝壳尖和粉红色的贝壳嘴当中,壳体大概有十八英寸,略呈螺旋状,表面还有细致而巧妙的凸纹。壳内深处的沙子被拉尔夫摇晃出来。

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“——象头奶牛哞哞叫,”猪崽子说。

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“他还有些白石子,还有一只养着绿鹦鹉的鸟笼。他当然不会去吹那些石子,他说——”猪崽子停下来换了一口气,摸摸拉尔夫手里那个闪光的东西。

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“拉尔夫!”

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拉尔夫抬起头来。

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“咱们可以吹这个来集会。他们听见了会来的——”他笑看着拉尔夫。

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“这难道不是你的意思吗?你从水里捞起这只海螺就为这缘故吧?”

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金黄的头发被拉尔夫往后一撩。“你那朋友到底会不会吹海螺?”

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“他把海螺吹得像吐唾沫似的,”猪崽子说。“我姨妈不让我吹,因为我有气喘病。他说你吹气要从下面这儿使劲往贝壳里吹。”

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猪崽子把一只手放到他那鼓鼓的小肚子上。“你试试看,拉尔夫。别人会被召来的。”

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拉尔夫半信半疑,他把贝壳小的一头抵在嘴上吹起来。

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从贝壳嘴里冲出一阵急促的声音,然后就什么也听不到了。拉尔夫擦去嘴唇上的咸水,又试了一次,但贝壳里仍然没有一点声音出来。

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“他吹起来有点象吐唾沫似的。”拉尔夫噘起嘴往里鼓气,贝壳呜地冒出一种低沉的、放屁似的怪声。

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这下子两个男孩可被他逗乐了,在一阵阵高兴的笑声之中拉尔夫又使劲吹了几分钟。

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“他使劲儿的吹着下面。”拉尔夫这才抓住关键,运用横隔膜的气往贝壳里灌输。

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刹时那东西就响了。在掌心中一种低沉而又刺耳的声音嗡嗡作响,随后穿跃参差不齐的林海,到粉红色的花岗岩山才发出回声。无数的鸟儿从树梢上惊起,下层的林丛中则有什么动物在吱吱乱叫乱跑。

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拉尔夫将嘴边的贝壳拿走了。

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“天哪!”听过海螺刺耳的声音后,他那平常讲话的声音同它相比可真是天壤之别了。

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他把海螺顶住嘴唇,深吸一口,又吹了一下。螺声再次嗡嗡响起:然后随着他的力度,声音碰巧增到八度,比刚才那次更加刺耳。

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猪崽子哇哇地高喊,面带喜色,眼镜闪闪发亮。鸟儿在惊叫,小动物在疲于奔命的逃窜。拉尔夫接不上气了,声音跌下了八度的海螺,变成一股低沉的呜呜气流。

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海螺悄无声息,就象一支闪烁的獠牙,拉尔夫的脸由于没有及时的换上气而显得暗淡无光,岛的上空仍然停留着鸟儿的惊叫声以及各种回声。

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“我敢打赌,你在几英里外都听得见。“

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拉尔夫喘过气,又吹了一连串短促的强音。

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猪崽子惊喜地叫起来:“来了一个!”

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沿海滩约一百码的棕榈树林里冒出了一个男孩子。看起来他六岁上下,身体结实、头发金黄、衣衫褴褛,粘糊糊的野果浆汁把他的脸涂得一塌糊涂。

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为了某种明确的目的,他把裤子脱了下来,现在刚拉上一半。他跳进长着棕榈树的斜坡的沙滩当中,裤子再次滑到脚踝上,他一步步地走出沙滩,小步跑到平台。

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他上来的时候猪崽子帮了把忙。

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同一时刻,拉尔夫继续猛吹海螺,吹到林中响起了许多小孩的声音。小男孩蹲在拉尔夫面前,高兴地仰起头来看着拉尔夫。

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等到他肯定地知道他们将共同干点事情时,脸上露出微笑,并把他惟一一只还算干净的肉色大拇指放进嘴巴。

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猪崽子向他弯下腰去。

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“你叫什么名字?”

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“约翰尼。”

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猪崽子自言自语的说着这个名字,随后大声地说给拉尔夫听,而拉尔夫对此却没有丝毫兴趣,因为他还在使劲地吹海螺。

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拉尔夫为吹出这种巨大的声响而兴奋至极,使他的脸紫涨着,他的心似乎跳得连敞开的衬衫也在颤动。森林中有片呼喊声由远及近而来。海滩上此刻出现了一派生机勃勃的景象。

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左右伸展开达几英里长,在暑热烟霭底下使沙滩都好似震颤着,时隐时现着许多人影。

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一群男孩子踏着烫人而无声的海滩,而朝这边拥来。三个同约翰尼差不多的小孩子从近得令人吃惊的地方突地冒了出来。他们方才一直在森林里狼吞虎咽地大嚼野果。

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一个肤色黝黑、同猪崽子一般大的孩子,拨开一处矮灌木林丛然后钻出来,走到了平台上,快乐地朝大伙儿笑笑。

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更多的孩子们赶来了。他们从天真的约翰尼身上得到启示,坐在倒下的棕榈树干上等着。

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拉尔夫一个劲儿地猛吹出短促又刺耳的海螺声。猪崽子则在人群中忙前忙后,问名问姓并皱眉蹙额地记着这些名字。

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孩子们都听猪崽子,就象过去什么都听从带话筒的大人一样。有些孩子光着身子,提着衣服;有的半裸着身子,或者多少穿点衣服;有穿各种学校制服,灰色、蓝色、浅黄色的;有穿茄克衫或线衫的;有穿着彩条纹袜子和紧身上衣的;还有戴着各种徽章,甚至格言牌的。在绿荫里横卧着的树干之上,人头攒动,头发有褐色的、金黄的、黑色的、栗色的、淡茶色的、鼠灰色的。都在那儿窃窃私语,都睁大着眼睛观察着拉尔夫,猜测着某种事情将要进行。

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越过暑热烟霭到达附近沙滩的交接部分的沿着海滩单独地或三三两两地走来的孩子,变得更加清晰可见。

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在这儿,孩子们的眼光先被一个在沙滩上舞动着的、黑黑的、蝙蝠样的东西吸引住了,随后才察觉到这上面的身体。

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原来蝙蝠样的东西是一个孩子的身影,由于垂直的阳光照射而在杂乱的脚步之中缩成的一块斑影。

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当拉尔夫在吹海螺时,也注意到了最后两个随风飘动的黑斑影似的身体已经到达平台。

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两个脑袋尖尖、长着琐碎头发的男孩,象狗似的趴倒在拉尔夫面前,躺在那里气喘吁吁地露齿而笑。

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他们俩是双胞胎,酷似一个人,此刻正微笑着,孩子们见了都很惊讶,简直难以相信自己的眼睛。

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双胞胎一块儿喘着气,一块儿咧嘴而笑,矮小结实,而又生气勃勃。他们俩朝拉尔夫抬起潮湿的嘴唇。

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好象是因为身体不够壮,所以他们的侧影显得模糊不清,嘴巴倒张得挺大。猪崽子朝他们弯下身子,明亮的眼镜对着他们,在此起彼伏的海螺声中重复着他们两人的名字。

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“萨姆埃里克,萨姆埃里克。”猪崽子一时分不清,双胞胎晃着脑袋,指来点去,大伙儿哈哈大笑。

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拉尔夫终于收起海螺,一只手提着海螺,坐在那儿,脑袋耷拉在膝盖上。海螺的回声听不到了,随后笑声渐渐隐退,一片静谧。

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在海滩钻石般闪烁的烟霭中某种黑漆漆的东西正在摸索前来。拉尔夫首先看到他注视着,他聚精会神的眼光渐渐把所有孩子的眼光都牵引到那个方向。

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接着那个东西从烟霭中走到了清晰的沙滩上,这下孩子们才看到黑乎乎的不都是阴影,却大多是衣服。

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那东西是一队男孩,他们穿着让人很少看到的怪衣服,排成并列的两行,步调一致。他们手里拿着短裤、衬衫,提着各种衣服,但每个男孩都戴一顶有银色帽徽的黑方帽。

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他们的身体从喉咙到脚跟都被黑斗篷裹着,一个长长的、银色的十字架佩在左胸前,每个人的颈部都被丑角服装上用的褶叠花边领装饰着。带着暑热,翻山越岭,寻找食物,此刻再加上光线强烈得令人目眩的海滩更让人大汗淋漓,使他们的皮肤红得就象刚洗过的梅子。

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管他们的一个男孩同他们穿着一样,除了他的帽徽是金色的。

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这支队伍离平台约十码远时,他一声令下,队伍停住,在炙烤的阳光下他们都喘着粗气,汗如雨下,东摇西晃。这个男孩独自往前走来,斗篷一甩,攀上平台,此刻他仍盯着前面看,尽管在他眼前几乎是漆黑一片。

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“带喇叭的大人在哪儿?”

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拉尔夫觉察到太阳的强烈使他的眼睛看不清东西,回答道:“这儿没有带喇叭的大人。只有我。”

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这男孩往前走,眼光向下,盯着拉尔夫,同时皱起面孔。

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看见了一个膝盖上搁着深米色贝壳的金发男孩,这似乎并没有使他满足。他快速转过身来,黑斗篷兜着圈圈。

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“那么,有没有船呢?”从拂动着的斗篷里可以看出他是个大身架的瘦高个儿,黑帽子下露出红头发。

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他脸上长着痤疮和雀斑,长相难看,但不显得傻气。此刻虽有点沮丧的两只浅蓝色的眼睛看向前方,但又露出即将发怒的样子,或者说随时准备发怒的样子。

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“大人不在这儿喽?”拉尔夫在他背后回答:“没有,可我们正开会呢。来参加吧。”

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挤得紧紧的队列被穿斗篷的男孩们挤散了。

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高个子的男孩对他们喊道:“合唱队!立正!”队员们照做,但他们精疲力竭,挤在一起排成一个队列,在阳光下站在那里左右摇摆。

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其中也有一些开始小声抱怨起来:“可是,梅瑞狄。请问,梅瑞狄……我们可不可以……?”

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一个男孩就在那时突然噗地一声合脸倒在沙滩上,队伍一下子没了秩序。

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立刻,摔倒在地的男孩被他们抬到平台上,让他躺下。

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梅瑞狄瞪着眼,无可奈何地说:“那好吧。坐下。随便他。”

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“可是,梅瑞狄。”

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“晕倒的总是他,”梅瑞狄说,“在直布罗陀晕倒;在亚的斯亚贝巴晕倒,而且在晨祷时还晕倒在指挥身上呢!”合唱队员为这最后一句行话引得一阵窃笑,他们象一群黑鸟似的依附在横七竖八的树干上,饶有兴致地观察着拉尔夫。

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猪崽子没敢再问名字。这种整齐划一所产生的优越感,还有梅瑞狄口气中毫不客气流露出的权威性,让他惊呆。他畏畏缩缩地退到拉尔夫的另一边,眼镜被他拨弄着玩了起来。

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梅瑞狄转向拉尔夫。

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“一个大人也没有吗?”

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“没有。”

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梅瑞狄坐在树干上东张西望。“那么我们只好自己料理自己的事情了。”

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有了安全感的猪崽子在拉尔夫的另一边怯生生地说道:“为了决定下一步我们怎么办,拉尔夫才召开这个会。我们已经晓得了一些名字。那是约翰尼。那两个——他们是双胞胎,萨姆和埃里克。哪个是埃里克——?你?不——你是萨姆——”

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“我是萨姆——”“我是埃里克。”

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“最好大家能说出自己的名字,”拉尔夫说道,“我叫拉尔夫。”

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“大部分人的名字我们已经知道了,”猪崽子说。“这些名字是刚知道的。”

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“小孩儿的名字,”梅瑞狄说。“为什么偏要叫我杰克?我叫梅瑞狄。”

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很快地朝他转过身的拉尔夫。听得出这是一个自己会拿主意的人。

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“还有,”猪崽子继续说道,“那个男孩——我忘了——”

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“你说得够多的了。”杰克·梅瑞狄说。“闭嘴,胖子。”

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一阵大笑。

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“胖子不是他的名字,”拉尔夫喊道,“他名叫猪崽子!”

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“猪崽子!”

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“猪崽子哟!”

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“嗬,猪崽子哟!”一下子响起了暴风雨般的笑声,在笑着的也包括最小的孩子。

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片刻之间除了猪崽子,其他男孩子们都连成一气:猪崽子脸色通红,耷拉着脑袋,又擦起眼镜来。

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笑声总算过去了,又继续点名。

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在合唱队里一直粗俗地龇牙咧嘴的那个男孩是莫里斯,他的个儿仅次于杰克。还有个谁也不熟悉的鬼头鬼脑的瘦个子男孩,他独来独往,一副躲躲闪闪、偷偷摸摸的样子。

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他喃喃地说完他叫罗杰,又闷不做声了。还有比尔、罗伯特……,刚才晕倒的现在靠着一根棕榈树干坐着的那个合唱队男孩,毫无血色的脸朝拉尔夫微笑,说西蒙是我的名字。杰克说话了。

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“咱们该想一个办法,想想怎么才能得救。”

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一阵嘈杂之声。

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一个叫亨利的小男孩喊着要回家。

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“住口,”拉尔夫举起海螺漫不经心地说着。

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“我觉得该有个头儿来对某些事情下决定。”

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“一个头儿!一个头儿!”

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“我该当头儿,”杰克骄矜地说,“因为我是合唱队的领唱,又是领头的。而且我还会唱升C调。”

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一阵闹哄哄的声音再次响起。“那好吧,”杰克说,“我——”他犹豫不决了。

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后来那个叫罗杰的、黑黝黝的男孩动弹一下,讲话了。“大伙儿投票表决。”

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“对呀!”

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“选一个头儿!”

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“大伙儿选——”这场选举的游戏同海螺一样那么令人开心。

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杰克开始反对,但是希望有个头的要求已经变成一种呼声,而且拉尔夫本人也大声表示赞同。

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对于这种现象的解释是没有一个男孩能找出充分理由来的,猪崽子感到事情已成定局,头头非杰克莫属。

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然而,坐在那里的拉尔夫,身上有着某种镇定自若的风度,又那么与众不同:他有那样的身材,外貌也很迷人。

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而最最说不清的,或许也是最强有力的,那就是他拥有海螺。他是惟一吹过海螺的人,现正坐在平台上等着大家选他,那碰不起的东西被他安安稳稳地搁在膝盖上,这一点是无人能比的。

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“选那个有贝壳的。”

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“拉尔夫!拉尔夫!”

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“让那个有喇叭玩意儿的人当头。”

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拉尔夫举起一手以示安静。“好了。谁要杰克当头?”

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带着一种沉闷的气氛合唱队把手举了起来。

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“谁要我当?”

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除合唱队、猪崽子以外,剩下的人都立刻举起了手。随后猪崽子也把手勉强地举了起来。拉尔夫点着数。

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“头领的头衔归我了。”

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孩子们高兴地鼓起掌来,甚至连合唱队员也拍起手来。

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杰克恼羞成怒,脸红得连雀斑都看不见了。他刷地站起来,接着又改变主意坐下。与此同时,闹哄哄的声音不绝于耳。拉尔夫瞧着杰克,急于表达什么。

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“合唱队归你,当然。”

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“他们确能组成一支队伍——”

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“或当猎手——”“他们可以当——”杰克红涨的脸色渐渐恢复了原色。

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拉尔夫又挥手示意安静。

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“杰克负责管合唱队。他们可以当——你要他们当什么?”

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“猎手。”杰克和拉尔夫都对彼此有一种羞怯的好感因而两个人相互微笑着。

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其余的男孩迫不及待地讲起话来。

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杰克站起身。

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“好了,合唱队,脱掉你们的外套。”

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合唱队的男孩子就象下课一样,一立而起,一面叽叽喳喳地说着话,一面黑斗篷被堆在草地上。

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杰克把自己的衣服往拉尔夫身旁的树干上一撂。

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被汗水浸湿的灰短裤紧贴在他身上。

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杰克注意到了拉尔夫无比钦佩的看着他们的目光,解释道:“刚才我想知道四周是否被水围着。于是就想爬过那座小山。可你的海螺声把我们给召来了。”

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拉尔夫微笑着,他举起海螺以示安静。

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“大伙儿听着。我得有空儿把事情仔细想想。我没法对一件事情立刻决定该怎么办。如果这不是个岛,或许咱们马上就会获救。因此咱们得弄清这是不是一个岛。大家都必须呆在附近,别走开。我们三个——很多人去了就会把事情搞得很糟,还会互相丢失——我们三个先去摸摸底,把事情弄弄清楚。我去,还有杰克,还有,还有……”

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他环顾着四周一张张急切的面孔等着被他点到。“还有西蒙。”

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西蒙站起来也对周围吃吃笑着的男孩微微地笑了。

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西蒙因发晕而苍白的脸色已恢复了正常,让人很容易看出,他虽瘦小,却是个挺精神的小男孩。

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炯炯的目光从披散下来的、又黑又粗又乱的头发下露出。

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他朝拉尔夫点点头。

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“我去。”

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“还有我——”杰克嗖地把一个相当大的刀子从身后的刀鞘里拔了出来。一下子捅进了树干。

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响起了一阵窃窃私语声,随后又恢复了平静。

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猪崽子嚷嚷道:“我也要去。”

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拉尔夫向他转过身去。“这种事你干不了。”

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“我反正要去——”

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“你去了也没有用,”杰克直截了当地说。“三个就够了。”

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猪崽子的眼镜闪烁着光。“我跟他在一起是他刚找到海螺的时候,比谁都早。”

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对这点来说,杰克和别的孩子们都毫不在意。

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眼下大伙儿已经散开。

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拉尔夫、杰克和西蒙跃过平台,沿着沙滩走过洗澡的水潭。在他们身后猪崽子跌跌撞撞地尾随着。

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“要是西蒙走在咱俩当中,”拉尔夫说道,“那咱们就可以在他头顶上讲话。”

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三个孩子把脚步加快。这就使西蒙不得不加快步子跟上他们。

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不一会儿猪崽子被停住脚转着身的拉尔夫看着。

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杰克和西蒙装作什么也没注意到,继续赶路。

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“你不能跟上来。”

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猪崽子的眼镜覆盖了一层雾气——这回还带着一种蒙羞受辱的感觉。

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“你告诉了他们。我说了以后还告诉他们。”他嘴巴颤动着,满脸通红。

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“我说过我不要——”

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“你到底在说什么呀?”

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“关于把我叫猪崽子的事。我说过只要他们不叫我猪崽子,别的我就不在乎。我还说别告诉人,然而你却一下子说了出去——”

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两个孩子都不出声了。拉尔夫恍然大悟地瞧着猪崽子,看出他的感情受到伤害,正气得要命。

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拉尔夫踌躇着,到底是道歉一声好,还是干脆火上浇油。

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“叫你胖子比叫猪崽子好听,”拉尔夫最后说,又带着一种真正领导派头的直率说道,“不管怎么样,要是你感到满意,我为此而抱歉。好了,回去吧,猪崽子,去点名。你该做那活儿。回头见。”

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拉尔夫转身向另外两个追去。

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猪崽子停住脚,双颊上的怒容慢慢地消失了。

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他往后走向了平台的方向。

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三个男孩轻快地走在沙滩上。海水平静,一长条布满海藻的海滩坚硬得几乎象条路。

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孩子们感觉到一种魅力扩展到他们和周围景色之上,为此神采奕奕。

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他们相互对望,大声嬉笑,说个不停,可谁也没有把别人的话听进去。

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气氛明朗而欢快。拉尔夫要将这所有这一切作出解释,他来了个拿大顶,又倒了过来。西蒙在三个孩子笑完后怯生生地触触拉尔夫的手臂;他们又情不自禁地笑起来。

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“前进,”杰克跟着说,“咱们是探险家。”

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“咱们要走到岛的尽头,”拉尔夫说道,“到岛角上去转转看。”

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“假如这是个岛——”

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傍晚将至,烟雾逐渐地散去。他们把岛的尽头看得一清二楚,在形状和感觉上都没有新意。

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那是一个很平常的方方的混杂地形,还有一大块巨石坐落在环礁湖里,海鸟正在上头营窝作巢。

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“正象一层糖霜,”拉尔夫说,“是在粉红色蛋糕上的糖霜。”

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“这个地方找不到什么,”杰克说,“因为就连一块大岩石也看不到,只有个弧形地段——而且,你们看到的也不过是乱极了的山岩——”拉尔夫用手遮着刺眼的太阳光,眼光随着一片岩——沿着高低不平的山的轮廓望去。这一部分的海滩比他们见过的其他部分都更靠近山。

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“咱们从这儿爬试试看,”他说。

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“我认为从这条路上山最方便。这儿丛林植物少点,粉红色的岩石较多。来吧。”

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三个男孩开始向上登攀。

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一路上的山石不知是被什么力量弄得扭曲砸碎七歪八倒的放着,你堆我叠地垒作一团。

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这山岩最常见的特征是:在一个粉红岩石的峭壁顶上盖着一大块歪斜的巨石,而在这之上又接二连三地压着石头,直至保持着平衡这一片粉红色的山岩才形成一整块,这一整块岩石穿过互相交缠的藤蔓伸向晴空。

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在粉红色的峭壁拔地而起的地方,有许多狭窄的小径逶迤而上。这些小径深陷在一片植物世界之中,孩子们可以面对山岩侧身沿着小径爬上去。

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“这种小径是怎样形成的呢?”杰克停了一下,擦着脸上的汗水。

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拉尔夫气喘吁吁地站在他身旁。

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“是人吗?”

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杰克摇摇头。

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“是动物。”

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拉尔夫直盯着黑洞洞的树底。

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森林正在微微地颤动着。

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“继续往前走。”

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沿着崎岖的山脊向上登攀倒还容易,要穿越矮灌木林丛到达新的小路那就困难了。

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在这儿,无数藤蔓的根茎相互交缠,孩子们不得不象穿针引线似的在其中前进。

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此时山坡的倾斜趋势是他们的唯一向导,看那些四周长满粗大藤蔓的洞穴,是不是这一个高过那一个。

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孩子们慢慢地、竭尽所能地向上攀爬着。在可以说是他们陷在这些缠绕着的乱糟糟的植物中的最困难的时候,拉尔夫目光闪闪地回顾着另两个。

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“真带劲。”

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“好极了!”“没话说。”他们并没有理由该这样高兴。三个人全都热得要死、脏得要命、身体也精疲力尽。拉尔夫身上给划得一塌糊涂。藤蔓有碗口粗,紧紧地缠绕在一起,仅留很小的间隙,只能钻过去。拉尔夫试着叫了几声,他们只听到了低沉的回音。

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“这才是真正的探险。”杰克说道。

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“我敢打赌,以前肯定没有人来过这儿。”

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“咱们该画张地图,”拉尔夫说,“可是没纸。”

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“咱们可以往树皮上划,”西蒙说道,“再使劲把黑的东西往里嵌。”

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三人在暗淡的光线中眨着亮闪闪的眼睛,进行着严肃的交流。

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“真带劲。”

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“好极了!”这儿可没地方拿大顶了。

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这次拉尔夫激情发泄是装作要把西蒙撞倒,一会儿在幽暗的树丛底下他们就喘着粗气,乐成一团。

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互相分开以后,拉尔夫先开了口。“得再走喽!”从藤蔓和树丛出去,前面是一个粉红色的花岗岩峭壁,离这儿隔着一段路,因而孩子们可以沿着小路小步往上跑。走过小路前面的视野更加开阔了,他们可以瞥见一望无际的大海。骄阳不露缝隙地照在小路上,阳光将他们在黑暗和潮湿的暑热中浸透的衣服晒干了。

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通向山巅看上去这最后一段路就象在粉红岩石上的蔓草,蜿蜒而上,却不再投入黑暗之中。孩子们择路穿越狭窄的山路,翻过碎石砂砾的陡坡。

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“瞧哪!瞧哪!”在这一端高处的岛上,四散的岩石隆起着,有的象草垛,有的象烟囱。那块大石头被杰克一推就动,发出刺耳的轧轧声。

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“前进——”但不是“前进”到山顶去。要等到三个孩子接受如下的挑战要赶到突击顶峰之前:前面横着大似小汽车样的岩石。

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“嗨哟!”岩石伴着节拍摇来摇去。“嗨哟!”摆动的幅度越来越大,直增大到逼近能维持平衡的临界点——来一下——再来一下——“嗨哟!”

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那块大石头摇动在一个支点上,不停地晃晃荡荡,决然一去不返,它越过空中,摔下去,撞击着,翻着筋斗,在空中蹦跳着,发出深沉的嗡嗡声,森林的翠顶被它砸出一个大洞。回声四起,鸟儿惊飞,那儿弥漫着白色的、粉红色的尘灰。远处再下面的森林象个发怒的恶魔经过似的震颤着;然后海岛再次平静下来。

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“真带劲!”“真象一颗炸弹!”“喂——啊——呜!”他们在胜利的喜悦之中足足沉浸了好几分钟。终于离开这地方朝前走。通向山顶之后的路就容易了。拉尔夫在他们离山顶还有最后一段路时在原地停住了。“天哪!”他们正处在山侧的一个圆山谷边上,确切说是半圆的山谷边上。这儿盛开着蓝蓝的野花——一种岩生植物。溢流顺着口子垂荡下去,水沫乱溅落到森林的翠顶上。各种彩蝶在空中翩翩飞舞、忽上忽下忙个不停。

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方方的山头与圆山谷还有一点距离,不一会儿他们就已站在山顶上了。他们在登上山顶以前就猜到了这是个岛:因为在粉红色的岩石中向上爬时,两侧都是大海,高空极其明澈,孩子们本能的意识到四面都是大海。可他们感到,似乎等站到山顶上,同时看到圆环状的海平线时,最后再下结论更合适些。

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拉尔夫回头对另两个说:“这个岛归咱们了。”

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海岛有点儿象船:他们所立之处地势隆起,他们身后曲折的地形下延到海岸。

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两边都是千奇百怪的岩石、峭壁、树梢,山坡很陡。

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正前方,在船身的范围之内,地形下降的坡度稍稍缓和一些,绿树将土地覆盖。有的地方露出粉红色的岩石。

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再过去是岛上伸展开来的平坦而浓绿的丛林,最后以一块粉红色的岩石而告终。就在这个岛即将被海水淹没的地方,有着另外一个岛:几乎是同海岛分开有一块象城堡似的岩石矗立着,隔着绿色的海面与孩子们相对,象一个不可跨越的粉红岩石的棱堡。

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孩子们俯瞰着这所有的一切,随后他们站得高高的向大海远眺。

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下午已经过去,而景象仍依稀可见,并没有受到烟霭的干扰。

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“那是礁石呢?一座珊瑚礁。我见过这样的图片。”

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这礁石从两、三个方向环绕着小岛,它们位于一英里之外的海中,跟现在孩子们把这儿叫海滩的地方相平行。珊瑚礁在海中散布着,就好象一个巨人曾弯腰要为海岛的轮廓划一条流动的白粉线,可还没来得及划好就因累而作罢。礁石内侧:海水绚烂、暗礁林立、海藻丛生,就象水族馆里的生态展览一样。湛蓝的大海在礁石的外侧。海潮滚滚,礁石那边拖着长长的银白色的浪花泡沫,这让他们感到仿佛是大船正在稳稳地后退着。

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杰克指着下面。

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“那是咱们登陆的地方啊!”一道明显的缺口在树林中,在瀑布和峭壁之外:那是断树残干,往后延伸,在孤岩和大海之间剩下一抹棕榈所造成的。也正在那儿,突入环礁湖的是那块高出的平台,周围有小虫似的人影在跳动着。

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从他们所站的平地拉尔夫朝斜坡方向往下看,模糊的看到一条曲折的线,那是一条穿过野花,盘旋直下到一块岩石的溪谷,孤岩就从那里开始。

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“这条路回去最快。”孩子们眼睛闪着亮光,兴奋得合不拢嘴,他们凯旋而归,品尝着占有的欢乐。他们精神振奋,彼此都成了好朋友。“  没有炊烟,也没有船只,”拉尔夫聪明地说。“咱们以后会吃准这点;这样的岛就不会有人住。”

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“咱们要找吃的,”杰克叫道。“打猎。抓猎物……等到有人找到咱们为止。

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”西蒙瞧瞧他们俩,什么也没说,可不住地点头,弄得黑头发前后乱甩,使他的脸容光焕发。拉尔夫俯瞰着没有礁石的另一个方向。

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“还要陡呢!”杰克说。

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拉尔夫用手做成一个倒放着的杯子的形状。

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“那下面有一小片森林……山把那片森林抬高了。”满山遍野的长着各种野花和乔木。此刻森林骚动起来,萧声阵阵,此起彼伏。附近成片的岩生野花拂动着,一会儿带着凉意的微风吹到了他们的脸上。

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拉尔夫将双臂伸开。

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“全是咱们的。”孩子们在山上欢呼雀跃着。

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“我饿了。”西蒙一提起饿,别的孩子也有同感。

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“走吧!”拉尔夫说道。“咱们已经弄清楚想要了解的事情了。”

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他们翻过一道岩石斜坡,落到一片野花丛中,又在树下寻路前行。他们停到了那块地上,好奇地观察着四周的矮灌木丛。

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“象蜡烛。蜡烛矮树。蜡烛花蕾。”矮灌木丛是墨绿的长青树,花香四溢,好多光滑的绿色花蕾叠着花瓣朝向阳光。杰克拿刀一砍,香沫四溅。

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“蜡烛花蕾。”

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孩子们又开始进入茂密的森林,他们迈着沉重的步伐扑通扑通地行走在一条小径上,突然听见一阵噪声——短促刺耳的尖叫声——小路上留下了蹄子沉重撞击地面的声音。

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它惊恐万分,发疯似的朝四下挣扎着,不断发出尖叫声。

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接着小野猪摆脱了藤蔓的束缚,急忙奔进矮灌木林丛。只剩下孩子们面面相觑,看着那恐怖的地方。

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杰克苍白的脸将雀斑衬得一清二楚。他意识到自己还高举着刀子,便垂下手臂把刀身插入鞘内。一时他们全都羞愧地笑起来,又开始爬回原来的小径。

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“我正要,”杰克说。他走在头里,另两个看不到他的表情。“我正在找地方。下一回——”

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他一把将刀子从刀鞘中拔出,猛地砍进一棵树的树干。下一回可不发菩萨心肠了。他狂野地环顾着四周,挑战似的看看有谁敢反驳。随后他们一下跑进了阳光里,不一会儿就边忙着找东西吃,边顺着孤岩走向平台去开会了。

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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.

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"Hi!" it said. "Wait a minute!"

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The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.

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"Wait a minute," the voice said. "I got caught up."

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The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties.

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The voice spoke again."I can't hardly move with all these creeper things."

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The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy windbreaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.

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"Where's the man with the megaphone?"

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The fair boy shook his head.

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"This is an island. At least I think it's an island. That's a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there aren't any grownups anywhere."

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The fat boy looked startled.

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"There was that pilot. But he wasn't in the passenger cabin, he was up in front."

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The fair boy was peering at the reef through screwed-up eyes.

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"All them other kids," the fat boy went on. "Some of them must have got out. They must have, mustn't they?"

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The fair boy began to pick his way as casually as possible toward the water. He tried to be offhand and not too obviously uninterested, but the fat boy hurried after him.

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"Aren't there any grownups at all?"

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"I don't think so."

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The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy.

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"No grownups!"

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The fat boy thought for a moment.

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"That pilot."

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The fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth.

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"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a place with wheels."

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"We was attacked!"

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"He'll be back all right."

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The fat boy shook his head.

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"When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane.There were flames coming out of it."

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He looked up and down the scar.

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"And this is what the cabin done."

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The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. For a moment he looked interested.

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"What happened to it?" he asked. "Where's it got to now?"

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"That storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling. There must have been some kids still in it."

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He hesitated for a moment, then spoke again.

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"What's your name?"

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"Ralph."

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The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon. The fat boy hung steadily at his shoulder.

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"I expect there's a lot more of us scattered about. You haven't seen any others, have you?"

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Ralph shook his head and increased his speed. Then he tripped over a branch and came down with a crash.

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The fat boy stood by him, breathing hard.

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"My auntie told me not to run," he explained, "on account of my asthma."

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"Ass-mar?"

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"That's right. Can't catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three."

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He took off his glasses and held them out to Ralph, blinking and smiling, and then started to wipe them against his grubby wind-breaker. An expression of pain and inward concentration altered the pale contours of his face. He smeared the sweat from his cheeks and quickly adjusted the spectacles on his nose.

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"Them fruit."

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He glanced round the scar.

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"Them fruit," he said, "I expect--"

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He put on his glasses, waded away from Ralph, and crouched down among the tangled foliage.

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"I'll be out again in just a minute--"

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Ralph disentangled himself cautiously and stole away through the branches. In a few seconds the fat boy's grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon. He climbed over a broken trunk and was out of the jungle.

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The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar. Ralph stood, one hand against a grey trunk, and screwed up his eyes against the shimmering water. Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple. The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.

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He jumped down from the terrace. The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him. He became conscious of the weight of clothes, kicked his shoes off fiercely and ripped off each stocking with its elastic garter in a single movement. Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin. He undid the snakeclasp of his belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood there naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water.

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He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil. He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island laughed delightedly again and stood on his head. He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest. Then he sat back and looked at the water with bright, excited eyes.

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"Ralph--"

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The fat boy lowered himself over the terrace and sat down carefully, using the edge as a seat.

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"I'm sorry I been such a time. Them fruit--"

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He wiped his glasses and adjusted them on his button nose. The frame had made a deep, pink "V" on the bridge. He looked critically at Ralph's golden body and then down at his own clothes. He laid a hand on the end of a zipper that extended down his chest.

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"My auntie--"

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Then he opened the zipper with decision and pulled the whole wind-breaker over his head.

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"There!"

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Ralph looked at him sidelong and said nothing.

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"I expect we'll want to know all their names," said the fat boy, "and make a list. We ought to have a meeting."

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Ralph did not take the hint so the fat boy was forced to continue.

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"I don't care what they call me," he said confidentially, "so long as they don't call me what they used to call me at school."

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Ralph was faintly interested.

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"What was that?"

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The fat boy glanced over his shoulder, then leaned toward Ralph.

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He whispered.

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"They used to call me 'Piggy.'"

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Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up.

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"Piggy! Piggy!"

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"Ralph--please!"

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Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension.

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"I said I didn't want--"

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"Piggy! Piggy!"

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Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy.

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"Sche-aa-ow!"

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He dived in the sand at Piggy's feet and lay there laughing.

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"Piggy!"

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Piggy grinned reluctantly, pleased despite himself at even this much recognition.

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"So long as you don't tell the others--"

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Ralph giggled into the sand. The expression of pain and concentration returned to Piggy's face.

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"Half a sec'."

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He hastened back into the forest. Ralph stood up and trotted along to the right.

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Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon. Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eye, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green. He picked his way to the seaward edge of the platform and stood looking down into the water. It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral. A school of tiny, glittering fish flicked hither and thither. Ralph spoke to himself, sounding the bass strings of delight.

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"Whizzoh!"

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Beyond the platform there was more enchantment. Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end. Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed. But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green. Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in. The water was warmer than his blood and he might have been swimming in a huge bath.

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Piggy appeared again, sat on the rocky ledge, and watched Ralph's green and white body enviously.

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"You can't half swim."

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"Piggy."

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Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them carefully on the ledge, and tested the water with one toe.

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"It's hot!"

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"What did you expect?"

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"I didn't expect nothing. My auntie--"

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"Sucks to your auntie!"

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Ralph did a surface dive and swam under water with his eyes open; the sandy edge of the pool loomed up like a hillside. He turned over, holding his nose, and a golden light danced and shattered just over his face. Piggy was looking determined and began to take off his shorts. Presently he was palely and fatly naked. He tiptoed down the sandy side of the pool, and sat there up to his neck in water smiling proudly at Ralph.

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"Aren't you going to swim?"

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Piggy shook his head.

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"I can't swim. I wasn't allowed. My asthma--"

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"Sucks to your ass-mar!"

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Piggy bore this with a sort of humble patience. "You can't half swim well."

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Ralph paddled backwards down the slope, immersed his mouth and blew a jet of water into the air. Then he lifted his chin and spoke.

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"I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He's a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave he'll come and rescue us. What's your father?"

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Piggy flushed suddenly.

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"My dad's dead," he said quickly, "and my mum--"

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He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.

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"I used to live with my auntie. She kept a candy store. I used to get ever so many candies. As many as I liked. When'll your dad rescue us?"

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"Soon as he can."

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Piggy rose dripping from the water and stood naked, cleaning his glasses with a sock. The only sound that reached them now through the heat of the morning was the long, grinding roar of the breakers on the reef.

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"How does he know we're here?"

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Ralph lolled in the water. Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.

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"How does he know we're here?"

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Because, thought Ralph, because, because. The roar from the reef became very distant.

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"They'd tell him at the airport."

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Piggy shook his head, put on his flashing glasses and looked down at Ralph.

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"Not them. Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead."

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Ralph pulled himself out of the water, stood facing Piggy, and considered this unusual problem.

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Piggy persisted.

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"This an island, isn't it?"

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"I climbed a rock," said Ralph slowly, "and I think this is an island."

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"They're all dead," said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here. Your dad don't know, nobody don't know--"

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His lips quivered and the spectacles were dimmed with mist.

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"We may stay here till we die."

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With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.

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"Get my clothes," muttered Ralph. "Along there."

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He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes. To put on a grey shirt once more was strangely pleasing. Then he climbed the edge of the platform and sat in the green shade on a convenient trunk. Piggy hauled himself up, carrying most of his clothes under his arms. Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him.

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Presently he spoke.

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"We got to find the others. We got to do something."

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Ralph said nothing. Here was a coral island. Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.

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Piggy insisted.

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"How many of us are there?"

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Ralph came forward and stood by Piggy.

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"I don't know."

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Here and there, little breezes crept over the polished waters beneath the haze of heat. When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.

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Piggy looked up at Ralph. All the shadows on Ralph's face were reversed; green above, bright below from the lagoon. A blur of sunlight was crawling across his hair.

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"We got to do something."

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Ralph looked through him. Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life. Ralph's lips parted in a delighted smile and Piggy, taking this smile to himself as a mark of recognition, laughed with pleasure.

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"If it really is an island--"

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"What's that?"

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Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.

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"A stone."

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"No. A shell."

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Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.

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"S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable--"

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Near to Ralph's elbow a palm sapling leaned out over the lagoon. Indeed, the weight was already pulling a lump from the poor soil and soon it would fall. He tore out the stem and began to poke about in the water, while the brilliant fish flicked away on this side and that. Piggy leaned dangerously.

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"Careful! You'll break it--"

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"Shut up."

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Ralph spoke absently. The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance. The palm sapling, bending, pushed the shell across the weeds. Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose, dripping, and Piggy could make a grab.

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Now the shell was no longer a thing seen but not to be touched, Ralph too became excited. Piggy babbled:

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"--a conch; ever so expensive. I bet if you wanted to buy one, you'd have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds--he had it on his garden wall, and my auntie--"

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Ralph took the shell from Piggy and a little water ran down his arm. In color the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with fading pink. Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. Ralph shook sand out of the deep tube.

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"--mooed like a cow," he said. "He had some white stones too, an' a bird cage with a green parrot. He didn't blow the white stones, of course, an' he said--"

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Piggy paused for breath and stroked the glistening thing that lay in Ralph's hands.

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"Ralph!"

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Ralph looked up.

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"We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us--"

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He beamed at Ralph.

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"That was what you meant, didn't you? That's why you got the conch out of the water?"

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Ralph pushed back his fair hair.

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"How did your friend blow the conch?"

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"He kind of spat," said Piggy. "My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma. He said you blew from down here." Piggy laid a hand on his jutting abdomen. "You try, Ralph. You'll call the others."

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Doubtfully, Ralph laid the small end of the shell against his mouth and blew. There came a rushing sound from its mouth but nothing more. Ralph wiped the salt water off his lips and tried again, but the shell remained silent.

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"He kind of spat."

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Ralph pursed his lips and squirted air into the shell, which emitted a low, farting noise. This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter.

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"He blew from down here."

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Ralph grasped the idea and hit the shell with air from his diaphragm. Immediately the thing sounded. A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest and echoed back from the pink granite of the mountain. Clouds of birds rose from the treetops, and something squealed and ran in the undergrowth.

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Ralph took the shell away from his lips.

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"Gosh!"

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His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch. He laid the conch against his lips, took a deep breath and blew once more. The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before. Piggy was shouting something, his face pleased, his glasses flashing. The birds cried, small animals scuttered. Ralph's breath failed; the note dropped the octave, became a low wubber, was a rush of air.

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The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph's face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.

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"I bet you can hear that for miles."

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Ralph found his breath and blew a series of short blasts.

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Piggy exclaimed: "There's one!"

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A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach. He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit. His trousers had been lowered for an obvious purpose and had only been pulled back half-way. He jumped off the palm terrace into the sand and his trousers fell about his ankles; he stepped out of them and trotted to the platform. Piggy helped him up. Meanwhile Ralph continued to blow till voices shouted in the forest. The small boy squatted in front of Ralph, looking up brightly and vertically. As he received the reassurance of something purposeful being done he began to look satisfied, and his only clean digit, a pink thumb, slid into his mouth.

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Piggy leaned down to him.

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"What's yer name?"

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"Johnny."

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Piggy muttered the name to himself and then shouted it to Ralph, who was not interested because he was still blowing. His face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this stupendous noise, and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake. The shouting in the forest was nearer.

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Signs of life were visible now on the beach. The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand. Three small children, no older than Johnny, appeared from startlingly close at hand, where they had been gorging fruit in the forest. A dark little boy, not much younger than Piggy, parted a tangle of undergrowth, walked on to the platform, and smiled cheerfully at everybody. More and more of them came. Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited. Ralph continued to blow short, penetrating blasts. Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones. Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed, or jerseyed. There were badges, mottoes even, stripes of color in stockings and pullovers. Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated. Something was being done.

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The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand. Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it. The bat was the child's shadow, shrunk by the vertical sun to a patch between the hurrying feet. Even while he blew, Ralph noticed the last pair of bodies that reached the platform above a fluttering patch of black. The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs. They were twins, and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication. They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital. They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open. Piggy bent his flashing glasses to them and could be heard between the blasts, repeating their names.

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"Sam, Eric, Sam, Eric."

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Then he got muddled; the twins shook their heads and pointed at each other and the crowd laughed.

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At last Ralph ceased to blow and sat there, the conch trailing from one hand, his head bowed on his knees. As the echoes died away so did the laughter, and there was silence.

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Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing. The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill. The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them the complexions of newly washed plums. The boy who controlled them was dressed in the same way though his cap badge was golden. When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light. The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness.

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"Where's the man with the trumpet?"

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Ralph, sensing his sun-blindness, answered him.

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"There's no man with a trumpet. Only me."

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The boy came close and peered down at Ralph, screwing up his face as he did so. What he saw of the fairhaired boy with the creamy shell on his knees did not seem to satisfy him. He turned quickly, his black cloak circling.

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"Isn't there a ship, then?"

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Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.

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"Isn't there a man here?"

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Ralph spoke to his back.

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"No. We're having a meeting. Come and join in."

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The group of cloaked boys began to scatter from close line. The tall boy shouted at them.

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"Choir! Stand still!"

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Wearily obedient, the choir huddled into line and stood there swaying in the sun. None the less, some began to protest faintly.

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"But, Merridew. Please, Merridew . . . can't we?"

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Then one of the boys flopped on his face in the sand and the line broke up. They heaved the fallen boy to the platform and let him lie. Merridew, his eyes staring, made the best of a bad job.

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"All right then. Sit down. Let him alone."

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"But Merridew."

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"He's always throwing a faint," said Merridew. "He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor."

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This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest. Piggy asked no names. He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's voice. He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his glasses.

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Merridew turned to Ralph.

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"Aren't there any grownups?"

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"No."

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Merridew sat down on a trunk and looked round the circle.

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"Then we'll have to look after ourselves."

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Secure on the other side of Ralph, Piggy spoke timidly.

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"That's why Ralph made a meeting. So as we can decide what to do. We've heard names. That's Johnny. Those two--they're twins, Sam 'n Eric. Which is Eric--? You? No--you're Sam--"

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"I'm Sam--"

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"'n I'm Eric."

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"We'd better all have names," said Ralph, "so I'm Ralph."

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"We got most names," said Piggy. "Got 'em just now."

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"Kids' names," said Merridew. "Why should I be Jack? I'm Merridew."

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Ralph turned to him quickly. This was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

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"Then," went on Piggy, "that boy--I forget--"

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"You're talking too much," said Jack Merridew. "Shut up, Fatty."

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Laughter arose.

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"He's not Fatty," cried Ralph, "his real name's Piggy!"

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"Piggy!"

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"Piggy!"

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"Oh, Piggy!"

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A storm of laughter arose and even the tiniest child joined in. For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again.

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Finally the laughter died away and the naming continued. There was Maurice, next in size among the choir boys to Jack, but broad and grinning all the time. There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy. He muttered that his name was Roger and was silent again. Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.

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Ralph and said that his name was Simon.

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Jack spoke.

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"We've got to decide about being rescued."

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There was a buzz. One of the small boys, Henry, said that he wanted to go home.

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"Shut up," said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things."

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"A chief! A chief!"

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"I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp."

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Another buzz.

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"Well then," said Jack, "I--"

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He hesitated. The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up.

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"Let's have a vote."

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"Yes!"

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"Vote for chief!"

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"Let's vote--"

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This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch. Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself. None of the boys could have found good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.

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"Him with the shell."

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"Ralph! Ralph!"

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"Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing."

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Ralph raised a hand for silence.

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"All right. Who wants Jack for chief?"

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With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands.

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"Who wants me?"

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Every hand outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air.

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Ralph counted.

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"I'm chief then."

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The circle of boys broke into applause. Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification. He started up, then changed his mind and sat down again while the air rang. Ralph looked at him, eager to offer something.

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"The choir belongs to you, of course."

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"They could be the army--"

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"Or hunters--"

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"They could be--"

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The suffusion drained away from Jack's face. Ralph waved again for silence.

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"Jack's in charge of the choir. They can be--what do you want them to be?"

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"Hunters."

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Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking. The rest began to talk eagerly.

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Jack stood up.

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"All right, choir. Take off your togs."

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As if released from class, the choir boys stood up, chattered, piled their black cloaks on the grass. Jack laid his on the trunk by Ralph. His grey shorts were sticking to him with sweat. Ralph glanced at them admiringly, and when Jack saw his glance he explained.

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"I tried to get over that hill to see if there was water all round. But your shell called us."

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Ralph smiled and held up the conch for silence.

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"Listen, everybody. I've got to have time to think things out. I can't decide what to do straight off. If this isn't an island we might be rescued straight away. So we've got to decide if this is an island. Everybody must stay round here and wait and not go away. Three of us--if we take more we'd get all mixed, and lose each other--three of us will go on an expedition and find out. I'll go, and Jack, and, and . . ."

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He looked round the circle of eager faces. There was no lack of boys to choose from.

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"And Simon."

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The boys round Simon giggled, and he stood up, laughing a little. Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.

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He nodded at Ralph.

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"I'll come."

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"And I--"

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Jack snatched from behind him a sizable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.

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Piggy stirred.

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"I'll come."

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Ralph turned to him.

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"You're no good on a job like this."

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"All the same--"

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"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."

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Piggy's glasses flashed.

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"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was."

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Jack and the others paid no attention. There was a general dispersal. Ralph, Jack and Simon jumped off the platform and walked along the sand past the bathing pool. Piggy hung bumbling behind them.

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"If Simon walks in the middle of us," said Ralph, "then we could talk over his head."

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The three of them fell into step. This meant that every now and then Simon had to do a double shuffle to catch up with the others. Presently Ralph stopped and turned back to Piggy.

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"Look."

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Jack and Simon pretended to notice nothing. They walked on.

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"You can't come."

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Piggy's glasses were misted again--this time with humiliation.

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"You told 'em. After what I said."

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His face flushed, his mouth trembled.

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"After I said I didn't want--"

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"What on earth are you talking about?"

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"About being called Piggy. I said I didn't care as long as they didn't call me Piggy; an' I said not to tell and then you went an' said straight out--"

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Stillness descended on them. Ralph, looking with more understanding at Piggy, saw that he was hurt and crushed. He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult.

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"Better Piggy than Fatty," he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that. Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long."

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He turned and raced after the other two. Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks. He went back to the platform.

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The three boys walked briskly on the sand. The tide was low and there was a strip of weed-strewn beach that was almost as firm as a road. A kind of glamour was spread over them and the scene and they were conscious of the glamour and made happy by it. They turned to each other, laughing excitedly, talking, not listening. The air was bright. Ralph, faced by the task of translating all this into an explanation, stood on his head and fell over. When they had done laughing, Simon stroked Ralph's arm shyly; and they had to laugh again.

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"Come on," said Jack presently, "we're explorers."

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"We'll go to the end of the island," said Ralph, "and look round the corner."

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"If it is an island--"

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Now, toward the end of the afternoon, the mirages were settling a little. They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense. There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon. Sea birds were nesting there.

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"Like icing," said Ralph, "on a pink cake."

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"We shan't see round this corner," said Jack, "because there isn't one. Only a slow curve--and you can see, the rocks get worse--"

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Ralph shaded his eyes and followed the jagged outline of the crags up toward the mountain. This part of the beach was nearer the mountain than any other that they had seen.

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"We'll try climbing the mountain from here," he said. "I should think this is the easiest way. There's less of that jungly stuff; and more pink rock. Come on."

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The three boys began to scramble up. Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other. The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers. Where the pink cliffs rose out of the ground there were often narrow tracks winding upwards. They could edge along them, deep in the plant world, their faces to the rock.

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"What made this track?"

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Jack paused, wiping the sweat from his face. Ralph stood by him, breathless.

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"Men?"

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Jack shook his head.

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"Animals."

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Ralph peered into the darkness under the trees. The forest minutely vibrated.

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"Come on."

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The difficulty was not the steep ascent round the shoulders of rock, but the occasional plunges through the undergrowth to get to the next path. Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that.

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Somehow, they moved up.

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Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.

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"Wacco."

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"Wizard."

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"Smashing."

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The cause of their pleasure was not obvious. All three were hot, dirty and exhausted. Ralph was badly scratched. The creepers were as thick as their thighs and left little but tunnels for further penetration. Ralph shouted experimentally and they listened to the muted echoes.

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"This is real exploring," said Jack. "I bet nobody's been here before."

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"We ought to draw a map," said Ralph, "only we haven't any paper."

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"We could make scratches on bark," said Simon, "and rub black stuff in."

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Again came the solemn communion of shining eyes in the gloom.

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"Wacco."

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"Wizard."

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There was no place for standing on one's head. This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon they were a happy, heaving pile in the under-dusk.

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When they had fallen apart Ralph spoke first.

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"Got to get on."

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The pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path. This again led into more open forest so that they had a glimpse of the spread sea. With openness came the sun; it dried the sweat that had soaked their clothes in the dark, damp heat. At last the way to the top looked like a scramble over pink rock, with no more plunging through darkness. The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone.

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"Look! Look!"

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High over this end of the island, the shattered rocks lifted up their stacks and chimneys. This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.

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"Come on--"

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But not "Come on" to the top. The assault on the summit must wait while the three boys accepted this challenge. The rock was as large as a small motor car.

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"Heave!"

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Sway back and forth, catch the rhythm.

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"Heave!"

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Increase the swing of the pendulum, increase, increase, come up and bear against that point of furthest balance-- increase--increase--

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"Heave!"

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The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest. Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was still.

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"Wacco!"

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"Like a bomb!"

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"Whee-aa-oo!"

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Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph. But they left at last.

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The way to the top was easy after that. As they reached the last stretch Ralph stopped.

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"Golly!"

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They were on the lip of a circular hollow in the side of the mountain. This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest. The air was thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, settling.

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Beyond the hollow was the square top of the mountain and soon they were standing on it.

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They had guessed before that this was an island: clambering among the pink rocks, with the sea on either side, and the crystal heights of air, they had known by some instinct that the sea lay on every side. But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water.

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Ralph turned to the others.

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"This belongs to us."

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It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree- clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.

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The boys surveyed all this, then looked out to sea. They were high up and the afternoon had advanced; the view was not robbed of sharpness by mirage.

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"That's a reef. A coral reef. I've seen pictures like that."

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The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an aquarium; outside was the dark blue of the sea. The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.

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Jack pointed down.

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"That's where we landed."

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Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. There, too, jutting into the lagoon, was the platform, with insect-like figures moving near it.

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Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started.

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"That's the quickest way back."

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Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination. They were lifted up: were friends.

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"There's no village smoke, and no boats," said Ralph wisely. "We'll make sure later; but I think it's uninhabited."

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"We'll get food," cried Jack. "Hunt. Catch things. until they fetch us."

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Simon looked at them both, saying nothing but nodding till his black hair flopped backwards and forwards: his face was glowing.

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Ralph looked down the other way where there was no reef.

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"Steeper," said Jack.

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Ralph made a cupping gesture.

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"That bit of forest down there . . . the mountain holds it up."

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Every point of the mountain held up trees--flowers and trees. Now the forest stirred, roared, flailed. The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces.

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Ralph spread his arms.

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"All ours."

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They laughed and tumbled and shouted on the mountain.

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"I'm hungry."

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When Simon mentioned his hunger the others became aware of theirs.

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"Come on," said Ralph. "We've found out what we wanted to know."

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They scrambled down a rock slope, dropped among flowers and made their way under the trees. Here they paused and examined the bushes round them curiously.

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Simon spoke first.

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"Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds."

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The bushes were dark evergreen and aromatic and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light. Jack slashed at one with his knife and the scent spilled over them.

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"Candle buds."

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"You couldn't light them," said Ralph. "They just look like candles."

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"Green candles," said Jack contemptuously. "We can't eat them. Come on."

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They were in the beginnings of the thick forest, plonking with weary feet on a track, when they heard the noises--squeakings--and the hard strike of hoofs on a path. As they pushed forward the squeaking increased till it became a frenzy. They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Its voice was thin, needle-sharp and insistent; The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. They were left looking at each other and the place of terror. Jack's face was white under the freckles. He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down replacing the blade in the sheath. Then they all three laughed ashamedly and began to climb back to the track.

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"I was choosing a place," said Jack. "I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him."

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"You should stick a pig," said Ralph fiercely. "They always talk about sticking a pig."

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"You cut a pig's throat to let the blood out," said Jack, "otherwise you can't eat the meat."

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"Why didn't you--?"

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They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.

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"I was going to," said Jack. He was ahead of them, and they could not see his face. "I was choosing a place. Next time--!"

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He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

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