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Chapter 28
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'What do you mean, you're "satisfied he's not on the prison grounds"? What does that mean? It means you didn't find him! You better find him! You better! Because I want him! Do you hear me? I want him!'
Gonyar said something.
'Didn't happen on your shift? That's what you say. So far as I can tell, no one knows when it happened. Or how. Or if it really did. Now, I want him in my office by three o'clock this afternoon, or some heads are going to roll. I can promise you that, and I always keep my promises.'
Something else from Gonyar, something that seemed to provoke Norton to even greater rage.
'No? Then look at this! Look at this! You recognize it? Last night's tally1 for Cellblock 5. Every prisoner accounted for! Dufresne was locked up last night at nine and it is impossible for him to be gone now! It is impossible! Now you find him!"
But at six that evening Andy was still among the missing, Norton himself stormed down to Cellblock 5, where the rest of us had been locked up all of that day. Had we been questioned? We had spent most of that long day being questioned by harried2 screws who were feeling the breath of the dragon on the backs of their necks. We all said the same thing: we had seen nothing, heard nothing. And so far as I know, we were all telling the truth. I know that I was. All we could say was that Andy had indeed been in his cell at the time of the lock-in, and at lights-out an hour later.
One wit suggested that Andy had poured himself out through the keyhole. The suggestion earned the guy four days in solitary3. They were uptight4.
So Norton came down - stalked down - glaring at us with blue eyes nearly hot enough to strike sparks from the tempered steel bars of our cages. He looked at us as if he believed we were all in on it. Probably he did believe it.
He went into Andy's cell and looked around. It was just as Andy had left it, the sheets of his bunk5 turned back but without looking slept-in. Rocks on the windowsill... but not all of them. The ones he liked best he took with him.
'Rocks,' Norton hissed6, and swept them off the window-ledge with a clatter7. Gonyar, already four hours overtime8, winced9 but said nothing.
Norton's eyes fell on the Linda Ronstadt poster. Linda was looking back over her shoulder, her hands tucked into the back pockets of a very tight pair of fawn-coloured slacks. She was wearing a halter and she had a deep California tan. It must have offended the hell out of Norton's Baptist sensibilities, that poster. Watching him glare at it, I remembered what Andy had once said about feeling he could almost step through the picture and be with the girl. In a very real way, that was exactly what he did - as Norton was only seconds from discovering. 'Wretched thing!' he grunted10, and ripped the poster from the wall with a single swipe of his hand.
And revealed the gaping11, crumbled12 hole in the concrete behind it. Gonyar wouldn't go in.
Norton ordered him - God, they must have heard Norton ordering Rich Gonyar to go in there all over the prison - and Gonyar just refused him, point-blank.
'I'll have your job for this!' Norton screamed. He was as hysterical13 as a woman having a hot-flush. He had utterly14 blown his cool. His neck had turned a rich, dark red, and two veins15 stood out, throbbing16, on his forehead. 'You can count on it, you ... you Frenchman! I'll have your job and I'll see to it that you never get another one in any prison system in New England!'
Gonyar silently held out his service pistol to Norton, butt17 first. He'd had enough. He was four hours overtime, going on five, and he'd just had enough. It was as if Andy's defection from our happy little family had driven Norton right over the edge of some private irrationality18 that had been there for a long time ... certainly he was crazy that night.
I don't know what that private irrationality might have been, of course. But I do know that there were twenty-eight cons19 listening to Norton's little dust-up with Rich Gonyar that evening as the last of the light faded from a dull late winter sky, all of us hard-timers and long-line riders who had seen the administrators20 come and go, the hard-asses and the candy-asses alike, and we all knew that Warden21 Samuel Norton had just passed what the engineers like to call 'the breaking strain'.
And by God, it almost seemed to me that somewhere I could heard Andy Dufresne laughing.
Norton finally got a skinny drink of water on the night shift to go into that hole that had been behind Andy's poster of Linda Ronstadt. The skinny guard's name was Rory Tremont, and he was not exactly a ball of fire in the brains department. Maybe he thought he was going to win a Bronze Star or something. As it turned out, it was fortunate that Norton got someone of Andy's approximate height and build to go in there; if they had sent a big-assed fellow - as most prison guards seem to be - the guy would have stuck in there is sure as God made green grass ... and he might be there still.
Tremont went in with a nylon filament22 rope, which someone had found in the trunk of his car, tied around his waist and a big six-battery flashlight in one hand. By then Gonyar, who had changed his mind about quitting and who seemed to be the only one there still able to think clearly, had dug out a set of blueprints23. I knew well enough what they showed him - a wall which looked, in cross-section, like a sandwich. The entire wall was ten feet thick. The inner and outer sections were each about four feet thick. In the centre was two feet of pipe-space, and you want to believe that was the meat of the thing ... in more ways than one.
Tremont's voice came out of the hole, sounding hollow and dead. 'Something smells awful in here, Warden.'
'Never mind that! Keep going.'
Tremont's lower legs disappeared into the hole. A moment later his feet were gone, too. His light flashed dimly back and forth24.
'Warden, it smells pretty damn bad.'
'Never mind, I said!' Norton cried.
Dolorously25, Tremont's voice floated back: 'Smells like shit. Oh God, that's what it is, it's shit, oh my God lemme outta here I'm gonna blow my groceries oh shit it's shit oh my Gawwwwwd - And then came the unmistakable sound of Rory Tremont losing his last couple of meals.
Well, that was it for me. I couldn't help myself. The whole day - hell no, the last thirty years - all came up on me at once and I started laughing fit to split, alaugh such as I'd never had since I was a free man, the kind of laugh I never expected to have inside these grey walls. And oh dear God didn't it feel good!

  “你是什么意思?你是什么意思?他不在监狱里,表示你没有找到他?这样你就觉得满意了吗?你最好找到他!因为我要把他逮到!你听见了吗?我要逮到他!”
  高亚嘴里咕哝了几句。
  “不是在你值班的时候发生的?那是你自说自话,就我所知,没有人知道他是什么时候逃出去的,或怎么逃出去的,或他是不是真的逃出去了。我不管,我限你在今天下午三点以前把他带回我的办公室,否则就有人要人头落地了。我说到做到,我一向说到做到。”
  高亚不知又说了什么,使得诺顿更加震怒。
  “没有?看看这个!看看这个!你认得这个吗?这是昨天晚上第五区的点名记录,每个囚犯都在牢房里。昨天晚上九点钟的时候,杜佛尼还被关在牢房里,他不可能就这样不见了!不可能!立刻去把他找到!”
  到了那天下午三点,安迪仍然在失踪名单上。过了几小时后,诺顿自己冲入第五区牢房。那天第五区所有犯人都被关在自己的牢房里,被那些神色仓皇的狱卒盘问了一整天。我们的答案都一样:我们什么也没看见,什么也没听见。就我所知,大家说的都是实话,我知道我没说谎,我们只能说,昨晚所有的犯人回房时,安迪确实进了他的牢房,而且一小时后熄灯时,他也还在。
  有个机灵鬼猜测,安迪可能是从钥匙孔钻出去了,结果这句话为他招惹来四天的单独监禁,这些警卫全都绷得很紧。
  于是诺顿亲自来查房,用他那一对蓝眼睛狠狠瞪着我们,在他的注视下,牢笼的铁栅栏仿佛快冒出火星了。他的眼神流露着怀疑,也许他真的认为我们都是共犯。
  他走进安迪的囚房,到处查看。牢房里还是安迪离开时的样子,床上的被褥看起来不像有人睡过,石头放在窗台上……,不过并非所有的石头都在,他带走了最喜欢的几颗石头。
  “石头。”诺顿悻悻道,把石头哗啦啦地统统从窗台上扫下来,高亚缩在一旁,噤若寒蝉。
  诺顿的目光落在琳达·朗斯黛的海报上。琳达双手插进后裤袋中,回眸一笑,上身穿了件露背的背心,皮肤晒成古铜色。身为浸信会教徒的诺顿看到这张海报一定很生气,我看到他狠狠盯着海报,想起安迪曾经说过,他常觉得似乎可以一脚踩进去,和海报上的女孩在一起。
  他确确实实就这么做了,几秒钟后,诺顿也发现了。
  诺顿一把撕下海报来。“邪门玩意!”他吼道。
  海报后面的水泥墙上出现了一个洞。
  高亚不肯进去。
  诺顿命令他,声音之大,整个监狱一定都听得一清二楚。但是高亚不肯进去。
  “你想丢掉饭碗吗?”诺顿尖叫着,歇斯底里地像个更年期热潮红的女人一样。他早已失去了平日的冷静,脖子胀成深红色,额前两条青筋毕露,不停跳动。“我说到做到,你……你这该死的法国佬!你今天非进去不可,否则就别想再吃这行饭了,以后也休想在新英格兰任何一个监狱找到工作!”
  高亚默默掏出手枪,枪柄对着诺顿,把枪交给他。他受够了,已经过了下班时间两个小时,眼看就快超时工作三个小时。那天晚上,诺顿真是气得发狂,仿佛安迪的叛逃终于揭开他长久以来不为人知的非理性的一面。
  当然,我没有看到他非理性的那一面,但是我知道那天晚上,当暮冬的昏暗天色逐渐变得漆黑一片时,二十六个在肖申克经历过多次改朝换代的长期犯一直在侧耳倾听,我们都知道诺顿正在经历工程师所说的“断裂应变”。
  我仿佛可以听见安迪·杜佛尼正躲在某处窃笑不已。
  诺顿终于找到一个值夜班的瘦小警卫来钻进海报后面的洞里,他的名字叫洛睿·崔门。他平常并不是个聪明人,或许他以为将因此获颁铜星勋章。算诺顿运气好,居然碰巧找到一个身材和安迪差不多的人。大多数监狱警卫都是大块头,如果他们派了个大块头来,一定爬到一半就卡在那里,直到现在还出不来。
  崔门进去时把尼龙绳绑在腰上,手上拿了一支装了六个干电池的大手电筒。这时高亚已经改变心意,不打算辞职了,而他似乎是现场惟一头脑还清醒的人,找来了一组监狱的蓝图。从剖面图看来,监狱的墙就像个三明治,整堵墙足足有十英尺厚,内墙、外墙各有四英尺厚,中间的两英尺空隙是铺设管线的通道,就好像三明治的肉馅一样。
  崔门的声音从洞中传出来,听起来有种空洞和死亡的感觉。“典狱长,里面味道很难闻。”
  “不管它,继续爬。”
  崔门的腿消失在洞口,一会儿,连脚也看不见了,只看到手电筒的光微弱地晃动。
  “典狱长,里面的味道实在很糟糕。”
  “我说不要管它。”诺顿叫道。
  崔门的声音哀戚地飘过来。“闻起来像大便,哦!天哪!真的是大便,哇!是大便!我的天哪,我快吐了,哇……”然后可以清楚地听到崔门把当天吃的所有东西都吐出来了。
  现在轮到我了,我再也忍不住,这一整天——喔,不,过去这三十年来的压抑终于爆发了,我开始大笑,笑得抑制不住,自从失去自由后,我还从未这么开怀地笑过。我从来不曾期望困在灰墙中的我还能笑得这么开心,真是过瘾极了。


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1 tally Gg1yq     
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
参考例句:
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
2 harried 452fc64bfb6cafc37a839622dacd1b8e     
v.使苦恼( harry的过去式和过去分词 );不断烦扰;一再袭击;侵扰
参考例句:
  • She has been harried by the press all week. 整个星期她都受到新闻界的不断烦扰。
  • The soldiers harried the enemy out of the country. 士兵们不断作骚扰性的攻击直至把敌人赶出国境为止。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 solitary 7FUyx     
adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士
参考例句:
  • I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
  • The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际,显得十分壮美。
4 uptight yjXwQ     
adj.焦虑不安的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • He's feeling a bit uptight about his exam tomorrow.他因明天的考试而感到有点紧张。
  • Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.试着一笑了之,不要紧张。
5 bunk zWyzS     
n.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位;废话
参考例句:
  • He left his bunk and went up on deck again.他离开自己的铺位再次走到甲板上。
  • Most economists think his theories are sheer bunk.大多数经济学家认为他的理论纯属胡说。
6 hissed 2299e1729bbc7f56fc2559e409d6e8a7     
发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对
参考例句:
  • Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过?
  • The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。
7 clatter 3bay7     
v./n.(使)发出连续而清脆的撞击声
参考例句:
  • The dishes and bowls slid together with a clatter.碟子碗碰得丁丁当当的。
  • Don't clatter your knives and forks.别把刀叉碰得咔哒响。
8 overtime aKqxn     
adj.超时的,加班的;adv.加班地
参考例句:
  • They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
  • He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。
9 winced 7be9a27cb0995f7f6019956af354c6e4     
赶紧避开,畏缩( wince的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He winced as the dog nipped his ankle. 狗咬了他的脚腕子,疼得他龇牙咧嘴。
  • He winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg. 他左腿一阵剧痛疼得他直龇牙咧嘴。
10 grunted f18a3a8ced1d857427f2252db2abbeaf     
(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说
参考例句:
  • She just grunted, not deigning to look up from the page. 她只咕哝了一声,继续看书,不屑抬起头来看一眼。
  • She grunted some incomprehensible reply. 她咕噜着回答了些令人费解的话。
11 gaping gaping     
adj.口的;张口的;敞口的;多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 );张开,张大
参考例句:
  • Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
12 crumbled 32aad1ed72782925f55b2641d6bf1516     
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
参考例句:
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
13 hysterical 7qUzmE     
adj.情绪异常激动的,歇斯底里般的
参考例句:
  • He is hysterical at the sight of the photo.他一看到那张照片就异常激动。
  • His hysterical laughter made everybody stunned.他那歇斯底里的笑声使所有的人不知所措。
14 utterly ZfpzM1     
adv.完全地,绝对地
参考例句:
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
15 veins 65827206226d9e2d78ea2bfe697c6329     
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理
参考例句:
  • The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的,感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》
16 throbbing 8gMzA0     
a. 跳动的,悸动的
参考例句:
  • My heart is throbbing and I'm shaking. 我的心在猛烈跳动,身子在不住颤抖。
  • There was a throbbing in her temples. 她的太阳穴直跳。
17 butt uSjyM     
n.笑柄;烟蒂;枪托;臀部;v.用头撞或顶
参考例句:
  • The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
  • He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。
18 irrationality 1b326c0c44534307351536f698c4f5c1     
n. 不合理,无理性
参考例句:
  • Such stoppages as are observed in practice are thus attributed to mistakes or even irrationality. 在实际情况中看到的这些停工,要归因于失误或甚至是非理性的东西。
  • For all its harshness and irrationality, it is the only world we've got. 尽管它严酷而又不合理,它终究是我们具有的唯一的世界。
19 cons eec38a6d10735a91d1247a80b5e213a6     
n.欺骗,骗局( con的名词复数 )v.诈骗,哄骗( con的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 administrators d04952b3df94d47c04fc2dc28396a62d     
n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 );有管理(或行政)才能的人;(由遗嘱检验法庭指定的)遗产管理人;奉派暂管主教教区的牧师
参考例句:
  • He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员,但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
  • Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
21 warden jMszo     
n.监察员,监狱长,看守人,监护人
参考例句:
  • He is the warden of an old people's home.他是一家养老院的管理员。
  • The warden of the prison signed the release.监狱长签发释放令。
22 filament sgCzj     
n.细丝;长丝;灯丝
参考例句:
  • The source of electrons in an electron microscope is a heated filament.电子显微镜中的电子源,是一加热的灯丝。
  • The lack of air in the bulb prevents the filament from burning up.灯泡内缺乏空气就使灯丝不致烧掉。
23 blueprints 79424f10e1e5af9aef7f20cca92465bc     
n.蓝图,设计图( blueprint的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Have the blueprints been worked out? 蓝图搞好了吗? 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • BluePrints description of a distributed component of the system design and best practice guidelines. BluePrints描述了一个分布式组件体系的最佳练习和设计指导方针。 来自互联网
24 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
25 dolorously a3a6d670c59a66a2e46015ca29c5f672     
adj. 悲伤的;痛苦的;悲哀的;阴沉的
参考例句:
  • Now and again the hunter can hear a long-draw dolorous whine of some unseen coyote. 猎人不时能听见某只看不见的小林狼发出的拖长的哀嚎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • With a broken-hearted smile, he lifted a pair of dolorous eyes. 带著伤心的微笑,他抬起了一双痛苦的眼睛。 来自互联网


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