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Somewhere behind him Billy heard a giggle, which was immediately suppressed as he turned and looked over his shoulder.,Aloud he urged: "Come on, Anse. Get Out an' pile into my bed. I ain't scared to sleep in yours, not a bit. Besides," he added, "it'll save you a canin' from Ma.","Right here in my two fists, Maurice.","Mr Lawrence paints the voyage to the West Indies in very tempting colours," answered Lucy.,"Then s'posin' we try an' find out something 'bout 'em fer ourselves, eh?","Yep, an' everythin' else is jest like you said, too, only the red streaks have gone from above the trees now.",This tale induced Captain Acton to indulge in the recital of a hair-breadth escape of his own, but a flow of exciting anecdotes was arrested by Miss Acton declaring that she was not strong enough to bear to hear such horrid, moving stories, particularly just a little before bed-time.,"Jest the same as ever. There, teacher, it fair laughed right out at us then.","It's Anse's. We must have got 'em mixed when we was dressin'.",So here lay the reason that the swamp-waters never froze even when winter locked all other waters fast in its icy clutch! What caused those air bubbles, if air bubbles they were?,Captain Acton listened to her with profound interest. He was greatly impressed and moved by his daughter's exhibition of traditionary genius. She recalled his wife, of whom he was passionately proud and fond. He had never imagined that Lucy had the[Pg 372] talent of an actress, but the dramatic character of her narrative and every point in her extraordinary relation convinced him that she was a born artist, and that accident had compelled her to reveal to herself gifts of power, perception, and imagination of whose existence she had been as ignorant as her father.,"What are you going to do?" asked Stanhope..