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"Keep still!" cautioned Billy, "an' look yonder! See it?","No, I'm willin' to shake." Scroggie extended his hand.,"British?",And now he was back again; and this time he did not intend to risk his life in those sucking sands. From a couple of dead saplings, with the aid of wild grape-vines, he fashioned a light raft which would serve as a support in the bog, and carry his weight in the putrid mire beyond. Strange sounds came to his ears as he worked his way across the desolate waste toward the first great pond—scurrying, rustling sounds of hidden things aroused from their security. Once a big grey snake stirred from torpor to lift its head and hiss at him. Billy lifted it aside with his pole and went on.,"And did you hear anythin' of what passed between 'em, Billy?","What do you see? The French Flotilla?" cried Miss Acton in a voice tremulous with agitation. She darted her eyes through her glasses over the sea.,Billy did so. Then, there being nothing more left to do, he stepped back to watch the fireworks.,"All right then, see that you don't. Now, see here, I'll tell you somethin'. I did throw my rabbit's foot charm but that was to keep that ghost from follerin'. Maybe you two didn't hear it snort when it got to that charm an' tried to pass it, so's to catch up to us; but I heard it. Oh say, but wouldn't it be mad though?","Now, then," said Billy as he came up, "maybe you'll begin to see that it don't pay to blab so danged much.","I expect the frigate that chased her will be one of the Western squadron," said Captain Acton. "How finely those ships are doing their work! Since they've been sweeping these waters scarce a French picaroon dare put his nose out; when before, the seas swarmed like a tropic calm with bristling fins of sharks.","'And the message,' he says, 'this is ut: "Off Gibson's Grove at tin o'clock,"' says he.","All hunky," Billy whispered back..