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 pack came home to Kitty. The men and the hounds were after this beautiful creature to take away the only thing he valued in the whole world, his life.

At the sound of the oncoming pack, an overwhelming sense of the brave struggle this wild creature was waging against the men with their guns and dogs came over the girl and her sympathetic woman's heart felt a great wave of compassion. They should not take this beautiful creature's life if she could help it.

It did not matter that the fox represented her future muff and that she had abetted Bud Holcome for months in his capture of the fox. For the first time, she now saw the whole matter from the standpoint of the hunted and a great repulsion against being a party to the killing of Redcoat came over her. Without considering what she was doing, or how to accomplish the daring plan that had come to her, and without any fear that he might bite her, Kitty sprang from the sleigh and catching up the warm blanket, hurried to where Redcoat lay pant-