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 fore (and the hunters themselves had so added to his achievements when they gathered in their clubroom on winter evenings to spin yarns) he had well earned the title of the Phantom Fox.

Very early in the Spring there had come to the Meadow City a Virginian named Harold Denby. He was a daredevil cross-country rider, descended from an old Virginia family which had hunted foxes on horseback ever since the settlement of the colony.

As soon as the Virginian arrived in the Meadow City he was given a great banquet at the Meadowdale Fox Club. For several days previous Denby had been fed up on stories of the Phantom Fox, and at the club he heard much more about him. Accordingly, the Virginian Fox hunter's curiosity was aroused and with it was born an ambition to lead the Meadowdale Fox Club to a capture of the great Redcoat. After the banquet was over plans were formulated for another hunt which should be carried on in the true Virginian style. All of the best