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 "No Kitty," replied Bud, "I haven't shot him."

"Well, Bud," continued the girl, "have you trapped him?"

"Why, no, that is, not exactly."

"Bud," cried Kitty excitedly, "I know you have trapped him. Tell me the truth."

"Well," said Bud after a long pause, "I can't talk about it over the telephone. I'll come over to the house in a few minutes and tell you all about it."

It was a very shamefaced Bud, with his recent radiance all gone out of him, who finally appeared at the Mason farmhouse. He knew there was no use prevaricating, for Kitty would know the truth, so he told her the whole story.

"You see, Kit," he concluded, "I did it as much for his good as for mine. I knew the Fox Club would get him if I didn't. I had a chance to save him and make five hundred dollars for college so I took it."

Kitty sat for several minutes with her brows knitted before making her reply, then what she said sent Bud Holcome's heart way