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The Boy Trapper

CHAPTER XVI
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"Have you joined that sportsman's club, and are you going to prosecute me for being a pot-hunter ?" "Lester has already told you what we are going to do about that, and you may rest assured that we shall _do_ it," answered Bob, sharply.
"What we say, we always stand to.

What we want to talk to you about now is this: We know, as well as you do, that your father is hiding out here in the cane, and that he dare not show himself in the settlement for fear he will be arrested.

You wouldn't like to see him sent to jail, would you ?" "I know what you mean," replied David.

"My father may have been foolish, but he has done nothing that the law can touch him for." When he said this he was thinking of Clarence Gordon and the barrel with the eighty thousand dollars in it.

He did not know that Godfrey was guilty of highway robbery, and he forgot that he had also committed an assault upon Don, and that he had received and cared for stolen property, knowing it to be stolen.
"Hasn't he, though!" cried Bob.


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