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CHAPTER XXVIII

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

For freedom who is there will say
There's any price too much to pay?

Little Joe Otter.

Have you ever been terribly frightened? Have you ever been so frightened that you couldn't even think? That is the way it was with the foolish young Otter when he realized that he was caught in a trap. He was so filled with terror that he didn't even think about the pain in his foot. There is nothing quite so awful as the helpless feeling that comes when one is caught in a