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"He is a man!" said Howard, with an earnestness which was strange in

him.

"You are right," said Stafford. "There never was such a father. And

yet--yet--I don't understand him. He is such a mixture. How such a man

could talk as he did--no I don't understand it."

"I do," said Howard.

But then Sir Stephen had given him the key to the enigma.