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"You don't mean to say that Farringford here, whom everybody in St. Louis knows, is your father -- do you? " continued Mr. Gray, apparently amazed at the absurdity of the proposition, while his friend and the sergeant laughed heartily.
"That is precisely what I mean to say," I replied, in the most determined tone.