But I knew him when he was a boy." "So you understand him ?" "Oh, pretty well.

Not always, perhaps.

He's a difficult subject." "Anyhow, you like him?
Don't you ?" Stanistreet gave a curious hard laugh.
"Oh yes--I like him." "That's all right.

And really, I don't wonder that people can't make him out.

He's the strangest animal _I_ ever met in my life.