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"Five minutes!" said Stella, warningly; and she turned her face from him, and kept her eyes fixed on the clock. "It will suffice," said Jasper. "I have to ask you to bear with me while I tell you a short history. I will mention no names--you yourself will be able to supply them. All I have to ask of you further is that you will hear me to the end. The history is of father and son." Stella did not move; she thought that he referred to the earl and Leycester. She had determined to listen calmly until the five minutes…