Strangely enough, though the retina of each eye was pierced, and the sight is irrecoverably gone, there was very little damage done to surrounding parts, and the brain is quite uninjured.

The present danger arises from the shock to the nervous system and from the extreme mental anguish caused by the realisation of his loss.

The physical suffering during the first days and nights must have been terrible.

Poor fellow, he looks shattered by it.

But his constitution is excellent, and his life has been so clean, healthy, and normal, that he had every chance of making a good recovery, were it not that as the pain abated and his blindness became more a thing to be daily and hourly realised, his mental torture was so excessive.