I felt that the mystery of the whole thing was getting on his nerves, as it had already got on the nerves of some others of us.

He was, I fancied, a little annoyed with himself for having been so startled, and at once began to talk in a hurried manner as though to get over our idea of his embarrassment: "I am really and absolutely at my wits' end to find any fit cause for this stupor.

I have made again as accurate an examination as I know how, and I am satisfied that there is no injury to the brain, that is, no external injury.

Indeed, all his vital organs seem unimpaired.

I have given him, as you know, food several times and it has manifestly done him good.