As to the internal injury sustained, no estimate could be made at the time.

He did not recover fully from the state of insensibility into which he lapsed after the fall, until the work of setting the broken bones and reducing the dislocation was nearly over.

His first utterance was to ask for his mother.

She was not present, however.

Her cries, at seeing the peril and fall of her child, brought a domestic to the room, who found her lying insensible upon the floor.