During the extraordinary interval of sanity that has now declared
itself, he is putting his mental powers to their first free use; and
none of them fail him, so far as I can see. His new memory (if I may
call it so) preserves the knowledge of what has happened since his
illness. You may imagine how this problem in brain disease interests
me; and you will not wonder that I am going back to Sandsworth tomorrow
afternoon, when I have done with my professional visits. But you may be
reasonably surprised at my troubling _you_ with details which are mainly
interesting to a medical man."
Was he about to ask me to go with him to the asylum? I replied very
briefly, merely saying that the details were interesting to every
student of human nature. If he could have felt my pulse at that moment,
I am afraid he might have thought I was in a fair way of catching the
fever too.
"Prepare yourself," he resumed, "for another surprising circumstance.
Mr. Winterfield is, by some incomprehensible accident, associated with
one of the mischievous tricks played by the French boy, before he
was placed under my friend's care.
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