The ricochet has done you up for some time.

The head will soon get well, but I'm far from sure about your eyes.

You've got to have a specialist about them.

You're in the dark, and as for making you see, so am I.Your eyes and you are out of commission for some time, anyhow." He leaned over hastily, but softly and deftly undid the bandages over the eyes and took them off.

"It's seven in the morning, and the sun's up, Chief, but it doesn't do you much good, you see." The last two words were the purest accident, but it was a strange, mournful irony, and Rockwell flushed at the thought of it.