CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT.
A SWEET AWAKENING.
For many days the young Kentuckian remains unconscious of all that is passing around.

Fortunately for him, he has fallen into the right hands; for the old gentleman in spectacles is in reality a medical man-- a skilled surgeon as well as a physician, and devotes all his time and skill to restoring his patient to health.
Soon the wound shows signs of healing, and, along with it, the fever begins gradually to abate.

The brain at length relieved, reason resumes its sway.
Hamersley becomes conscious that he still lives, on hearing voices.
They are of men.

Two are engaged in a dialogue, which appears to be carried on with some difficulty, as one is speaking English, which the other but slightly understands.

Neither is the English of the first speaker of a very correct kind, nor is his voice at all euphonious.