13164    'There is no use writing the details of that dreadful event.

13165    In the event of your acceding to my request, it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.

13166    I have only just recovered from nine weeks of brain fever, and am still exceedingly weak.

13167    Do you think that you could bring your friend, Mr. Holmes, down to see me?

13168    I should like to have his opinion of the case, though the authorities assure me that nothing more can be done.

13169    Do try to bring him down, and as soon as possible.

13170    Every minute seems an hour while I live in this horrible suspense.

13171    Assure him that, if I have not asked his advice sooner, it was not because I did not appreciate his talents, but because I have been off my head ever since the blow fell.

13172    Now I am clear again, though I dare not think of it too much for fear of a relapse.

13173    I am still so weak that I have to write, as you see, by dictating.

13174    Do try and bring him.

13175    'Your old schoolfellow,'

13176    PERCY PHELPS.'

13177    There was something that touched me as I read this letter, something pitiable in the reiterated appeals to bring Holmes.

13178    So moved was I that, even if it had been a difficult matter, 'I should have tried it; but, of course, I knew well that Holmes loved his art so, that he was ever as ready to bring his aid as his client could be to receive it.