... to lay you up for more than two years:
Hope he enjoys the free £97 he gets this year for sitting around on his ass nursing a slight neck strain.
Also giggle-worthy is the specificity of the forecast for time missed: between 26 and 27 months. Not 25. Not 28. But 26 to 27.
Godspeed, Mr. Bell. See you in December 1928 or January 1929.