The sleeper returned to life, and after a short time to the full vigor of youth which his appearance had indicated. Leete to attempt resuscitation, and to his own astonishment his efforts proved successful. Although great trees had been growing above the vault, the unaccountable preservation of the youth's body tempted Dr. On opening it, a vault, luxuriously fitted up in the style of a nineteenth-century bedchamber, was found, and on the bed the body of a young man looking as if he had just lain down to sleep. Leete, a physician of Boston, on the retired list, was conducting excavations in his garden for the foundations of a private laboratory, when the workers came on a mass of masonry covered with ashes and charcoal. One hundred and thirteen years later, in September, A. Remains identified as those of Sawyer were found and, though no vestige of West appeared, it was assumed that he of course had also perished. That night the house of Julian West took fire and was wholly destroyed.

The hypnotist had previously informed his patron that he was intending to leave the city permanently the same evening, and referred him to other practitioners. On the night of May 30, 1887, West sent for the latter, and was put to sleep as usual. This habit, as well as the existence of the underground chamber, were secrets known only to Sawyer and the hypnotist who rendered his services. When even the silence and seclusion of this retreat failed to bring slumber, he sometimes called in a professional mesmerizer to put him into a hypnotic sleep, from which Sawyer knew how to arouse him at a fixed time. Being a sufferer from insomnia, he had caused a chamber to be built of stone beneath the foundation of the house, which he used for a sleeping room. He was soon to be married to a young lady of wealthy family named Edith Bartlett, and meanwhile lived alone with his man-servant Sawyer in the family mansion. In the year 1887 Julian West was a rich young man living in Boston. In order that those who have not read Looking Backward may be at no disadvantage, an outline of the essential features of that story is subjoined:

I have taken the date of Looking Backward, the year 2000, as that of Equality, and have utilized the framework of the former story as a starting point for this which I now offer.

Since it was published what was left out of it has loomed up as so much more important than what it contained that I have been constrained to write another book.

Looking Backward was a small book, and I was not able to get into it all I wished to say on the subject.

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