The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-09
A Long Sleep
BY LOUISE 3. CUMMINGS
Copyright by American Press Asso-
cIatlnn. I9ll

years in such condition. Therefore
there IL nothing improbable or. at
least. impossible in the following story:
Jeunnette De Forest when she was
ten years old was run over by a
wagon. She was picked up uncon-
sciuuS carried home and physician
called IN Immediately He examined
the little girl carefully. found no Sc
we're commissions. no bones broken and.
so far as he could judge. no internal
injury. He said that she had doubt.
less lost consciousness from the shock
she had received. but would soon come
10 herself.
Now Jeanette was the daughter of
a very poor man. His father had been
wealthy, but soon after his sons mar
rage tue family property had been
lost, and Jeanette had never known
anything but poverty. She loved to
hear her father talk of the "halcyon
days" as he called them. when the
family had lived in big house in the
center OF extensive grounds and had
everything one could desire. She had
heard the bomesteads various features
described so often that she had gained
quite correct picture of It In her
minds eye Her father. who was n
visionary man. talked about buying the
old place when his ship came'in." and
Jeanette never tired of hearing him
describe the room that would be hers.
Despite the doctors assurance that
the little girl would soon return to
consciousness, she lay in comatose
condition, or one OF slumber for she
appeared TO be sleeping, year after
year without showing any sign of
awakening.
One day. nine years after the acci-
dent. she opened her eyes. She was
not in the dingy little room she had
been accustomed TO. but one furnished
With every luxury, Moreover, she
could look out of a window and see the
leaves unfolding on the trees whereas
when she had gone 10 sleep 1t was
winter. At some distance was a very
high chimney. nearer the arched wire
and glass of large conservatory, be-
SlupS OlutI lUlllEN u'I lullltI udu ue-
scribed to her. could be seen from the
room he designed for her In the old
homestead
Thinking she must be dreaming. she
blinked her eyes and tried to move.
The latter was difficult. and somehow
she felt very differently from when
she had gone TO sleep. she noticed
that she very nearly hned the whole
length OF the bed. Managing to raise
herself on her arm, she caught sight
OF her image in the mirrored door OF
wardrobe. What was her astonsh.
ment TO see the reflection of woman
instead of child
Failing back on her pillows. she COW
cred her eyes with her hands that she
might collect her scattered senses.
Surely she must be dreaming, and yet
everything was as clear to her as il
had ever been when she was awake.
What could il mean -- in the home.
stead, and woman apparently be-
tween eighteen and twenty years of
agei
Now, all these years that Jeanette
had been asleep she had had visions
of people passing and repassing about
her, An old man had often sat by
her bedside, looking at her curiously
as II studying her. He had often put
his fingers on her wrists and had felt
gently of her head Later IA young
man had replaced him. He had put a
sponge to the base of her brain, and
she had felt Il prickling all over her
body This young man had often
looked down upon her not curiously
as the old one, but pityingly, wistfully,
and with an unrepressed love in his
eyes This was the only part OF her
long sleep that seemed 10 nj all real.
though all her visions were Ritting,
ana as to the time between them she
could take no account of that.
She lay wondering how she had
been removed in one night THIS was
all she knew of the interval from
her tumbcdown home into this fine
mansion. how she should have 80 In
creased IN size ana thinking of the
young man who had looked at her
lovingly Suddenly the door opened
and she heard voice say:
Examine her carefully today, doc.
tor. She has shown signs OF awaken.
ing since you We're last here"
81 will" replied voice that sound.
ed familiar 10 Jeanette, and In walked
the young man who had appeared TO
her in her sleep.
When he saw her looking at him
wide awake he started. Then a sud
den Joy Lit up his face, and. raising his
EYES, he exclaimed:
My God. thank theer
Reopening the door. he ran out Into
the hall and called:
"Shr has awakenedv'
Then "Pnnette's mother came in,
and. seein" Yer daughter looking at her,
would h' Nrown herself upon her
had NOT nee Young doctor restrained
her
He sent every onr out OF the room