The daily Alaskan., 1913-11-11
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 Alice was taken home-that Is, to the only home she knew. The day ended, and she did not recover consciousness. Another day and another, week, month, went by, and still she did not awaken, for her condition seemed Tath- CT that of sleep than what is called comatose. There is recorded e case of a person lying eleven years in such a condition, and the next longest case is that of little Alice, who lay nine { years in constant sIumber.
 Let us pass over this gap in her life as she passed 1t, without taking cog nizance of it, to the awakening. It occurred in the morning about 10 o'clock. For some time previous, 80 she has snid, she felt Q semiconscious- ness, but rather as a dream than a reality. Some one was moving about her, opening blinds, arranging things in the room, rubbing furniture with cloth. This person. though indistinct seemed to be a woman, a maid, though Alice then did not know this meaning of the word. Then for a time al was silent.
 The awakening came by degrees. Alice remembers trying to throw of sleep, realizing that she must get up and be at her post selling papers. Fi- ually she opened her eyes and was surprised to find herself, instead of in the little wooden box she called her room. in a large, well furnished cham Der. She could not grasp the situation or, rather, the connection between 1t and the past. Her first idea-that nat urul to a child-was that @ fairy had taken her out of her bed and carried her to another, perhaps in palace.
 What confused her most was faint memory of having been in that same chamber before. She attempted to sit up in bed, but found it so difficult that she desisted. But she managed to turn on her side and looked straight into a mirror in the door of a wardrobe.
 What did it mean? That reflection was not her own. It was the refec- ton of a young woman. She glanced at her body as 1t appeared under the bcdclothes and saw that 1t was not the body of a child. It extended from the hcadboard nearly to the footboard. Turning again to the image in the mir TOT. she looked at the features. She opened and shut her eyes, moved her lips, to determine if It were her own reflection. It certainly was the re- fection of the person lying on the bed, but that person could not possibly be herself. the child Alice She was be- coming frightened at these incongrui- ties when the door opened and maid stepped into the room. She look ed at Alice with surprise depicted on every feature. Alice looked at her as one bewildered. The maid turned and ran out out of the room.
 She was gone only few moments when. she returned with a woman who looked for all the world like Mrs. Mur- Dhv, though Mrs. Murphy's hair wa. brown and this woman's was a grizzly gray. Nevertheless she ran to the bed and folded Alice in her arms. But, seeing the bewildered expression on the girls face, she said quickly:
 Don't excite yourself. There's been a great change, but It's all well. You have made us all happy by awaken ing"
 Have 1 been long asleep? What does It all mean2 Who amI? I'm not a little girl any more"
 The woman soothed her and little by little gave her enough of the story to make her aware of the fact that long before she had been knocked down by a wagon in the street and had remain ed unconscious for a number of years.
 But what means this other changer asked Alice. "Where am IT This room seems familiar to me. How did I come hereT'
 "Tlm will tell you about that You must remember that Tim Is not now a little boy any more than you are a lit tie girl. He has grown to be a fine young man. But no more at present The doctor told us recently that you were showing signs of awakening and said that if you did awake you must be handled very carefully"
 "Wbere is Tim"
 "He has been sent for and will be here directly"
 "Does he still sell papers2"
 X smile came and went quickly over the woman's features as she replied: "Oh, no. Tim hasn't sold papers for long time. He owns a newspaper him self. Few men of his age have ever succeeded as he has succeeded. But you must hear that from him."
 There was a tap at the door, and 1t was pushed open, and man who look ed to be nearly thirty, though he was but twenty-two, entered the room with an expression of intense happi- ness on his face, which, when he saw the sleeper awakened, broke into joyful smile.
 "Alicer' he exclaimed.
 She lay looking at him in wonder for awhile, then asked:
 Gan you be Tim|