informed his patron that he was intending to leave the city permanently
the same evening, and referred him to other practitioners.  That night the
house of Julian West took fire and was wholly destroyed.  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. 

One hundred and thirteen years later, in September, A.  D.  2000, Dr.
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.  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.  Although great
trees had been growing above the vault, the unaccountable preservation of
the youth's body tempted Dr.  Leete to attempt resuscitation, and to his
own astonishment his efforts proved successful.  The sleeper returned to
life, and after a short time to the full vigor of youth which his
appearance had indicated.  His shock on learning what had befallen him was
so great as to have endangered his sanity but for the medical skill of
Dr.  Leete, and the not less sympathetic ministrations of the other