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                           WITHIN THE GATES

                                  BY

                        ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

                            [Illustration]

                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                     HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
                    The Riverside Press, Cambridge
                                 1901

           COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD
                         ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.


This drama has so departed from the plan of the original story, “The
Gates Between,” published by me long ago, that it is, in fact, a new
work, and has therefore received a new title.--E. S. P. W.




DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.


    DOCTOR ESMERALD THORNE, _a city physician_.
    HELEN THORNE, _his wife_.
    LADDIE, _their child_. (_Between four and five years of age._)
    MRS. FAYTH, _a patient of the Doctor’s, and a friend
      of Mrs. Thorne’s, an invalid_.
    DOCTOR GAZELL, _a hospital physician not in harmony with Dr. Thorne_.
    DR. CARVER, _a young surgeon_.
    MAGGIE, _a maid_.

A Priest, Nurses, Patients, Servants, People in the Street, Spirits, the
Angel Azrael.




WITHIN THE GATES




ACT I., SCENE I.


     A library in a city house. A dining-room opens beyond a portière.
     The dinner-table is set. The library is furnished in red leather
     and dark wood. Books run to the ceiling. The carpet is
     indeterminate in tone. The heavy curtains are of a rich, dark
     crimson. A window is to be seen. The library is littered a little
     with the signs of feminine occupation. At one of the tables sits
     Mrs. Thorne. She is a young and beautiful woman, of stately
     presence and modest, high-bred manner. She is well-dressed--but not