WITHIN THE GATES
BY
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
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.