Chapter I: Front Matter

_FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY_

By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

(MRS. WARD)

THE GATES AJAR. 16mo, $1.50.

BEYOND THE GATES. 16mo, $1.25.

THE GATES BETWEEN. 16mo, $1.25.

WITHIN THE GATES. A Drama. 12mo, $1.25.

MEN, WOMEN, AND GHOSTS. Stories. 16mo, $1.50.

HEDGED IN. 16mo, $1.50.

THE SILENT PARTNER. 16mo, $1.50.

THE STORY OF AVIS. 16mo, $1.50.

SEALED ORDERS, and Other Stories. 16mo, $1.50.

FRIENDS: A Duet. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents.

DOCTOR ZAY. 16mo, $1.25.

AN OLD MAID’S PARADISE, and BURGLARS IN PARADISE. 16mo, $1.25.

THE MASTER OF THE MAGICIANS. Collaborated with HERBERT D. WARD.
16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents.

COME FORTH! Collaborated with HERBERT D. WARD. 16mo, $1.25; paper,
50 cents.

FOURTEEN TO ONE. Short Stories. 16mo, $1.25.

DONALD MARCY. 16mo, $1.25.

A SINGULAR LIFE. 16mo, $1.25.

THE SUPPLY AT SAINT AGATHA’S. Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.00.

THE MADONNA OF THE TUBS. Illustrated. Square 12mo, boards, 75
cents.

JACK THE FISHERMAN. Illustrated. Square 12mo, boards, 50 cents.

THE SUCCESSORS OF MARY THE FIRST. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.

LOVELINESS: A Story. Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.00.

CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.

THE STORY OF JESUS CHRIST: An Interpretation. Illustrated. Crown
8vo, $2.00.

THE SAME. _Popular Edition._ Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

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.

WITHIN THE GATES