155
XIII. MRS. FRANKLAND 162
XIV. MRS. FRANKLAND AND PHILLIDA 176
XV. TWO WAYS 185
XVI. A SEANCE AT MRS. VAN HORNE'S 193
XVII. A FAITH CURE 201
XVIII. FAITH-DOCTOR AND LOVER 208
XIX. PROOF POSITIVE 213
XX. DIVISIONS 225
XXI. MRS. HILBROUGH'S INFORMATION 232
XXII. WINTER STRAWBERRIES 242
XXIII. A SHINING EXAMPLE 249
XXIV. THE PARTING 256
XXV. MRS. FRANKLAND'S REPENTANCE 266
XXVI. ELEANOR ARABELLA BOWYER 280
XXVII. A BAD CASE 294
XXVIII. DR. BESWICK'S OPINION 302
XXIX. MILLARD AND RUDOLPH 314
XXX. PHILLIDA AND PHILIP 321
XXXI. A CASE OF BELIEF IN DIPHTHERIA 332
XXXII. FACE TO FACE 345
XXXIII. A FAMOUS VICTORY 352
XXXIV. DOCTORS AND LOVERS 364
XXXV. PHILLIDA AND HER FRIENDS 374
XXXVI. MRS. BESWICK 383
XXXVII. DR. GUNSTONE'S DIAGNOSIS 388
XXXVIII. PHILIP'S CONFESSION 398
XXXIX. PHILIP IMPROVES AN OPPORTUNITY 407
XL. THE RESTORATION 415
XLI. AS YOU LIKE IT 422

THE FAITH DOCTOR.

I.

THE ORIGIN OF A MAN OF FASHION.

It was the opinion of a good many people that Charles Millard was
"something of a dude." But such terms are merely relative; every fairly
dressed man is a dude to somebody. There are communities in this free
land of ours in which the wearing of a coat at dinner is a most
disreputable mark of dudism.

That Charles Millard was accounted a dude was partly Nature's fault. If
not handsome, he was at least fine-looking, and what connoisseurs in
human exteriors call stylish. Put him into a shad-bellied drab and he
would still have retained traces of dudishness; a Chatham street outfit
could hardly have