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Title: The Faith Healer
A Play in Three Acts

Author: William Vaughn Moody

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Language: English

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THE FAITH HEALER

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

THE FAITH HEALER

A Play in Three Acts

By

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY

AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT DIVIDE," ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1910

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910,
BY WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PERSONS OF THE PLAY

ULRICH MICHAELIS
MATTHEW BEELER
MARY BEELER, _his wife_
MARTHA BEELER, _his sister_
ANNIE BEELER, _his daughter_
RHODA WILLIAMS, _Mrs. Beeler's niece_
DR. GEORGE LITTLEFIELD
REV. JOHN CULPEPPER
UNCLE ABE, _an old negro_
AN INDIAN BOY
A YOUNG MOTHER WITH HER BABY
VARIOUS SICK PEOPLE AND OTHERS ATTENDANT UPON THEM

ACT I

_A large old-fashioned room in Matthew Beeler's farm-house, near a
small town in the Middle West. The room is used for dining and for
general living purposes. It suggests, in architecture and furnishings,
a past of considerable prosperity, which has now given place to more
humble living. The house is, in fact, the ancestral home of Mr.
Beeler's wife, Mary, born Beardsley, a family of the local farming
aristocracy, now decayed. At the rear is a large double window, set in
a broad alcove. To the right of the window is the entrance door, which
opens upon the side yard, showing bushes, trees, and farm buildings._

_In the right wall of the room a door and covered stairway lead to the
upper story. Farther forward is a w