A woman tells her physician that she mistakenly gave her suitor, Reverend John Fenn, a poison instead of a love potion. The doctor tells the woman to move on. However, Dr. Lavendar, the town’s revered minister, counsels the doctor to prescribe that his patient confess. The woman's father is a strange twist to the story. He's an Irvingite—an English religious movement launched in the 1830s—from a Beaver County village on the Ohio River who's moved up stream with his daughter to Old Chester, where he awaits the Holy Spirit to drive him to speak in tongues and to prophesize.
}, year = {1912}, pages = {84 p.}, publisher = {Harper & Brothers}, address = {New York}, note = {A reprint of a long short story in Harper's (1904).
}, language = {English}, }