Through the Ivory Gate by Shipman Andrews is about Philip Beckwith's ordinary life in Fairfield and the very unordinary dream he repeatedly has where a little boy presents to him a mysterious key. Excerpt: “Breeze filtered through shuffling leafage, the June morning sunlight came in at the open window by the boy's bed, under the green shades, across the shadowy, white room, and danced a noiseless dance of youth and freshness and springtime against the wall opposite. The boy's head stirred on his pillow. He spoke a quick word from out of his dream. “The key?” he said inquiringly, and the sound of his voice awoke him.”
