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Updated: June 6, 2025
You get yourself right along down!" With painful slowness Elim made his preparations to descend; his fingers could hardly buckle the stiff strap of his revolver sling, but finally he made his way downstairs through a deep narrow hall. He turned from a blank wall to a darkened reception room, with polished mahogany, somber books and engravings on the walls, and a rosy blur of fire in the hearth.
His ringing voice was answered in an assent that rolled in a solid volume of sound up the stairs. Elim Meikeljohn's soul leaped in the supreme kinship that linked him, man to man, with all.
He immediately produced the fruit cake. "It's really quite satisfactory," she continued, eating; "It's like the rest of this unreal.... What is your name?" she demanded unexpectedly. "Elim Meikeljohn." "That's a very Northern sort of name." "It would be hard to come by one more so," he agreed. "It's from the highlands of Scotland." "Then if you don't mind, I'll think of you as Scotch right now."
And then pass men by the Well of Marah, of the which the water was first bitter; but the children of Israel put therein a tree, and anon the water was sweet and good for to drink. And then go men by desert unto the vale of Elim, in the which vale be twelve wells; and there be seventy-two trees of palm, that bear the dates the which Moses found with the children of Israel.
A feeling of happy irresponsibility deepened. He lost sight of the probable unhappiness of tomorrow, the catastrophe that was yesterday; Elim was radiantly content with the present. "You look Northern too," she went on; "you are so much more solemn than the Virginia men I mean your face is." "I suppose I've had a solemn sort of existence," he agreed.
They were all irrepressibly gay, calling from roof to ground, each begging the photographer to focus on his own particular charm. Perhaps fifty cents Elim Meikeljohn would have liked a place in the picture; he would like to possess one, to keep it as a memento of the youthful life that flowed constantly about him, but the probable cost was prohibitive.
The winter of his marriage Elim departed for college his father was a just man, who had felt obscurely that some reparation was due Elim; education was the greatest privilege of which Meikeljohn could conceive, so, at sacrifices that all grimly accepted, Elim was sent to Cambridge.
Then the children of Israel came in to Elim, where as were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees, and they abode by the waters.
The professor of philosophy and letters had undertaken the task primarily; but, with the multiplication of his duties, he had turned the essays over to Elim, whose careful judgments had been sufficiently imposing to secure for him a slight additional income. He sat for a moment regarding the papers with a frown; then, with a sudden movement, he went over the names that headed each paper.
Until the present he had totally overlooked the depleted state of his fortune. Elim had some arrears of pay, but now he seriously doubted whether they were collectible. Nothing else. He had emerged from the war brevetted major but as penniless as the morning of his enlistment. He doubted whether, in the hurry of departure, Rosemary Roselle had remembered to bring any money.
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