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Updated: May 10, 2025
The clock on the mantelpiece struck nine. They were all at supper, at Tadmor talking over the events of the day. He saw himself again at the long wooden table, with shy little Mellicent in the chair next to him, and his favourite dog at his feet waiting to be fed. Where was Mellicent now?
Light corps d'armee have no doubt occasionally passed from Circesium by way of Tadmor to Damascus, and vice versa; but the ordinary line of route pursued by conquerors follows the course of the Euphrates to Carchemish, then strikes across the chalky upland in the middle of which stands the city of Aleppo, and finally descends upon Egypt by way of the Orontes, the Coele-Syrian valley, and the plains of Sharon and Philistia.
"No," said Rufus, speaking quietly to himself, "the boy is not raving mad, so far as I can see. He has every appearance on him of meaning what he says. And this is what comes of the Community of Tadmor, is it? Well, civil and religious liberty is dearly purchased sometimes in the United States and that's a fact." Amelius turned away to pack his portmanteau. "I don't understand you," he said.
But Tadmor, rich in books and newspapers, was a powerless training institution in the matter of small talk. "Suppose Mr. Farnaby is obliged to go abroad," he suggested, after waiting a little, "what will you do?" Regina looked at him, with an air of melancholy surprise. "I shall do my duty, of course," she answered gravely. "I shall accompany my dear uncle, if he wishes it."
Haven't I told you already, it's a lie? I'll answer to it, Amelius is true to you. Will that do? No? You're an obstinate one, Miss that you are. Well! it's due to the boy that I should set him right with you, if words will do it. You know how he's been brought up at Tadmor? Bear that in mind and now you shall have the truth of it, on the word of an honest man."
Even the name of Tadmor, or Palmyra, by its signification in the Syriac as well as in the Latin language, denoted the multitude of palm-trees which afforded shade and verdure to that temperate region. The air was pure, and the soil, watered by some invaluable springs, was capable of producing fruits as well as corn.
My stupid eyes were opened at last by the woman who slept in the next bed to her in the dormitory a woman old enough to be my mother, who took care of me when I was a child at Tadmor. She stopped me one morning, on my way to fish in the river. 'Amelius, she said, 'don't go to the fishing-house; Mellicent is waiting for you. I stared at her in astonishment.
It proved to be written by the lawyers who had already communicated with him at Tadmor, on the subject of his inheritance. "The enclosed, insufficiently addressed as you will perceive, only reached us this day. We beg to remain, etc." Amelius opened the letter enclosed, and turned to the signature for information. The name instantly took him back to the Community: the writer was Mellicent.
Here in Waco our religious zeal registers 600 in the shade, and when we hold a love-feast you can hear the unctuous echoes of our hosannahs from Tadmor in the Wilderness to the Pillars of Hercules. We believe with St. Paul that faith without works is dead; hence we gird up our loins with the sweet cestus of love, grab our guns and go whooping forth to "capture the world for Christ."
By the Holy Sepulchre, I see it! said Fakredeen. 'I tell you how I will manage the whole business. The great Sheikh wants arms; well, I will give him five hundred muskets for the ransom, and he shall have the convoy besides. He'll take it. I know him. He thinks now all is lost, and, when he finds that he is to have a jingling purse and English muskets enough to conquer Tadmor, he will close.
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