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"It has been said, as you know," Hellgum went on, "that if somebody strikes us on one cheek we must turn the other cheek also, and that we should not resist evil, and other things of the same sort; all of which none of us can live up to. Why, people would rob you of your house and home, they'd steal your potatoes and carry off your grain, if you failed to protect what was yours.
How could they think she would want to leave them, after all they had done for her? They lay there expecting her to say that she would never desert her old parents." "Did she go?" "Yes, Hellgum wouldn't budge till the girl went along with them. When Clementsson and his wife realized that she couldn't resist Hellgum, they let her go. Some folks are like that, you see.
Ingmar looked up and down; he wanted to get away. He knew, to be sure, that the old man had been drawing heavily on his imagination, but all the same this talk depressed him. "I don't deny that Hellgum has done wonders," he modified.
Strong Ingmar had his axe with him, and his grip on the handle tightened as he entered the hut. Inside sat Hellgum with an open Bible before him. He raised his eyes and gave the old man a piercing look, then went on with his reading; this time aloud: "Even as ye think, we will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone, it shall not be at all as ye think.
I guess they'd take the whole Ingmar Farm from you." "Maybe you're right," Halvor admitted. "Well, then, I suppose Christ didn't mean anything when He said all that; He was just talking into the air, eh?" "I don't know what you're driving at!" said Halvor. "Now here's something to set you thinking," Hellgum continued. "We are supposed to be very far advanced in our Christianity.
Ingmar dropped his work and went rushing up the hill. The nearer he approached the hut the plainer he heard Hellgum's cries of distress, and when he finally reached the cabin it seemed as if the very earth around it shook from the scuffling and struggling inside. He cautiously opened the door and tiptoed in. Over against the wall stood Hellgum defending himself with an axe.
Karin and Halvor were perplexed at Ingmar's show of temper; since telling him that about Gertrude, they could not seem to get anywhere near him. "Let Hellgum talk to you," pleaded Karin. "Oh, I'll let him talk to me," said Ingmar, "but first I'd like to know just where I stand." "Surely, Ingmar, you must know that we wish you well!" "But Hellgum is to run the sawmill?"
Sometimes, when there had been a great rush of work at the mill, Hellgum had pulled off his coat and given them a lift. Ingmar had been amazed at the man's cleverness; he had never seen any one who was so quick at his work. Just then Hellgum happened to be away for a few days, but was Expected back shortly. "Once you've talked with Hellgum, I think that you will join us," Karin said.
At that Karin grew angry and two bright red spots appeared in her cheeks. She thought it very presumptuous in Hellgum to think this illness had come upon her simply to give him an opportunity to perform a miracle. Presently the preacher got up and went over to Karin. Placing his heavy hand on her head, he asked: "Do you want me to pray for you?"
"So she wants to become one of you!" he murmured faintly. "Many things can happen here while one is up in the dark forest." Ingmar seemed to think that all this time Hellgum had been ingratiating himself with Gertrude, and had laid snares to catch her. "But what's to become of me?" he asked suddenly. And there was a strange, helpless appeal in his voice.
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