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Updated: July 13, 2025
I'm only sorry for those on the outside, who are called children of the devil and are not allowed in the game. But, of course, you don't feel that way." Ingmar was thoroughly put out with the old man for speaking so disparagingly of Hellgum. "There used to be such peace and harmony in this parish!" the old man rattled on. "But that's all past and gone.
She wouldn't have minded striking him." "Oh, Gertrude can talk all right," said Ingmar approvingly. "She told Hellgum that he had behaved like a heathen warrior and not as a Christian preacher, in skulking about like that in the night and abducting a young girl." "What did Hellgum say to that?"
"God bless you, Ingmar, for helping Hellgum!" she said gently. "It took a man's courage to do that, and a man's strength, too!" Ingmar tramped straight ahead, paying no heed whatever to his sister. Then Karin ran past him and planted herself in his way. He stepped aside without so much as glancing at her. "Go and help Hellgum!" he muttered. "Let me explain, Ingmar!
Ingmar replied that maybe he would, but that he must think it over first. "All winter I longed for you to come home and share our bliss," the sister went on, "for now we no longer live upon earth, but in 'The New Jerusalem which is come down from Heaven!" Ingmar said he was glad to hear that Hellgum was still in the neighbourhood.
Ingmar answered that, on the contrary, he had heard that Hellgum had become a big man. "Yes, he has grown so big and strong that he's been able to upset the whole parish," Strong Ingmar sneered. It seemed strange to Ingmar that the old man never evinced a particle of affection for any of his own kin. He cared for nobody and for nothing save the Ingmarssons and the Ingmar Farm.
Altogether there were about twenty people present. When Hellgum and Anna Lisa had gone round and shaken hands with every one, Tims Halvor said: "We who are assembled here have been thinking over the things Hellgum has said to us during the summer. Most of us belong to an old family whose wish it has ever been to walk in the ways of God. If Hellgum can help us do this, we are ready to follow him."
Several among those who had lately become followers of Hellgum, used to call on the Dean's widow in the old days, and bring her little gifts; but since their conversion they had separated themselves from all who were not of their faith; so they no longer went to see her. No one knew whether she understood why they did not come.
Then, to and behold, one evening Tims Halvor came over to the croft and invited Hellgum and his wife to come with him to the Ingmar Farm! On arriving they found everything in holiday order; around the house all the old dry birch leaves had been cleared away; farm implements and carts, which at other times were scattered about the yard, had now been put out of sight.
The three strangers all of them big, powerful men were attacking him with clubs. They carried no guns, so it was evident that they had come simply to give Hellgum a sound thrashing. But because he had put up a good fight, they were so enraged that they went at him with intent to kill. They hardly noticed Ingmar; they regarded him as nothing but a lank gawk of a boy who had just happened in.
Naturally, when a person has been away from home for a long time he does not care to be told unpleasant things, but wants every one around him to be bright and cheerful. At five the next morning Ingmar got down to the mill, but Strong Ingmar was there ahead of him. "To-day you can see Hellgum," the old man began. "He and Anna Lisa got back late last night.
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