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Updated: May 8, 2025
I ought to know, perhaps, if I am to be of any service but I have no wish to hear idle gossip." His concluding sentence was quite unheeded by Galletly. "Min Palmer's the worst woman in Rykman's Corner or out of it. She always was an odd one. I mind her when she was a girl a saucy, black-eyed baggage she was! Handsome, some folks called her. I never c'd see it.
A young man was driving down the road to Rykman's Corner; the youthful face visible above the greatcoat was thoughtful and refined, the eyes deep blue and peculiarly beautiful, the mouth firm yet sensitive. It was not a handsome face, but there was a strangely subtle charm about it. The chill breathlessness of the air seemed prophetic of more snow.
He took his place among the contributors to the new magazine not as a controversialist but as a man of letters, with such poems as "Tritemius," and "Skipper Ireson's Ride." Characteristic productions of this period are "My Psalm," "Cobbler Keezar's Vision," "Andrew Rykman's Prayer," "The Eternal Goodness" poems grave, sweet, and tender.
It was some lower level to which he had come with good tidings and honest intentions but, unconsciously, he had held himself above it, and his people felt and resented this. They expressed it by saying he was "stuck-up." Rykman's Corner came into view as he drove over the brow of a long hill.
He knew, as if by revelation, that this woman had nothing in common with the narrow, self-righteous souls of Rykman's Corner. Warped and perverted though her nature might be, she was yet far nobler than those who sat in judgement upon her. Min made some scanty purchases and left the store quickly, brushing unheedingly past the minister as she did so.
He hated the place, knowing it well for what it was a festering hotbed of gossip and malice, the habitat of all the slanderous rumours and innuendoes that permeated the social tissue of the community. The newest scandal, the worst-flavoured joke, the latest details of the most recent quarrel, were always to be had at Rykman's store.
That was a grand sermon ye gave us last Sunday, Mr. Telford. Reckon it went home to some folks, judgin' from all I've heard. It was needed and that's a fact. 'Live peaceably with all men' that's what I lay out to do. There ain't a house in the district but what I can drop into and welcome. 'Tain't everybody in Rykman's Corner can say the same."
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