Goodness knows what the poor critter 'll do . She has n't a cent nor a relation -- she was just an orphan girl that Palmer brought up . She is at Rawlingses now . Maybe when Min cools off , she 'll let her go back but it 's doubtful . Min hates her like p ` isen . '' To Telford this was all very unintelligible . But he understood that Mrs. Fuller was in trouble of some kind and that it was his duty to help her if possible , although he had an odd and unaccountable aversion to the woman , for which he had often reproached himself . `` Who is this woman you call Min Palmer ? '' he said coldly . `` What are the family circumstances ? 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 . Her people were a queer crowd and Min was never brung up right -- jest let run wild all her life . Well , Rod Palmer took to dancin ' attendance on her . Rod was a worthless scamp .
Old Palmer was well off and Rod was his only child , but this Rose lived there and kept house for them after Mis ' XXXXX died .
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