Credulity is a curious thing, " went on Treherne in a low voice. "It is more negative than positive, and yet it is infinite. Hundreds of men will avoid walking under a ladder, they don't know where the door of the ladder will lead. They don't really think God would throw a thunderbolt at them for such a thing. They don't know what would happen, that is just the point, but yet they step aside as from a precipice. So the poor people here may or may not believe anything, they don't go into those trees at night." Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.