It would be as difficult to prove that it was not true as to prove that Smith is not honest in his delusion.

We can only fall back upon what Butler would call 'a strong presumption.'" Mrs.Croom, consciously or not, made a little sharp rap on the table, and there was a movement of suppressed misery like a quiver in her slender upright form.

Her voice was low and tremulous.

"If you'd got religion, Ephraim, you wouldn't speak in that light manner of one who has the awful wickedness of adding to the words of the Book." Ephraim continued to enlighten the preacher in a stronger tone.

"Whether the man is mad or false, almost all the immoralities that you will hear reported about him are, as far as I can make out, not true.