Verite I hadn’t figured for superstitious. John, I don’t know about, but they’re both telling me this. Makes me wonder who started this gossip, and how they managed to get at least three people in town picking up on it. “When you say ‘the devil,’ do you mean Lucifer-Satan-Beelzebub, I guess? The one from the Bible? Because that’s going to take some convincing for me to believe. Or are we talking about someone who kicks dogs and is generally mean to everyone?” The liquor’s making my tongue loose, but it’s not making me any more gullible.