The Trees of Pride

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English christian thinker, journalist and writer late XIX - early XX centuries. Knight Commander with Star of the Order of the Vatican's St. Gregory the Great. Chesterton wrote around 80 books. He has written several hundred poems, 200 short stories, essays of 4000, a number of plays, novels "The Man Who Was Thursday", "Ball and the Cross," "The Flying Inn" and others. 

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has disappeared. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? This is one of the best creations of the author, and so it might be interesting to all readers.