Ervin: So it’s just an awful thing for a very trusting soul like me to find that there are human beings who would perpetrate a hoax like this.

“Maybe I’m just not a trusting soul,” the Clippers coach said.

Clippers coach Doc Rivers called James’ return “the worst-kept secret of maybe ever. Maybe I’m not just a trusting soul. I just thought it was too obvious when yesterday out of nowhere he’s out. Usually you don’t hear it that early. I told our coaches then, he’s in.”

Francoeur, a trusting soul, never suspected a thing.

Nay, rather we will seek Him as the prodigal son sought Him; we will go to Him as to a father; we will address Him as a Father; we will betake ourselves to Him with a child's penitent heart, with a child's trusting soul, with a child's yearning embrace, and He will have compassion on us, will hasten to meet us, though we may be yet a great way off, and we shall be locked once more in His everlasting arms.