"That's where most of them are going," said Marriott.
But Koerner did not see the joke.
"How's your injury?" asked Marriott.
Koerner winced perceptibly at Marriott's mere glance at his amputated leg, and stretched the pipe-stem over it as if in protection.
"He's hurt like hell," he said.
"Why, hasn't the pain left yet?" asked Marriott in surprise.
"No, I got der rheumatiz' in dot foot," he pointed with his pipe-stem at the vacancy where the foot used to be.
"That foot!" exclaimed Marriott.
"Bess told us of that," Dick put in. "It gave her the willies."
"Well, I should think so," said Marriott.