"You lost, yah, I know dot! You lose all your cases, huh, pretty much, aindt it so?"
Marriott flamed hotly.
"No, it isn't so," he retorted, stepping back a little. "I have been unfortunate, I know, in your case, and in Archie's, but I did--"
"Ho!" scoffed Koerner in his tremendous voice. "Vell! Maybe you like to lose anudder case. Hier! I gif you von!"
With a sudden and elaborate flourish of the arm he stretched over his crutch, he delivered a document to Marriott, and Marriott saw that it was the summons in the foreclosure suit.
"I s'pose we lose dot case, too, aindt it?"
"Yes," said Marriott thoughtfully and sadly, tapping his hand with the paper, "we'll lose this. When did you get it?"
"Dis morning. A deputy sheriff, he brought 'im--"
"And he told you--"
"'Bout de oder von? Yah, dot's so."