On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Howard Brazee wrote: > If Vlad is somehow connected to that finger [...] There's a mid-century short story by a leading American writer about a saint who in his days as a sinner lost his big toe to the devil playing poker. When the angel comes to take the saint to heaven, Satan refuses to give up the toe, and the poor saint still feels the fires of hell in his lost digit. Anyway, something like that. Maybe it's by Steinbeck - google isn't helping.