"'What time I am afraid I will trust in thee.'"
"Hold on there," said Renwick. "I'm not afraid, sir, and I don't expect to be."
"You will be, quite unexpectedly, some day, when you get into the section room and find you have left your wits in barracks. But put a broad white mark here, and keep it white:
"'Walk in the light.'"
"Keep out of all dark ways, Mr. Renwick. You can have the Lord's help every time and all the time, on those terms."
Renwick looked at him again.
"Well, that's the first time I ever heard of getting through West Point so," he said.
"Tiptop way, you'll find," said Magnus.
"And that is your whole list of directions?"
"Finished up with the first one: dig! You must work like all the beavers between whiles, or you'll never have the face to pray such prayers."