“You mean in thought, I take it?” he suggested.
Guest the One-eyed looked at him. “You are not without sense,” he remarked. “Do you travel in thought yourself?”
The young man laughed, and shook his head. “Not much. But I am going to America this winter.”
“Do not do that,” said the other quietly.
“Why not? There is good money to be made there.”
“True. But it is easiest to die in the place where one was born.”
“I have not thought of dying just yet.”
“Maybe not. But life leads only to death. Death is the only thing we can be certain of gaining; perhaps the only gain.”
“I had heard that Guest the One-eyed preached the Gospel of Life,” said the young man seriously.
“And you are disappointed to find that Guest the One-eyed is only human after all?”