“Yes. I have six Louis left.”
“Better than that, Major Anspach; there is a treasure in your reach.”
“Perhaps you mean wisdom?”
“No, but something that leads to it.”
“What then do you mean?”
“Labor.”
“Ah, you are a moral reformer.”
“I am but an humble creature of God, major, whose consciousness of his fallibility has led him to pursue the useful conjoined to the good. But I have only discovered one resource that is alike beneficial to mind and body, to the one in this world, to the other in eternity.”
“And this thing,” said M. Anspach thoughtfully, “is labor?”
“Yes, sir, labor—man’s destiny since his creation.”