All I Earn Is Mine to Keep

"I will tell you these things because I am becoming an old man, and an old tongue loves to wag," he said. "The wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course." He looked at me shrewdly from under his shaggy brows and said in a low forceful tone, 'I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep' Then he continued to look at me with a glance that I could feel pierced me but said no more. But when he returned at Sunup, the tablets were complete.