It was at his own very earnest request that they inscribed "He fought the good fight" upon his tombstone, and though I cannot doubt that he had Black Bank and Crab Wilson in his mind when he asked it, yet none who knew him would grudge its spiritual meaning as a summing up of his clean and manly life.
«Il livra le bon combat», inscrivit-on à sa prière, sur sa pierre funéraire, et quoique je sois convaincu que ses dernières pensées furent pour Baruch le Noir et Wilson le Crabe, aucun de ceux qui le connaissaient ne se refusait à voir un sens symbolique dans ce résumé de sa vie d'honnête et vaillant homme.