But it is a good example of the worth that may lie in a mere product of imagination.
There was a king once, in Persia or Arabia, who, at the time of his accession to power, discovered a wonderful subterranean hall under the garden of his palace.

In one chamber of that hall stood six marvellous statues of young girls, each statue being made out of a single diamond.
The beauty as well as the cost of the work was beyond imagination.

But in the midst of the statues, which stood in a circle, there was an empty pedestal, and on that pedestal was a precious casket containing a letter from the dead father of the king.

The letter said: "O my son, though these statues of girls are indeed beyond all praise, there is yet a seventh statue incomparably more precious and beautiful which I could not obtain before I died.

It is now your duty, O my son, to obtain that statue, that it may be placed upon the seventh pedestal.