Which line from the text best supports the theme "Hard work pays off in the end”? When he dug it up again a year later after the surrender all it needed was a little palm-oil greasing. At the end of a fortnight he had made a small fortune of one hundred and fifteen pounds. That must have been the last thought in Jonathan’s mind before he was finally carried away himself. He couldn’t have been gone for long, though, when he was violently awakened again.