The early bird gets the worm wherever you go
By providing a different perspective and encouraging the Englishman to never give up, the boy helps him to discover the alchemist.
The underlined word of the sentence which "conclusive" would have a denotation of "impossible to disprove" as it is used in the sentence. Furthermore, a denotation is the "literal" meaning of a word or some may refer to it as the "dictionary definition or meaning."
I think the answer is present because after is earlier before okay