deserveful

Updated: August 3, 2026

And to those who may doubt his mendacity, surely there are but few, let me state, that if his story is true; if he broke salt with this man, John Borg, and lay in his blankets while murder was done; if he did hear, unmoved, the voice of the man calling to him for help; if he did lie there and watch that carnival of butchery without his manhood prompting him, let me state, gentlemen, I say, let me state that he is none the less deserveful of hanging.

Jack London - A Daughter of the Snows