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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: solemnly to stand by him and not to compromise, even if all kith and kin were
destroyed.
The next day I was surprised at his cheerfulness. I had thought he would be
deeply shocked by this last tragedy--how deep I was soon to learn. All day he
was light-hearted and high-spirited, as though at last he had found a way out
of the frightful difficulty. The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a
peaceful smile upon his careworn face--asphyxiation. Through the connivance of
the police and the authorities, it was given out to the world as heart
disease. We deemed it wise to withhold the truth; but little good has it done
us, little good has anything done us.
Barely had I left that chamber of death, when--but too late--the following
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