It was so terribly serious over such trivial things--like himself, for instance.

It could not seem to sleep or rest until a man was hanged, or snugly put behind hard steel, no matter how well that man loved his human-kind--and the world.

And Jolly Roger loved both.

In his heart he believed he had not committed a crime by achieving justice where otherwise there would have been no justice.

Yet outwardly he cursed himself for a lawbreaker.