The moral debate was strenuous enough.

The murders had roused all the humane and ethical instincts, which were in fact the man, to such a point that they pursued him constantly, in the pauses of his crowded days, like avenging Erinnyes.

Hallin's remark that "game-preserving creates crime" left him no peace.

Intellectually he argued it, and on the whole rejected it; morally, and in feeling, it scourged him.

He had suffered all his mature life under a too painful and scrupulous sense that he, more than other men, was called to be his brother's keeper.