And he believed he should also have gone with Jolly Roger into the blackness and mystery of the storm, to fight with him against the one creature in all the world he hated--the dead man who lay back in the thickness of gloom between the forest walls.
And the Missioner was saying to Nada, in a quiet, calm voice out of which the tragedies of years had burned all excitement and passion: "God will forgive him, my child.

In His mercy He will forgive Roger McKay, because he killed Jed Hawkins to save YOU.

But man will not forgive.

The law has been hunting him because he is an outlaw, and to outlawry he has added what the law will call murder.

But God will not look at it in that way.