Was Arthur crafty as well as able?
With the human conscience ever eager to prove that what is personally advantageous is also right, how easy for a man in his circumstances to convince himself that any course would be justifiable in upsetting the "injustice" of Hiram Ranger's will.
"However," continued Whitney, "I've no doubt he's as honest as his father--and I couldn't say more than that.

The only question is whether we can risk giving him the chance to show what there is in him." Dr.Hargrave was looking dazedly from one of his colleagues to the other, as if he thought his mind were playing him a trick.

"It is impossible--preposterous!" he exclaimed.
"A man has to make a beginning," said Whitney.

"How can he show what there is in him unless he gets a chance?
It seems to me, doctor, we owe it to Hiram to do this for the boy.

We can keep an eye and a hand on him.
What do you think, senator ?" Scarborough had won at every stage of his career, not merely because he had convictions and the courage of them, but chiefly because he had the courage to carry through the plans he laid in trying to make his convictions effective.