HOW STORRI HAD A VIVID IMAGINATION Storri had no more of moral nature than has a tiger or a kite.

He was founded upon no integrity, would keep faith with no one save himself.
Storri was not a moral lunatic, for that would suppose some original morality and its subversion to insane aims; rather he was the moral idiot.

At that, his imbecility paused with his morals; in what a world calls business he was notably bright and forward.
Storri was of education, had traveled wide and far, as ones of his predatory stamp are prone to do, and with a Russian facility for tongues spoke English, German, French, and half the languages of Europe.

The instinctive purpose of Storri's existence was to make money.

To him, money was a prey, and stood as do deer to wolves; and yet, making a fine distinction, he was rapacious, not avaricious.