So he performs an unwelcome duty because no one else could be trusted to. He seems filled with remorse and shame, apologizing for killing the young man but why? It would seem a mercy and too it doesn't seem that he's responsible for the bite that brought them to this. Is it because he buried him in a lost soon forgotten place with no indication of what became of him or simply the unfairness of it? Did he leave Louisiana by choice or necessity?
A very well conceived and executed chapter.