It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.

Raskolnikov confesses to the police, not because he has failed or been caught, but because he knows he cannot resolve the torment of his questionableness or suppress the inward debate.

As if realising the unorthodoxy and fragility of his moan, the author has, at the end of this piece, in a counter productive dash, even invoked the name of the U.S. secretary of state, a move which will only add more questionableness to his cause.