Abner goes before a judge to prove that he has been wronged. Although justice still finds him guilty, he reduces the fine. But this isn't enough for Abner. This pushes Abner to take matters into his own hands once again. His father invites him to go to their stable and retrieve a can of oil. Sarty heads towards the stable. Then he realizes that he was doing what he was told out of obligation. "Then he moved, ran, out of the house, towards the stable: this was the old habit, the old blood that he had not been allowed to choose for himself." (Faulkner 181) Although he is tormented by his choice, he returns with the can. When Sarty realizes that Abner won't send a warning, he feels like Abner is breaking his own moral code. Then he knows he has to do the right thing and warn de Spain. Abner knows he wants to say it, so he wants him arrested. Finally, having managed to free himself, he leaves to warn de Spain. After his warning, Sarty hears three shots fired. In a moment of guilt, he calls his father. "" Dad! Daddy!”, running again before realizing he had started running, looking back over his shoulder to see the glow as he rose, running through the invisible trees, panting, sobbing, “Father! Father!”” (Faulkner 183) The transition from a term of endearment to something more formal shows Sarty putting emotional distance between himself and his father. In William Faulkner's story “Barn Burning”