The Evil That Men Do.(Inspector Faro Mystery No.11) (17 page)

And heading towards the Central Office, as he had done for so many years, and the next case that was waiting for him, he remembered one indisputable lesson life had taught him. Broken hearts are seldom fatal. That given time and patience they invariably heal.

He mustn’t abandon hope. Without hope life was indeed a derelict wasteland.

Hope for a daughter that the pangs of first love would heal. Hope for Vince that his beloved Grace would return to him one day and together they would mend their broken lives that had been the Langweil legacy. Hope for himself, for that hazy unknown future and a final confrontation and outwitting of a master criminal.

‘The evil that men do lives after them.’ So Shakespeare had said. A truth that still remained unalterable and would continue to remain so until man and time itself were no more.