Eva's Sins.

LII

„The betrayal is a decayed worm that doesn't die when the heart wants it"

  „If years pass and life gives us a second chance, will we use it to do good or to finish to destroy everything that we ever touched?! I also don't know the answer to this question. But yet... I hope that at least once in my life to feel that I really loved someone and to die fulfilled knowing that I didn't live for nothing in this world," Keen read these lines written in Emily's diary that he found fallen under the bed because when Lorenne gathered Miss Davis'things she hurried so much and some of the things „had been left behind."

  One of those things was the diary, and a second one was a small painting in ink that Emily left unfinished on her dressing table: a butterfly.

  „Change ... metamorphosis... resurgence... hope... life and a new beginning," Keen murmured while staring at the small painting that at first glance seemed to be just a cartoon, but it had so much meaning reflected in it.

  „She wanted to start a new life," Keen heard Krane's voice behind him and, smiling, he turned toward the doctor that as always was cleaning his hands with alcohol because even if he was working with the dead ones, what John Krane hated the most it was the misery, especially he hated the human misery.

  „And you are right. It seems that Emily Davis started a new life," Keen answered barely heard, and he tucked the drawing into the jacket pocket he had at his chest. „Did you find something?" he asked the doctor, turning his back to the dressing table on which he found the drawing and looking at those few workers that Krane brought with him to search the „crime place" as he and Keen were thinking to be.

  But he expected too much when he brought the doctor and the rest of the workers into Lorenne's house and Keen had, in the end, to face the disappointment because neither the doctor nor the policemen could find anything on the property that could give proof of Emily and Lorenne's guilt, even if the detective was more than sure that Albert Shin had been killed by them. However, getting on the property, they found nobody. So, they've been forced to break the door and, searching each corner of the house, they found out that Lorenne Fabeau eventually „turned tail" and, with her, Emily Davis'stuff disappeared because if what Lorenne said a night before was true, Emily vanished somewhere, but she took with her no personal stuff. But at that moment, when they searched the house, they found only a few belongings of Emily: the diary in which was almost nothing - only a few thoughts without big meaning and ... the drawing. The rest... was just a mess.

  „Listen, Krane, what do you think - did our fugitive turn after her things or her... things „vanished by themselves", eventually?" Keen said, smiling unsatisfied.

  „I'm more than tempted to think that her „friend" got rid of them," the doctor said, slightly yawning because the closed-in places not only irritated him but were also making him feel asleep.

  „And yet... it seems to me so weird, all this. By Lorenne Fabeau's account, she didn't hide anything being afraid not to be involved in someone's crime. But she hurried up to leave this house eventually and I'm tempted to think that she did this right after I left the house yesterday."

  „It's because of this, one should never do something while he is burning inside because he can eventually burn himself too."

  „Why do you think so?"

  „Because it's true. If there were evidence to prove their guilt, in this house, Lorenne Fabeau took already care to get rid of it. We'll find something, improbably. Nothing else, except that limp bed on which certainly a big love took place because at least this is something real and something we have."