Hindrance
As described elsewhere, Esmé Scarron had to
travel from Austria to Venice to get his final answer from the young girl Meg.
He was in a rather desperate state and uncertain about what awaited him as he
drove over the mountains.
He was delayed when he reached Venice; he finally
rushed into his palazzo to find that his ex-wife and daughter had got there
first and had been speaking against him and revealing his secrets to Meg and
her mother.
I can’t remember exactly what happened to
delay his arrival - someone may have stolen the last gondola from under him the
way some people steal taxis! This anonymous person - Scarron said he would be
forever accursed or something like that - greatly inconvenienced Scarron and
may even have helped to sabotage his plans.
This was the last in a series of
interventions, some of which helped to further Scarron’s evil plans and some of
which helped to hinder them.
Perhaps the outcome would have been exactly
the same if the delaying man had never existed; perhaps it was just all down to
bad luck and chance. However, I suspect that unseen influences were at work.
Which side was behind the intervention? Good
forces like to prevent evil from operating; evil forces like to sabotage
everything and everyone including their own: being on the dark side is no
protection.
Reading about this fictional incident brought
something similar but positive from real life to mind.
