Guard with a failing heart

A Guard with a failing heart was a Darujhistan city guardsman of twenty years' service, who had been born with a 'flawed' heart and was slowly dying of heart disease.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US TPB p.120/138Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US TPB p.317Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US TPB p.437Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.690/709-712 He had a loving wife and children.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.1000
==In Toll the Hounds==
The guard seemed to work on single patrol in all areas of the city other than the Estate District.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.863 In one instance, he witnessed Harllo stealing vegetables from Thordy's market stand in the Gadrobi District. But he judged the marketplace too crowded to catch the boy and did not pursue.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145 On another night, he came across Mappo Runt looking for the Temple of Burn. While leading the Trell to the temple's location in the Daru District, they stumbled upon a corpse near the Blue Ball Tavern. The unusual wounds indicated it was the same killer that had already brutally beaten four others to death.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.168-170 The conscientious guardsman made it his crusade to identify the killer even at the expense of his already failing health.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, when the world's powers converged on Darujhistan, he finally caught a break in the case. Coll and Kruppe found the body of Councillor Hanut Orr brutally beaten to death in the alley behind the Phoenix Inn. Kruppe sent Sulty out into the chaotic streets to find a guardsman, and she returned with guard with the failing heart. The guard quickly realised it was the same killer as the others, based on the mysterious markings left on the corpse. But when Kruppe pointed out the wounds were not signs of a foreign weapon, but the injuries left by a fingerless hand, the guard had an epiphany. He knew of such a man and raced to Gaz and Thordy's home despite the pain surging from his chest to his skull.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.861-865
As he approached the killer's home, Hood, the Lord of Death, physically manifested there as a result of Thordy's efforts to summon him. The god found the guard dying in the street where he had collapsed amidst a soon-to-be-fatal heart attack. Taking note of the man's character, the god determined that justice, for once, would win out over the harshness of death.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.712-713 
Then Hood brought the guardsman back to full, vigorous life; heart-whole and completely free of pain.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.711-712
Inside Gaz and Thordy's home the revitalised guard found Thordy standing over Gaz' body. She claimed Gaz had confessed to the crimes, so she killed him. Then she asked the guard for the killer's reward.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.865-869 Thordy received her bag of coins and the guard returned to the arms of his family.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.1000
==Notes and references==
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