"The Fate of Faustina" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

[2] The noise of some Neapolitan organ-grinders outside their flat reminds Raffles of his time spent in Italy.

Raffles finally tells Bunny what happened to him after he fled the police during the events of "The Gift of the Emperor": Pretending to be a shipwrecked sailor, Raffles briefly finds work as a miner on the island of Elba.

After Raffles prods her, she admits the man's identity: Stefano, Corbucci's violent servant, who is giving Faustina jewels, which she needs to support her family.

Corbucci reveals that they had found out about Faustina's meetings with Raffles and that Stefano had attacked her by surprise before she could fire the gun.

Raffles flees the vineyard by boat to Genoa, where he sleeps in the streets, and steals and begs to survive.

Raffles concludes the narrative by telling Bunny that Corbucci's crime syndicate, the Camorra, may be after him.