The Sins of the Children: A Novel

THE SINS OF THE CHILDREN
A NOVEL BY COSMO HAMILTON WITH FRONTISPIECE BY GEORGE O. BAKER
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916 , By Cosmo Hamilton.
All rights reserved Published, October, 1916
THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.
To MY WIFE
CONTENTS
PART ONE
When Peter Guthrie laughed the rooks stirred on the old trees behind the Bodleian and the bored cab-drivers who lolled in uncomfortable attitudes on their cabs in St. Giles perked up their heads.
He threw open his door one morning and leaving one of these laughs of his rolling round the quad of St. John's College found the recumbent form of Nicholas Kenyon all among his cushions as usual, and as usual smoking his cigarettes and reading his magazines. The words as usual seemed to be stamped on his forehead.
What d'you think? cried Peter, filling the room like a thirty-mile gale.