The Prodigal Returns

by Lilian Staveley

THE PRODIGAL RETURNS

By

Lilian Staveley

London
John M. Watkins
21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, W.C. 2
1921

CONTENTS

	[Part I.]	7
	[Part II.]	63
	[Part III.]	81
	[Part IV.]	102
	[Part V.]	151

PART I

Sunshine and a garden path . . . flowers . . . the face and neck and bosom of the nurse upon whose heart I lay, and her voice telling me that she must leave me, that we must part, and immediately after anguish—blotting out the sunshine, the flowers, the face, the voice. This is my first recollection of Life—the pain of love. I was two years old.

Nothing more for two years—and then the picture of a pond and my baby brother floating on it, whilst with agonised hands I seized his small white coat and held him fast.