CHAPTER XIV

HOW ALARIC CAME HOME Cambridge has changed extraordinarily little since 1950. Of course, the revolutionaries wrecked all the churches in the town, and left not one stone of the college chapels standing. They blew up some of the fine houses in Grange Road as being the homes of the capitalists, and destroyed half the region beyond Mill Road Bridge as unfit for human habitation. After the Great Pestilence and the consequent decrease of the population, little rebuilding was needed. The gardens of the big houses were ta…