Youth Challenges

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Youth Challenges by Clarence B. Kelland

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1920

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Against a realistic picture of great industry, Mr. Kelland projects a dramatic story of youth's revolt: of Bonbright Foote, VII, heir to millions, who sacrifices everything to love, only to be thrust from his new paradise, and forced to win back by as strange a road as a rich man ever trod.

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s, studying his career as it lay circumscribed before him. He did not study it rebelliously, for as yet rebellion had not occurred to him. The idea that he might assert his individuality and depart from the family pattern had not ventured to show its face. For too many years had his ancestors been impressing him with his duty to the family traditions. He merely studied it, as one who has no fancy for geometry will study geometry, because it cannot be helped. The path was there, carefully staked out and bordered; to-day his feet had been placed on it, and now he must walk. As he sat he looked ahead for bypaths--none were visible.

The shutting-down whistle aroused him. He walked out through the rapidly emptying office to the street, and there he stood, interested by the spectacle of the army that poured out of the employees' entrances. It was an inundation of men, flooding street from sidewalk to sidewalk. It jostled and joked and scuffled, sweating, grimy, each unit of it eager to board waiting, overcrowded