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Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781331309635

Excerpt from Born of the Crucible While still in his third year at Stanford University, Dan Bradshaw, quite inadvertently, had stumbled upon a piece of rather startling information - facts that were not only startling, but disconcerting and disturbing. Always had he lived with his Aunt Ruth and his Uncle Sim in a beautiful little California village. They had brought him up from childhood; they had clothed him and taken care of him; when he had been old enough, they had sent him to school; and later, by the utmost economy, they had saved enough to send him to college. And then suddenly, Dan had learned that these good people were not related to him at all. Merely, out of the kindness of their hearts, they had taken him in, when he had been left an orphan. Dan's mother had died not long after she had heard the hearty wail of her first-born. His father had met with an unfortunate accident, but a few weeks before. Of course, Dan had reasoned, as soon as he had learned the true status of his 'uncle' and 'aunt', it was impossible for him to continue taking more from them. True, he could never begin to repay them in money for all their great care and wonderful kindness, but at least he could cease being a burden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.