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nearly heart-hroken parent from a member of 
the band whose queen the abducted daughter 
was to be. Confident that his lost child was 
somewhere in the great New World, the Count 
disposed of his vast estates, and accompanied 
by faithful Petro, he sailed from his native land 
for New York. Arriving in the great metropo- 
lis of the western world, the Count secured the 
skilled services of noted detectives and prose- 
cuted an earnest search for his loved lost-one 
in the great city. After weeks of fruitless effort, 
disheartened and almost distracted with grief 
and anxiety, he sought out the quiet isolated 
isle in the Delaware river, and there in the 
privacy of a hermit’s life he has ceased not to 
labor and pray and wait for the return of his 
lost darling. After securing his island home, 
the Count furnished it to suit his humble 
tastes and depending on faithful Petro to man- 
age the estate, he devoted his time to a studious 
observation and investigation of Nature’s mys- 
teries. 
