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The Island of Fantasy

A Romance

By FERGUS HUME

Author of “When I Lived In Bohemia,” “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,” “The Man Who Vanished,” etc.

Sorrow and weariness,

Heartache and dreariness,

None should endure;

Scale ye the mountain peak,

Vale ’o the fountain seek,

There is the cure.

R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

9 and 11 East Sixteenth Street, New York

1905

Copyright, 1892,

BY

UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY

[All rights reserved]

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