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A romance story set in Germany, including a duel. Written by New York City amateur journalist Richard Gerner (1855 or 1856-1885); published by thirteen-year-old Glenn Merkle Farley (1863-1926), a Dubuque, Iowa, amateur printer who later became a newspaper publisher in Madison, South Dakota, and then an editorial writer in Seattle, Washington.