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...after 22 months of false leads and dashed hopes, it was as simple and dramatic as this: Bipin Shah, 59, got a call from one of his private eyes in Europe. Sarah Lynn, 9, and Genevieve ("Vivi") Marie, 7, had been found living in Lucerne, Switzerland, with their mother, Ellen Dever, 43, under assumed names...
...next day, Shah took his daughters home and put them under the care of psychologists. The girls were "very angry. It took a little while, but they calmed down," Shah says. "They have mixed feelings because their mother is not here...
...Shah says he phoned his ex-wife's father and asked, "Would you please call Ellen and tell her not to panic? I know how she feels because I know how I felt when it happened to me." Dever, according to her Swiss attorney, Joerg Blum, "is O.K., but of course very upset and anxious...
Although Dever had not returned to her Lucerne apartment for fear of arrest on U.S. child-concealment charges, Shah said, he has been in touch with her by phone and has put the girls on to talk with their mother. He said he has told Dever that "we'll work it out. We are going to put our egos aside and do what's right for the girls...
...Shah and Dever, subjects of a TIME cover story last May, had met in 1981 at Philadelphia Bank where both worked, he as a star developer of automated-teller systems. After they married, Shah started his own company, which he and his partners later sold for $200 million. The couple became socially prominent in Philadelphia's old-money Main Line suburbs...