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"It is a singular thing that on the same day I entered this jail I received a telegram from my father's agent advising me that he would not be able to open his new play, A Stranger in the House. What a ghastly coincidence it is that the play should have such a name. I am the stranger in my father's house, but he never cast me out, despite long years of my social disgrace. God bless his soul!
"Father had not written me in years. But he never lost interest in me, for his remittances reached me every month. He told me once he felt like turning on the gas for being responsible for my coming into the world. Because of the remorse I had brought him, I decided to kill myself. I tried, but surgeons saved me."
Died. Gustave Geffroy, 71, President of the Goncourt Academy; in Paris. (See FRANCE, "Clemenceau Speaks.")
Died. McEvers Bayard Brown, 76, eccentric U.S. sea-hermit; on board his yacht, Valfreya, off the Essex coast; after a stroke of paralysis (see p. 28).
Died. Luther Burbank, 77, first horticulturalist, at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., after several weeks' illness.
Died. Dr. F. W. Axham, 85, medical "outlaw" and cause of bitter controversy among physicians; in London of bronchitis (see p. 24).