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Part One

I

Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't
be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR
MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP
SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it
could have been yesterday.

The Home for Aged Persons is at Marengo,
some fifty miles from Algiers. With the two-
o'clock bus I should get there well before night-
fall. Then I can spend the night there, keeping the
usual vigil beside the body, and be back here by
tomorrow evening. I have fixed up with my em-
ployer for two days' leave; obviously, under the
circumstances, he couldn't refuse. Still, I had an
idea he looked annoyed, and I said, without think-
ing: "Sorry, sir, but it's not my fault, you know."

Afterwards it struck me I needn't have said that.
I had no reason to excuse myself; it was up to him
to express his sympathy and so forth. Probably he

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Stranger. Contributors: Albert Camus - author, Stuart Gilbert - transltr. Publisher: Vintage Books. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 1.
    
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