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Show CA STRUGGLE To Dispose of His Story Containing His Confession New York, Dec. 1 Dr. Frederick: A. Cook, who now confesses that ho does not know whether lie reached the North fvle or not, had no easy task in disposing of what ho do-scribes do-scribes as ' The Story of Cook'e Trip to the Noith Polo," according to report re-port reaching Now York from London. Lon-don. The rirooklyn explorer, it H staU-d, is living in seclusion' in an nbscure boarding house In Blooms, bury,, a London suburb, and there wrote the story which he hopes will restore him to a degree of favor in this country. It appears that for weeks Dr. Cook, eager to return to his home in Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, sought a literary bureau to 6ell his latest story to Ixmdon magazlno publishers. Ono thousand dollars, Jt was said, was asked for th story, which the London editors declined to accept. It was learned today that Dr. Conft was In the United Statos early In November and came here to conclude the arrangements with a magazine for the publication of his story. He came by way of Canada and met the publishers at ly-roy, N. Y. After concluding con-cluding tho arrangements for tli pub-llshing pub-llshing of his confession. Dr. Cook returned re-turned lo Europe |