Noshir Siganporia was called to Meherazad — first with Padri on 15 December, and then again with Adi on the 20th. Dr. Daulat Singh, a staunch lover of Baba, died of meningitis at Victoria Hospital in Jabalpur, at 2:30 P.M. on 22 December.
Baba sent this telegram to his family: "Such a brave and loving soul as Dr. Daulat Singh cannot but come to me, his only Beloved."
Baba's work in seclusion was to end on Thursday, 24 December 1959, and that day was also celebrated as Mehera's birthday. The Ahmednagar bhajan group was called to Meherazad, where they performed a program of devotional music. Baba also washed the feet of 24 lepers, and after putting his head on their feet, gave each a sheet and a blanket. He served them tea and rawa (a sweet) with his own hands. Thus, the God-Man completed his work on his beloved Mehera's birthday.
Dr. Deshmukh arrived from Nagpur and made some recordings on his tape recorder.
Alain Youell, 21, was an English university student who lived with Don Stevens in The Hague (in the Netherlands). Stevens wrote to Baba about coming to India for his annual Christmas vacation and asked if he could bring Alain along. Baba agreed and fixed their arrival for mid-December. But, subsequently, they were delayed several days by Stevens' oil business meetings in Paris. After a harrowing journey, involving a torrential rainstorm in Rome, detainment in Karachi and delayed planes, they arrived in Bombay on 26 December 1959. They were driven to Meherazad on the 27th, along with Meherjee.
Baba was quite irritated by their late arrival and stated, "Don, if you had been just one more day late, I would have canceled your entire visit."
Alain had not been at all interested in Baba. His sole purpose in accompanying Stevens had been "to save Don from a fate worse than death." He was coming to "check out this strange thing Don had gotten into," as he was convinced Meher Baba was not all Don believed him to be. When they arrived at Meherazad, Alain surveyed the lonely countryside and concluded that no one would want to live there in the middle of nowhere.
They walked over to the hall, and as they went through the door, Baba came in through the opposite end. When Alain saw Baba, he sat on the ground and burst into tears. Baba went to him and gave him an embrace. Alain later described how he felt: