Yesterday a.m. I seen Sargent Avery and I asked him if I could talk to him a minute and he says yes and I said I wanted to find out from him who stole that valentine from Miss Moselle. So he says âWho is Miss Moselle?â So I said âWhy that little lady in the canteen thatâs blowed to Paris.â So he says âWell that little ladyâs name isnât Miss Moselle but her name is Ruth Palmer and she is the daughter of one of the richest birds in N.Y. city and they wasnât nobody stole no valentine from her because she give the valentine to me before she left.â So I said âWhat do you mean she give it to you?â So he says âI mean she give it to me and when she give it to me she said us birds was in the same Co. with a poet and didnât know it and she thought it was about time we was finding it out. So she laughed and give me the valentine and thatâs the whole story.â
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