Miss Jeanine van Genkel, Amsterdam beauty-specialist, asked it with flowers.
Miss Jeanine van Genkel, Amsterdam beauty-specialist, asked it with flowers. When Montgomery arrived at the Amstelhotel in Amsterdam, she rushed up to him with a nosegay of red roses. The letter that surprised Monty found, did not express the girl's admiration for him, but her love for one of his soldiers, private Elmer Simms form Kirklaken, Canada. This is what the Fieldmarshall read: 'Dear Fieldmarshall, I am in love with a Canadian. We want to marry. it was not possible, because he had to leave me and returned to Canada. He is unhappy and so am I. You are such a great man, and I am sure you can do something for me if you will. Please, will you make two people happy again, and help me to go to Canada.' Monty yielded when he smelled the delicious beefsteak in the dining-room of Amsterdam's smartest hotel: he forgot that he was a vegetarian. Will he give in to the charming prayer of this Dutch girl?
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