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John Dene of Toronto

Herbert George Jenkins

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .John Dene impatiently, "I don't want references."

"But," replied Sir Lyster, "this is work of a confidential nature.".

"See here," cried John Dene. "I started life selling newspapers in T'ronto. I never had a reference, I never gave a reference and I never asked a reference, and the man who can get ahead of John Dene had better stay up all night for fear of missing the buzzer in the morning. That girl's straight, else she wouldn't be asked to do my letters," he added. "Now, don't you wait," he said to Dorothy, seeing she was embarrassed at his remark; "nine o'clock to-morrow morning."

"I think it will be necessary to take up references," began Sir Lyster as John Dene closed the door on Dorothy.

John Dene span round on his heel. "I run my business on Canadian lines, not on British," he cried. "If you're always going to be around telling me what to do, then I'll see this country to hell before they get my Destroyer. . . . Read More

Community Reviews

A hundred years later, this book offers a fascinating mix of strikingly modern and oddly old-fashioned aspects. On the one hand, John Dene could easily be a character in a book written today, based on the way he talks and acts. He was easily my favorite part of the entire story and I would happily r

Interesting and enjoyable read,one of the first I read on Kindle (couldn,t see option here) plot a bit obvious but colourful and likeable characters an insight in to the social culture of 1917.