Herbert Jenkins

Name: Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders
Author: Herbert Jenkins

Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

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“Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders”, published in 1921, is a work by Herbert Jenkins. It explores elements such as John Dene, Malcolm Sage and Dorothy.

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ Now have you made up your mind?"
"Made it up to what?" he asked, lighting a cigar.
"That you're going to set him up as a private detective," she said coolly. "I don't want him to come here and not find everything planned out."
"He won't do that," said Sir John Dene with conviction. "He's no lap-dog."
"I wrote and asked him to call at ten to-day," she said coolly.
"Snakes, you did!" he cried, sitting up in his chair.
"Alligators, I did!" she mocked.
"You're sure some wife;" he looked at her admiringly.
"I sure am," she laughed lightly, "but I'm only just beginning, John dear. ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ Sage got the wind up, and tried to find out all about it, and in Whitehall such things weren't done."
"They tried to put it up on me," grumbled Sir John Dene, twirling his cigar with his lips, "but I soon stopped their funny work."
"Everybody was too busy winning the war to bother about trifles," Dorothy continued. "The poor dears who looked after such things found life quite difficult enough, with only two hours for lunch and pretty secretaries to be——"
"Dorothy!" cried Mrs. West reproachfully.
"Well, it's true, mother," she protested.
It was true, as Malcolm Sage had discovered. ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ And Sir John Dene smiled.
II "In the States they've got Pinkerton's," said Sir John Dene, twirling with astonishing rapidity an unlit cigar between his lips. "If you've lost anything, from a stick-pin to a mountain, you just blow in there, tell them all about it, and go away and don't worry. Here you've got nothing."
"We have Scotland Yard," remarked Malcolm Sage quietly, without looking up from the contemplation of his hands, which, with fingers wide apart, rested upon the table before him. ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ West.
"When you don't like anyone in Whitehall," Dorothy continued, "you don't give him the push, mother dear, you just transfer him to another department."
"Like circulating bad money," grumbled Sir John Dene.
"It sure was, John," she agreed. "Poor Mr. Sage soon became the most transferred man in Whitehall. They used to say, 'Uneasy lies the head that has a Sage.'" She laughed at the recollection. ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ A battle royal was fought over the body of Arthur Tims, Malcolm Sage's chauffeur. Sir John Dene had insisted that a car and a chauffeur were indispensable to a man who was to rival Pinkerton's. Malcolm Sage, on the other hand, had protested that it was an unnecessary expense in the early days of a concern that had yet to justify itself. To this Sir John Dene had replied, "Shucks!" ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ West gently, referring to the time when Sir John Dene had disappeared and a reward of 20,000 pounds had been offered for news of him.
"Sure!" Sir John Dene acquiesced. "He's a white man, clean to the bone."
"It was very wonderful that an accountant should become such a clever detective," said Mrs. West. "It shows——" she paused.
"You see, he wasn't a success as an accountant," said Dorothy. "He was always finding out little wangles that he wasn't supposed to see. So when they wouldn't have him in the army, he went to the Ministry of Supply and found out a great, big wangle, and Mr. ”

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Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective — I Sir John Dene Receives His Orders (1921)

“ He smiled, that sudden, sunny smile she had learned to look for and love.
"Then again I like him because he's always courteous and kind. At Department Z they'd have had their appendixes out if Mr. Sage wanted them. ”

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