Ginter's Pope Quotes

“Is it true that you have this banker’s calling card to mark your place when you stop?”
John Pope nodded.
“Where did you get it from?” his mother demanded.
John swallowed hard, met her stare with a wounded look, and said, “I slipped it into my pocket during one of my deliveries to his office. I was going to ask him for a job, or at least a reference for a clerical position in Manhattan.”
“That sounds like a fish story to me, but apparently he saw something in you that brought him all the way to our doorstep,” his father said flatly.”
― John Musgrove, Ginter's Pope