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- The policeman moved up the beat impressively. The time was barely 10 at night and gusts of wind had de-peopled the streets.
- As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly. "its all right officer" he said reassuringly
- Until five years ago. It was torn down then."
- It's all right, officer, "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn't it? Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make certain it's all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands--'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant
- The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, its lids set with small diamonds.
- It sounds pretty interesting," said the policeman. "Rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?
- Twenty years ago to-night, Idined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.
- When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk.in the doorway of a darkened hardware a man leaned.
- About twenty minutes he waited and then a tall man in a long overcoat with the collar turned up to his hurried across form the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.
- Bob! is that you?!!. Its fate bob I'm sure of it!...Shame, The restaurants closed now. How's the west treated you?
- The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale square jawed face with keen eyes, a little white scar. He wore a large oddly set diamond pin in his scarf.
- At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights. When they came into the glare of them they turned simultaneously to gaze upon each others faces.
- You're not Jimmy wells!. Twenty years is a long time but not long enough to change a mans nose from a romans to pugs!
- The policeman went on his way trying doors as he went. And in the doorway of a darkened hardware shop a man who came a thousand miles to visit his friend; waited.
- The man from the west unfolded the little piece of paper handed to him.
- The two men started up the street arm in arm, the man from the west started outlining his success story while the man in the overcoat listened intently.
- Well its given me everything I've wished for. You've changed lots jimmy!.You've grown so tall!
- "Now before we go on to the station here's a not i was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. Its from patrolman wells""The mysterious man continued.
- But it sure can change a good man to a bad man … You've been under arrest for ten minutes 'Silky Bob' Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wires us she wants to a have chat with you. Going quietly are you? That's sensible.
- His hand was steady as he began to unfold but as he began to read it trembled little by the time he finished.
- Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar, I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn't do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothed man to do the job,- Jimmy
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