After 20 years
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- A POLICEMAN WALKED ACROSS THE AVENUE IMPRESSIVELY.IT WAS BARELY 10 BUT ALMOST NO ONE WAS OUTSIDE. THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH A BIT OF RAIN HAD KEPT PEOPLE INSIDE. WHEN HE WAS MIDWAY OF A BLOCK HE SAW A MAN LENT ON A WALL WITH AN UNLIGHTED CIGAR. HE HAD A BEARD WITH A WHITE SCAR ACROSS HIS EYE . HE APPROACHED THE MAN , THE MAN SPOKE QUICKLY
- IT IS OKAY OFFICER I AM JUST WAITING FOR A FRIEND AN APPOINMENT MADE 20 YEARS AGO. I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU STRAIGHT
- UNTIL IT TORE DOWN 5 YEARS AGO
- THERE USED TO BE A RESTRAUNT NAMED' BIG JOE' O'BRADY. WE HAD DINED HERE
- THE MAN STRUCK A MATCH AND LIT HIS CIGAR. THE LIGHT SHOWED HIS FACE WHICH WAS HIDDEN IN THE DARK
- TWENTY YEARS AGO TONIGHT I HAD DINED HERE WITH MY BEST CHUM AND THE FINEST CHAP IN THE WORLD JIMMY WELLS. HE AND I WERE RAISED IN NEWYORK LIKE BROTHERS. IWAS 18 AND JIMMYY WAS 20. THE NEXT DAY MORNING I STARTED TO THE WEST TO MAKE MY FORTUNE YOU CUOLDNOT HAVE DRAGDED JIMMY OUT OF THERE HE THOUHT THERE WAS NO OTHER PLACE IN THE WORLD.WE AGREED THAT NIGHT THAT WE WOULD MEET EACH OTHER HERE AFTER 20N YEARS WE FIGURED WE WOULD HAVE MADE OUR FORTUNES UNTIL THEN.
- SOUNDS PRETTY INTERESTING . RATHER A LONG TIME BETWEEN MEETS. HAVENT YO HEARD FROM YOUR FRIEND SINCE THEN??
- WELL YES FOR A TIME WE CORRESPONDED. BUT AFTER A YEAR OR 2 WE LOST TRACK OF EACH OTHER. THE WEST IS A PRETTY BIG PLACE AND I KEPT HUSTING AROUND IT LIVELY.BUT I KNOW JIMMY WILL MEET ME HERE IF HE IS LIVE,FOR HE ALWAYS WA THE STAUNCHEST OLD CHAP IN THE WORLD. I CAME A 1000MILES AND ITS WORTH IF MY OLD PARTNER TURNS UP.THREE MINUTES TO 10 ,IT WAS EXACTLY 10 WHEN WE PARTED AT THIS DOOR.
- DID PRETTY GOOD OUT WEST DID'NT YOU?
- I WILL BE ON MY WAY HOPE YOUR FRIEND TURNS OUT ALLRIGHT
- I WILL GIVE HIM 30 MINS ATLEAST . IF HE IS ALIVE HE WILL BE THERE BY THAT TIME
- YOU BET I HOPE JIMMY HAS DONE HALF AS WELL. HE WAS AKIND OF PLODDER,THOUGH,GOOD FELLOW HE WAS. IHAVE HAD TO COMPETE WITH SOME OF THE SMARTEST WITS GOING TO GET MY PILE
- AT THE CORNER STOOD A DRUG STORE BRILLIANT WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS. THEN SUDDENLY THE MAN FROM WEST STOPPED AND SAID
- IS THAT YOU JIMMY WELLS?? SURE."YOU ARE NOT JIMMY WELLS 20 YEARS IS ALONG TIME BUT NOT ENOUGH TO CHANGE A MANS NOSE FROM ROMAN TO PUG
- I WAS AT THE APPOINTED PLACE ON TIME BUT WHEN YOU LIGHTED YOUR CIGAR I SAW IT WAS THE WANTED MAN IN CHICAGO. SOMEHOW I COULD NOT DO IT MY SELF SO I GOT A PLAIN CLOTHES MAN TO DO THE JOB-JIMMY
- IST HAT YOU BOB? BLESS MY HEART IT IS BOB SURE AS FATE. WELL-WELL 20 YEARS IS A LONG TIME IWISH IT HAD LASTED WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER DINNER OVER THERE. LET US GO TO APLACE I KNOW AND HAVE A GOOD LONG TALK ABOUT OLD TIMES. NO BUT IS ENOUGH TIME TO CHANGE A GOODM MAN INTO A BAD ONE YOU HAVE BEEN UNDER ARREST FOR THE PAST 10 MINUTES 'SILKY BOB'. BEFORE WE TAKE YOU TO THE STATIONHERE IS ANOTE FOR YOU FROM PATROLLMAN WELLS
- AFTER 20 MINUTES A MAN APPROCHED . THE 2 MEN STARTED UP THE STREET ARM IN ARM
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