The Introductory scene of AFTER TWENTY YEARS.MA
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- It's all right, officer! I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made twenty years ago. Sound 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.
- Until five years ago it was torn down.
- Twenty years ago tonight, I dined 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 out to make my fortune out in the West. Jimmy was not willing to leave, he thought New York was the only place on Earth. We agreed that night that exactly twenty years in the future we would meet here.
- Sounds pretty interesting, rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?
- Well, yes, for a time we corresponded, but after a year or two we lost track of each other.... three minutes to ten, it was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door.
- Did pretty well out West, didn't you?
- You bet! I hope Jimmy is doing well. He was kind of a plodder, though. good fellow as he was. I've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits to make my pile. A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor - edge on him.
- I should say not! I'll give him half an hour at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll be here by the time. So long officer!
- I'll be on my way now Hope your friend comes around all right. Going to call time on him sharp?
- Good night, sir
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