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【每日英语故事10月20日】——二十年之后(3)

  The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch, the lids of it set with small diamonds.

  "Three minutes to ten," he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door."

  "Did pretty well out West, didn't you?" asked the policeman.

  "You bet! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was. I've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the West to put a razor-edge on him."

  The policeman twirled his club and took a step or two.

  "I'll be on my way. Hope your friend comes around all right. Going to call time on him sharp?"

  "I should say not!" said the other. "I'll give him half an hour at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll be here by that time. So long, officer."

  "Good-night, sir," said the policeman, passing on along his beat, trying doors as he went.

  There was now a fine, cold drizzle falling, and the wind had risen from its uncertain puffs into a steady blow. The few foot passengers astir in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.

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