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Bob and I became brother-like friends in our childhood
We played, dined and discussed our ambitions together
Once grown up, he started for the West to make his fortune while I became a policeman in New York
Before his departure, we had dinner together and we agreed that we would meet at the same place exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come
Then came the day we were supposed to meet
I was on my beat then
Walking up to the appointed place which had been turned into a hardware store, I saw a man standing there with an unlighted cigar in his mouth
Before I could speak, he told me that he was waiting for a friend by the name of Jimmy Wells
When he struck a match to light his cigar, I saw a