After 20 Years

0:00 How has the West treated you, old man?

0:02 Bully, it has given me everything I asked it for.

0:05 You've changed lots, Jimmy.

0:07 I never thought you were so tall by two or three inches.

0:10 Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty.

0:13 Doing well in New York, Jimmy?

0:15 Moderately.

0:16 I have a position in one of the city departments.

0:19 Come on, Bob, we'll go around to a place I know of

0:22 and have a good long talk about old times.

0:25 The two men started up the street, arm in arm.

0:29 The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by success,

0:32 was beginning to outline the history of his career.

0:36 The other, submerged in his overcoat, listened with interest.

0:40 At the corner stood a drugstore, brilliant with electric lights.

0:44 When they came into this glare,

0:46 each of them turned simultaneously to gaze upon the other's face.

0:51 The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm.

0:54 You're not Jimmy Wells, he snapped.