After Twenty Years
Author: O. Henry
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Languages: English, RU, Italian
Genre: Mystery, Satire, Short story
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On a rainy Manhattan night, a man stands in a doorway waiting for the childhood friend he promised to meet exactly twenty years ago.
Characters
- Bob — man from the West: A man who left New York for the West at eighteen and returns twenty years later to keep a long-standing promise.
- Jimmy Wells — patrolman: Bob's best friend from childhood who stayed in New York and became a police officer.