The short story "After Twenty Years" is set in New York on a cold, dark night. Everything (be) very quiet. A police officer on duty found a man with a scar on his face outside ‘Big Joe' Brady's, and they started to have chat. The man was waiting for his best chum and the (fine) chap, Jimmy Wells. One night twenty years ago, they dined at ‘Big Joe' Brady's. They grew up together in New York and got very well. (make) his fortune, he was to start for the West while Jimmy Wells stayed in New York. was on that night that they agreed to meet there again, no matter their conditions might be or from what distance they might have to come. At first, they kept up a (correspond) for a year or two, and then they lost track of each other. However, he (believe) Jimmy Wells would turn up as promised, and he would be waiting for (he) there.
