Read the following passages and answer the questions given below?
“It sounds pretty interesting, ” said the policeman. “Rather a long time between meets, though, ’it seems to me. Haven’t you heard from your friend since you left?”
“Well, yes, for a time we corresponded, ” said the other. “But after a year or two we lost track of each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept hustling around over it 1 pretty lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he’s alive, for he always was the truest,
staunchest old chap in the world. He’ll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up.”
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.”
(a) Why did he appear a long time between the meeting of friends?
(b) How did the stranger justify the long gap between their meeting?
(c) What was the stranger very optimistic about?
(d) Why did the stranger believe that Jimmy Wells would honour the appointment made twenty years ago?
(e) How did the patrol man figure out that the stranger was stinkingly rich?
