This story is about two friends. As young adults they decide to part ways to make their own fortunes. Jimmy Wells, the plodder, becomes a policeman in New York. But Bob competes with the sharpest wits and makes his fortune. He becomes rich. As per their agreement, Bob has travelled thousand miles to meet his boyhood chum Jimmy Wells after a passage of twenty years at 10 p.m. Their proposed meeting point Big Joe ‘Brady’s restaurant is gone. The policeman on beat, tells him that it was pulled down five years ago.
Jimmy Wells also remembers the appointment. In the dark, when Bob lights a cigarette, Jimmy Wells notices the features of a criminal wanted by Chicago police. His diamond-studded watch, the large diamond scarf pin, show how rich he has become. The policeman leaves after assuring that Bob would wait at least for another half an hour. Then a man in an overcoat comes calling out his name. Bob boasts of his success in the west and how he amassed wealth. Once they go out of the dark lane, the lights from a drug store helps them see each other.
Bob releases himself saying that he is not Jimmy Wells. Twenty years can’t change a Roman nose into a pug. The plainclothes man tells him he has been under arrest for the past ten minutes. From a note handed to him, he realizes that the patrolman is only Jimmy Weils who has sent another policeman to arrest him.
