Certainly the weather was not comfortable or favourable to stay outdoors, because it was drizzling and the uncertain pults of wind runted into a steady blow. The few pedestrians astir in the quarters hurried dismally along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. At that moment the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.

He waited almost twenty minutes smoking cigar to keep the appointment with almost surety and then a tall man in a long overcoat with collar turned up to his ears hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man and called him Bob who also called the other Jimmy.