Grade 8 Reading Lesson 25 Short Stories – After Twenty Years
It is dark. Drops of rain are falling to the earth. The wind is howling in the cold, making the night colder. People are hastily rushing towards their homes. Everyone, except Bob. Bob is waiting for his friend, Jimmy Wills outside a shop. They had decided this meeting twenty years ago, before they parted their ways to make fortune.
Does Jimmy remember his promise? Does he come to meet Bob? This is what this O. Henry story is all about.
