Read the extract and answer the following: The policeman on the beat moved up the…As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly. – Why were the streets ‘de-peopled’? – What are some of the things that the policeman did while walking down the street? – Why were the doors of the business places closed? – Who do you think the man with the unlighted cigar was? Please provide your answer below
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Answer:The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was constant and not for show, for people who were watching were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well near depeopled the streets.
Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many detailed and cleverly tricky/artistic movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the calm road, the officer, with his strong and loyal form and small/short proud style/proud walking, made a fine picture of a (person who protects another from harm) of the peace. The area was one that kept early hours. Now and then you might see the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter; but most of the doors belonged to business places that had long since been closed.
When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with a dark cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly.
"It's all right, officer," he said, (in a way that makes you feel better). "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn't it? Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make certain it's all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands--'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant."
"Until five years ago," said the policeman. "It was torn down then."
The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with well-developed eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond, weirdly set.
"Twenty years ago to-night," said the man, "I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best friend/fish food, and the finest chap in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Ji
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