The Midnight visitor

 Q) Briefly describe how Ausable defeat Max's scheme to take away the report.

= Ausable was a secret agent who stayed in  a  French   hotel. On  the  other  hand Max  also  was  a   gypsy   who   entered Ausable's     room     without    Ausable's knowledge   to    have    the     important document     concerning     some      new missiles. Max entered his room with the help of  a  passkey. As   soon as   Ausable meets   Max   he  began  to  give  a   long lecture about   the   balcony. He tried  to make  Max   believe   that   there   was a balcony     behind     the     window.   But actually   there   was   not   any   balcony behind the window  against  which   the night   was   pressing   quickly.  Ausable took out  the  matter  about the window in  their conversation  again  and  again. At last  Max  began to take it true. When the  door  was knocked   at  by  a  waiter, Ausable told  him  that there  might be a police. Max believed it and went to the window to  hide himself  in the  balcony. But his  feet never  reached the  balcony.

                   Thus, Ausable defeated Max's scheme to take away the report.

Q) Who is Fowler? Give a description of his meeting with Ausable.

= Fowler is a young and romantic writer who came to Ausable for an appointment.

                 Ausable was a secret agent who lived in a small room on the sixth floor of a gloomy French hotel. When Fowler met Ausable, he did not find him fit for the description of a secret agent he had ever read about it. While following him to his room, Ausable told him about the important paper fow which several men and women have risked their lives. Fowler expected to encounter a romantic adventure in Ausable's room. But he did not get anything there dealing in espionage and danger. As soon as he entered Ausable's room, he had his first authentic thrill of the day where half way across the room a man was standing with a gun in his hand pointing towards them.

Q) Who was Ausable? Where did he live?

Q) Who was Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?

= Fowler was a young writer who came to Ausable for an interview.

               His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable's room pointing a pistol towards  Ausable and himself.

Q) Who was Ausable ? To which country did he belong ? Why did Ausable think that Fowler would be disappointed to meet him ?

= Ausable was a secret agent dealing in espionage . He stayed in a French hotel. He had an important paper with him for which several men and women had risked their lives.

    Originally, he belonged to America. He was brought to Itally twenty five years ago.

            Fowler was a young and romantic writer. He came to meet Ausable because he needed a description about a secret agent. Though, Ausable was a secret agent, he did not seemed to be a secret agent. He was very fat and looked very simple. He instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties and getting prosaic telephone call making an appointment in his room, lives in a small room of a French hotel. Ausable thought that Fowler would be disappointed to meet him because he would not happen to see the environment of espionage.

Q) How is Ausable different from other secret agents ?

= Ausable was totally different from other secret agent. He did not fit any description of a secret agent. He did not seemed to be a secret agent. He was very fat and simple. Like the other secret agent he did not live with the dark-eyed beauties and had drugs in the wine. He lived in a small room of a French hotel by himself. In this way he is different from a secret agent.