Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor

Ausable was different from other secret agents in variable ways than one and did not fit in the description of a normal agent. He had a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel on the sixth top floor and there was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was very fatty and had a very different accent. Though he spoke French and german passably (good but not so good enough) but he never lost his American accent in spite of living in paris for over twenty years. Instead of getting messages slipped into his hands by dark-eyed beauties, he got only a telephone call for making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional of a spy.

Fowler was a writer and had come to meet Ausable. His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable’s room who was pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.

Max was thin or slender, a little less than tall and had features that indicated crafty and pointed face expressions of a fox. He had got into the room with a passkey or a master day.

Ausable said that he thought max had got into the room through the balcony which is attached to his room. He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room in this way.

Secret agents in this fiction are represented as ideal men, tall dark and handsome. They are typically well built and have beautiful women in accompany them. They usually smoke pipe or cigar and do dangerous breath taking difficult stunts. James bond is a very famous and special character by lan fleming. The movies that based on james bond show hi-tech gizmos which help the detective in encountering the villains. There is an character named fleuda which was created by satyajit ray, the famous bangla filmmaker. He was typical bhadralok by appearance.

 Ausable tells max that someone entered his room through the balcony which is attached to his room before also. When there was someone knocking at his door, he said that it was police to give him protection as he had some important papers with him. With someone knocking the door repeatedly max became nervous and wanted to escape from police. Max said that he would wait in the balcony and asked Ausable to send police away or he would shoot and take his chances. As a result, he jumped out of the window and fell down without noticing. Ausable’s ability is to think quickly and clamly in the situation of panic that makes it convincing.

No, I don’t think that he had worked out his plan in so much detail. He took advantages of the event as they happened. Ausable made a story of the balcony which is attached outside the room. As there was a knock at the door, he told it would be police, all these events threatened max. In such a hurry, he became restless and without seeing anything jumped out of the window.