The Midnight Visitor

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Ausable is a secret agent who doesn't fit the typical description. He is fat, has an American accent despite living in Paris for 20 years, and appears ordinary and unromantic - completely opposite to …

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Fowler is a young, romantic writer who visits Ausable expecting to experience the exciting world of espionage. He is disappointed initially as Ausable seems ordinary and their evening together is bori…

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Fowler's first authentic thrill is when they enter Ausable's room and find Max, a rival spy, standing there with a gun pointed at them.

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Max is a slender spy with fox-like features who wants to steal an important report about new missiles that is being delivered to Ausable. He threatens them with a gun.

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The report concerns new missiles and is so important that several people have risked their lives for it. Ausable mentions it may affect the course of history.

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Ausable cleverly creates a fictional balcony story. He claims Max entered through a balcony that extends under his window from the next room, complaining this is the second time in a month someone use…

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Max actually entered using a passkey. He tells Ausable he didn't know about the balcony and that it might have saved him trouble if he had known about it.

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Ausable explains that his room was part of a larger unit, the next room was the living room with a balcony that now extends under his window. People can access it from an empty room two doors down. He…