12. i)How did Ausable manage to make Max believe that there was a balcony attached to his room? 5 ii) When do you think Ausable thought of a plan to get rid off Max? Do you think Ausable had worked out his plan in detail from the beginning or did he make up his plan by taking advantage of the events as they happened? 5
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AUSABLE did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever
read. Following him down the musty corridor of the gloomy French
hotel where Ausable had a room, Fowler felt let down. It was a
small room, on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a setting for a
romantic adventure.
Ausable was, for one thing, fat. Very fat. And then there was his
accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never
altogether lost the American accent he had brought to Paris from Boston
twenty years ago.
“You are disappointed,” Ausable said wheezily over his shoulder.
“You were told that I was a secret agent, a spy, dealing in espionage
and danger. You wished to meet me because you are a writer, young
and romantic. You envisioned mysterious figures in the night, the crack
of pistols, drugs in the wine.”
“Instead, you have spent a dull evening in a French music hall
with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into
his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only a prosaic telephone call
making an appointment in his room. You have been bored!” The fat
man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and
stood aside to let his frustrated guest enter.
“You are disillusioned,” Ausable told him. “But take cheer, my young
friend.