appearances can be deceptive explain this statement with reference to midnight visitor
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The Midnight Visitor is an apt tale by Robert Arthur. It talks about a detective Ausable who is fat and sloppy unlike other detectives. Though he speaks German and French passably, he has not lost the American accent he brought with him to Paris from Boston.
Fowler, a young and romantic writer comes to meet Ausable in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. He is disappointed with Ausable and feels the location was scarcely a setting for a romantic adventure.
Ausable knows that Fowler envisioned mysterious figures in the dark, crack of pistols and drugs in the wine. He expected Ausable to be given messages by dark eyed beauties but instead he gets only a prosaic telephone call. But Ausable assures him that he'll be entertained as soon he'll get a report regarding some missiles for which several men and women have risked their lives. This paper may soon turn the course of history.
Surprisingly Ausable finds Max in his room holding an automatic pistol in his hand. He is startled to see Max. He asks him how he entered the room. Max tells him that he entered the room with a passkey. However, Ausable tells him that he thought that Max entered by climbing the balcony. In a detailed explanation, Ausable tricks Max into believing that there was an actual balcony.
There was a sudden knock at the door. Fowler jumped in startle but Ausable was unperturbed. Ausable told Max that it were the police and they could enter at any time. Max told Ausable to make them go away or he'll shoot and take his chances. Max then jumped off the window and let out a shrill cry once.
But it was the waiter who had brought the drink Ausable had ordered. He deftly uncorked the bottle and left. Fowler was worried as Max would return back. But Ausable assured him that he won't since there is no balcony.
Hence with presence of mind and intelligence, even the fat Ausable could outwit slender Max. Thus, looks are deceptive.
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Ausable was a secret agent, but when Fowler first met him, he was disappointed. Ausable did not fit any description of a typical secret agent. He was fat, had an American accent and sloppy. In other words, he was prosaic and resembled an ordinary man.
Fowler gets his first thrill of the night when he sees a man, Max, standing in Ausable's room with an automatic pistol. Max was there to seize some confidential documents from Ausable. Fowler is flustered, but Ausable calmly handles the situation.
Ausable cleverly concocts a story about a balcony and some policemen to scare Max. A bewildered Max jumps out of the window to wait on the balcony to discover that there was actually no balcony and was killed. Thus Ausable acted like a true secret agent. Hence, appearances can be very deceptive and no one should be judged on their basis.
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