Describe the incident leading to the death of Max in The Midnight Visitor'.
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Answer:Fowler is surprised to see a secret agent Ausable who is too fat to be a secret agent. Ausable tells him that he was going to get an important paper for which many men have risked their lives. When both of them reach Ausable’s room,
Fowler is scared to see a man standing in the room.Max who is tall and thin man and is holding an automatic pistol in his hand . He had entered his room by using a key to take the report concerning a new missile. Ausable ,sensing the danger, fabricated a story about the non-existent balcony which Max believed to be true.Ausable complained that it was due to the balcony that somebody had entered his room the second time. After sometime there was knocking at the door.Ausable again befooled Max by saying that it was the police who wanted to come inside to provide him protection. Max wanted to run away to avoid the police and jumps to his death into that non-existent balcony.
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ausable had an instant and fertile mind actually there was no balcony below the window of room, he only created a story with his sharp mind .. this confused max so he jumped form the window expecting a balcony below it (as per the storty of asubale this leads to the dead of max)