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Footprints Without Feet Ch 3_ The Midnight Visitor
Footprints Without Feet Ch 3_ The Midnight Visitor
He was an alert, agile, sharp-witted and When he knew that Max was in his
renowned secret agent. His appearance room at midnight, he panicked but
as a spy was quite disappointing as he was able to immediately make a plan
was a fat sloppy man with no fitness. to get rid of him.
Ausable
Chapter in Detail
Fowler and Ausable
• Fowler was a young writer who wanted to write adventure stories about
spies and espionage.
• He had met Ausable, an American spy living in France in the hopes of
experiencing a real adventure.
• But he was disappointed to see that Ausable was very fat, spoke French
with a Boston accent, and did not look like a spy at all.
• Fowler's dreams of witnessing an adventure had not come true.
Character's Mood
Disappointed, hopeless.
Fowler Gets His First Thrill
• Ausable was expecting some important documents to be delivered to his
apartment.
• He and Fowler were going to wait in Ausable's apartment for the
appointment.
• The moment they entered the apartment and switched the light on, they
saw a man standing in the room with a gun pointed at them.
• Ausable recognised the man as Max, a rival spy.
• Max had come to steal the documents which Ausable was about to
receive.
Ans. In order to get rid of Max and save the research papers, Ausable lied
and made a false story of a 'non-existent' balcony that was attached to
the room. When Max heard that the police had came, he jumped out of
the window hoping to land the balcony but he fell off the sixth floor to
the ground and died.
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