Footprints ch03 The Midnight Visitor

CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 03
The Midnight Visitor

Ausable was a smart secret agent, but did not look like one at all, being short and very fat. Fowler was a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him.
When both of them returned to Ausable’s sixth floor hotel room, another secret agent named Max was waiting for them with a gun so that he could take the important report on new missiles from Ausable.
To ensure the reports and their own safety, Ausable invented a story about anybody his room easily through a balcony just below the window in his room. Actually there was no balcony.
Suddenly there was a knocking on the door and Ausable pretended that it was the local police.
When the knocking repeated, Max decided to wait in the balcony (which he thought existed) until the police went away. He stepped out of the window and fell to his death.
When the door opened, a waiter came in with drinks which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to the hotel.