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27.The Midnight Visitor Guide Questions Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer: Answer Questions for Discussion Questions for Discussion Reading Comprehension 27.The Midnight Visitor Max’s face was black with anger as he backed swiftly toward the window; with his hand behind him , he opened the window and put his leg out into the night .“Send them away!” he warned .“I will wait on the balcony . Send them away or I’ll shoot and take my chances!” The knocking at the door became louder and a voice was raised. “Mr .Ausable ! Mr . Ausable! ” Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, the man at the window grasped the frame with his free hand to support himself as he rested his weight on one thigh. Then he swung his other leg up and over the window sill. The doorknob turned . Swiftly Max pushed with his left hand to free himself and drop to the balcony. And then as he dropped, he screamed once, shrilly. The door opened and a waiter stood there with a tray, a bottle and two glasses. “Here is the drink you ordered , sir.” He set the tray on the table, deftly uncorked the bottle, and left the room. White faced and shaking, Fowler stared after him. “But…but …what about… the police? ” he stammered. “There never were any police.” Ausable sighed. “Only Henry,whom I was expecting. ” “But what about the man on the balcony… ?”Fowler began. “No,”said Ausable, “he won’t return .” Ausable did not fit the description of any secret agent : Scarcely a setting for a romantic figure :hardly the right place for an important secret agent to live . for one --- then --- : You were told that I was a secret agent , a spy , dealing in espionage danger . Instead , you have spent a dull in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages sliped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties,get only an ordinary telephonemaking an appointment i