27The Midnight Visitor精品分析.pptVIP

Outline of The Text When Fowler, the young writer, met Austable, he didn’t think Austable fit the description of a secret agent he’d ever read about. As Fowler followed this spy down the musty corridor of a gloomy hotel to a small room, he got a great shock. For halfway across the room stood a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand. The man said to Ausable he came to take an important report that was being brought to Ausable. Instead of mentioning the report, Austable began to complain angrily about the management of the hotel .He said that was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room off that balcony which extended under his window. * Just then there was a knock at the door. Austable told the man that would be the policeman he had called for extra protection. As the knocking became louder ,the man got quite nervous and frightened but warned he would wait on the balcony and take a risk. So when the door knob turned , he swiftly dropped out of the window. After the door opened, a waiter came in with the drink Ausable had ordered. While Foeler was worried about the man hiding on the balcony, Ausable told him calmly that the would never return. * next room — through that door there — used to be the living room. It had the balcony, which extends under my windows now. You can get onto it from the empty room next door, and somebody did, last month .The management promised to block it off .But they haven’t .” Max glanced at Fowler, who was standing stiffly a few feet from Ausable, and waved the gun with a commanding gesture. “Please sit down,” he said . “We have a wait of half an hour , I think.” “Thirty-one minutes.”Ausble said moodily. “The appointment was for twelve-thirty. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, Max . ” * The little spy smiled evilly. “And we wish we knew how your people got the report. But, no harm has been done. I will get it back tonight. What is that ?Who is at the door?” Fowler jump