Midnight Visit Robert Arthur Ausable did not fit any description of a "Instead, you have spent a dull evening secret agent Fowler had ever read. Following in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man him down the musty corridor of the gloomy who, instead of having messages slipped into hotel in Paris where Ausable had a room, his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only a Fowler felt let down. It was a small room prosaic telephone call making an appoint- ment in his room. You have been bored on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a The fat man chuckled as he unlocked the setting for a figure of romantic adventure But Ausable, very fat, in a wrinkled business door of his room and stood aside to let his suit badly in need of cleaning, could hardly guest enter You are disillusioned be called a romantic figure. Ausable told You are disappointed Ausable said him But take cheer, my young friend. wheezily over his shoulder. "You were told Presently you will see a paper, a quite im that I was a secret agent a spy, dealing in portant paper for which several men have espionage and danger. You wished t meet ked their lives, come to me in the next-to- me because you are a writer, young and the-last step of its journey into official romantic. You envisioned figures hands. Someday soon that paper may well mysterious in the night, the crack of pistols, drugs in the affect the course of history. In that thought there is drama, is there not?" wine Robert Arte Copment 1939 Adapted from MYSTERY AND MORE MYSTERY. and ranewod 1967 by Robert Arhur. Ropnnted by petmiss on Random House, Inc. 1973 science earch Assoc5tee, ina. rights reserved. Printed in the United States of Amenca 1983 Edition