You imagined mysterious figures in the night, the crack of pistols, drugs in the wine. "Instead, you have spent a dull evening in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. You have been bored!" The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood aside to let his frustrated*guest enter. "You are disillusioned," Ausable told him. "But take cheer, my young friend. Presently you will see a paper, quite an important paper... Show more

You imagined mysterious figures in the night, the crack of pistols, drugs in the wine.
"Instead, you have spent a dull evening in a French music hall with a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. You have been bored!" The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood aside to let his frustrated*guest enter.
"You are disillusioned," Ausable told him. "But take cheer, my young friend. Presently you will see a paper, quite an important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands Some day soon that paper may well affect the course of history. In that thought is drama, is there not ?" As he spoke, Ausable closed the door behind him. Then he switched on the light.
And as the light came on, Fowler had his first authentic thrill of the day. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man.
Ausable blinked a few times.
"Max," he wheezed. "You gave me quite a start. I thought you were in Berlin. What are you doing in my room ?"
Max was slender, not tall, and with a face that suggested the look of a fox. Except for the gun, he did not look veiy dangerous. (249 words)

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