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KEY POINTS

 Fowler felt that Ausable did not look like a secret agent at all.

 He was following Ausable to his room through a smelly and a bit scary corridor.

 His room was on the top floor which was the sixth floor of the hotel.
 Ausable was a very fat man and his accent was American although he had been living in
Paris for the last twenty years and could speak a bit of French and German.

 Then Ausable tells Fowler that although he was told that he was going to meet a secret
agent, a spy who had been dealing with danger, crime scenes and drugs but Fowler was
disappointed.

 He had to spend the evening in a music hall with an old, poorly dressed, extremely fat
man who used traditional methods for making the information travel rather than
beauties delivering to him.

 WORD MEANINGS

1.Musty- having a stale, mouldy, or damp smell.
2.Corridor- a long passage in a building from which doors lead into rooms.
3. Gloomy- dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.
4. Scarcely- only just; almost not.
5.Accent- a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a
particular country, area, or social class.
6.Passably- just well enough; tolerably well
7. Espionage- spying