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SANG AH-BOU, a detective, was employed by that unique governing body, the Shanghai Municipal Council—which organization apportions taxes and in turn offers police and other protection to some forty thousand Westerners in China's great port. Such a bald statement, however, does not tell of the strange and highly colored life led by that Oriental, who had attained as near infallibility in his profession as is often given to mortal man.

In appearance Tsang was a rotund Oriental of medium height, not dissimilar