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"Pletcher snatched for it and managed to deflect the muzzle."

Tsang, Sea Captain

By JAMES W. BENNETT

The gun-runner for the Chinese Communists finds himself pitted against
the shrewd Oriental cleverness of Tsang Ah-bou—a vivid
novelette of present-day China

TSANG 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

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