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IN the course of his professional duties Tab Holland had been brought into contact with the master of the Golden Roof on two occasions. The first followed a small scandal, which only remotely touched the restaurant (the woman who was the subject of Tab's investigation had dined there at an important date), and once in connection with a dead-season topic dealing with the nutritive values of food.
He had found the Chinaman reserved to a point of taciturnity, monosyllabic in speech; a most unsatisfactory person.