Among those I mentioned above, Takagi was still not part of the devil crowd at the time of writing the previous series. He is from Koshigoe area of Sagami (present-day Kanagawa prefecture) and was nominated as a devil candidate by the interior fellows after making big scenes by blustering out with his blasted rolling tongue. Drinking, gambling, being frequently sent to jail, he became one of the devils after convincing Oyasu into the cave. Puffing himself up and sinking deep into the mud, he would no longer be able to come back to straight spirits. As he is currently located in Calgary, I will detail him further when I write about the situation of Calgary in the future.
Motoki in Hosmer
Hosmer is a small city along CP branch lines and has nothing in particular to comment on, but Motoki in Hosmer is one of the oldest devils and well known among Japanese devils across the land, not to mention his own community of devils. In addition, there is currently no other Japanese cave in Hosmer except for the one he manages. In fact, a woman whose husband is called Hatakeyama is working in his house. Motoki’s prostitutes include his wife, Hatakeyama’s and another woman; Hatakeyama is terribly inconsiderate and works alone in the kitchen as a cook. Men’s psychology is a mystery. A matured man like him spends his days attending to the bath, serving pickles, and doing the dishes shamelessly, and what is worse, having his own wife sell licentiousness. This is a scene that is beyond the reach of normal imagination and hardly describable with words like ineptitude or indecency. It is truly depressing that such people exist among the Japanese.
Hosmer has four other prostitute caves owned by whites.
Situation in Michel
Speaking about Michel immediately reminds us of devil Chiba, who already returned to Japan in August two years ago. There are a countless number of indecent means and wicked plans he had produced since he got involved in devil caves in the interior of Canada after he worked on a railway in the United States. I will make it brief because I already mentioned him in the previous series, but a man called Itarō Takita from Hiroshima took over after Chiba left two years ago. The woman who accompanies him is Mary, a fat woman from Fukuoka, whom he snatched from a man called Tanigawa in the fall of 1908 in Cranbrook.