Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d)
Memmy was sick one time in Calgary. When she was ill, she hired Kazuko and they traveled to places to make profit. In fact, they did not plan to travel between places and actually wished to live permanently in one place if their business went well there. However, there was no such luck and they ended up roaming about places and finally settled in Moose Jaw. They attempted to pioneer a cave there. Chatarō was with them. As they had some pocket money, they immediately started to build a house, spending extra money in parlor rigging; they wainscoted all around the rooms. One of the reasons for doing this was to protect the rooms from cold. Since it was rare to see Japanese prostitutes in town, the business went very successfully. To share a story blatantly, Memmy herself confessed that there was an endless line of clients even when they charged 15 dollars for overnight stays after 2 AM. Good fortune tends to come with devils, and this is no exception. Unfortunately, the story does not end here for a cave with lots of devils. Of course, this came with a price tag. The cave built with lots of investment was completely burned down due to a fire. They crawled away and again sunk to the status of nomads. To follow Memmy’s decorous speech, they had an “unbearable” experience.
Today, they have no choice but run their business in Macleod. But Chatarō, who is currently in Japan, is as clever enough to delete letters from documents by using secret chemicals, so he must be plotting something by now. Chatarō has already sent in a woman from Japan last summer, having a man called Asakura, Chatarō’s sister’s husband, travel from Calgary to pick her up in Vancouver and deliver her to Macleod. Asakura, who also goes by Suekichi Asamoto, failed his mission to pick up a woman called Ichi Terauchi, whom you know as a deported woman, after receiving a wireless telegraph and traveling from Calgary to carry out the mission. Apparently, both Asakura and Asamoto are false names. Anyway, Asakura brought the woman whom he delivered to Macleod to Cranbrook and met Memmy, who visited Cranbrook last August and stayed at the second floor of Sentarō Ōta’s. The purpose is nothing else: they planned to trade the woman if there is a demand, or temporarily lease her to someone for the period of few years, make some profit and send it to Japan so that Chatarō can use it to abduct prostitutes. However, the economy in Cranbrook was bad and there was no one interested in the trade; they had to return to Macleod. We do not know when Chatarō is able to return to Canada again. There is a rumor that the next passport he will get is valid only for six months.
Let me finish Mizoguchi’s matters now and move on to another direction. There is another one called Takeshi Satō.