Miscellany
Preceding “An Ugly Case,” I introduced some episodes under the section Miscellany, including Ex-Prostitute Christian and Murder of Prostitutes, and the reader might still have fresh memories of them.
I found a few undisclosed fragments among the materials piled up on my desk. It is a shame to discard such material but I also thought that it is not worth a separate section, and therefore, I decided to put the title Miscellany back up. It might be interesting for Miscellany to embark on the second journey. In fact, I could even entitle it “Collecting Remnants of Miscellany.”
Gamble-Loving Bitch
According to Wong, a Chinese person in Revelstoke, Japanese prostitutes already had settled ten years ago in places like Spoken, Nelson and Kaslo. As I indicated in the beginning of the series, most Japanese devils in the interior do not put so much effort to hide in the shade of the society, but there are exceptions. I have heard that there are some, who engage in the ugly business discretely. Fellows like Chiba, Yamada and Satō rather publicly run caves; they are known across the cities of devil society and are associated with others. But, as devils in the interior accept, some devils are not even known in the devil society, keeping their faces and backgrounds completely hidden. In fact, they are located outside the area covered in the series. They have their nests in remote places where no single Japanese figure can be found such as a mine in the Kootenay region or in the mountain near Penticton, and are doing prostitution for a rough white gang.
The one I put on the table here is called Otaki, who was prostituting herself in the BC interior almost two decades ago. Otaki drifted from the California region, switching her lovers one after another and investing all the money she happened to obtain into gambling. This bitch was born in around Nagasaki. Apparently, her nephew—I do not recall his name—is currently serving his severe prison time in Hong Kong for murder. There is a rare story regarding this, which I will introduce in the next episode.