The Book of Deceive
“I have been invited to a drinking-bout by Midzuno Jiurozayémon. I know full well that this is but a stratagem to requite me for having fooled him and maybe his hatred will go the length of killing me. However, I shall go and take my chance; and if I detect any sign of foul play, I'll try to serve the world by ridding it of a tyrant, who passes his life in oppressing the helpless farmers and wardsmen. Now as, even if I succeed in killing him in his own house, my life must pay forfeit for the deed, you come tomorrow night with a burying-tub, and fetch my corpse from this Jiurozayémon's house.”
Tôken Gombei, when he heard the “Father” speak thus, was horrified, and tried to dissuade him from o
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