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Long ago, Yasumasa, the governor of Settsu, had a younger brother named Yasusuke, who had been granted the court cap and served as a lieutenant in the Imperial Guard. He was the chief of a band of thieves. His house stood south of Aneyakōji and east of Takakura. At the rear of the house he built a storehouse, beneath which he dug a pit as deep as a well. He would invite in people selling all manner of goods—swords, saddles, armor, helmets, silk, and cloth—and agree to whatever price they asked. Then, saying, “See that they are paid,” he would have them taken to the storehouse at the back. When they went there to receive their money, they would be called inside and thrust, one after another, into the pit, while he kept the goods they had brought. No one who entered Yasusuke’s house with wares to sell ever came out again. The merchants thought this strange, but since he buried his victims and killed them, there was no one to tell what had happened. Nor was this all: he roamed the capital, living by theft. Rumors of his deeds began to circulate, yet for some reason he went on without ever being seized or bound.