Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Seiichi Yei

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and we want to come and look the place over. Come on, I says. The thing is the whole family is asleep. They wanted to know waht I was doing . up then. I said, well, look, what I was doing. I was studying. They said, we're still going to search the house, bedrooms and all. I said, I don't think that's right. I said, they're all sleeping. They went in through every bedroom and everything else. Searched and opened the dresser drawers and everything else and they went up to my room. I had some photo developing equipment. I belonged to the camera club at the high school and I was just trying to learn how to develope pictures and stuff and wanted to know what I was doing with that. So I told them. I said, well, I belong to the photo club at high school and I'm trying to learn how to develop pictures. And they said, they wanted some kind of magazine that I had. Japanese magazine and I says, no, we don't have any Japanese magazines here. They were there I guess for about an hour. They prowled around and looked all over the place and then they left. LK: Got you angry a bit. SY: It made me angry that he would come in, especially at the hour of the night, you _know. But they could come in just 'cause they were the FBI, twelvy thirty at night, go through your house, go through every bedroom. I just figured well I guess that's the 22