Marcel D'Orly wrote his extremely bizarre novel of sensual debauchery and sexual perversion "Bastinado" while residing in the Soho district in London. Known for its haunts of off-beat and queer practitioners of both sexes, this fascinating study of psycho-sexuals in action may very well be a thinly-disguised recounting of the author's actual experiences in Soho. The book was promptly banned in London and D'Orly was expelled from London University where he had been attending classes. When it appeared on the Paris bookstalls, the censors there made short work of it as well. "Bastinado" is nevertheless considered a classic of its type and survived as a collector's item of modern avant garde literary erotica.
Although the behavior of some of the characters may seem shocking, the following observations of the famed analyst Dr. S. Scymanski may enlighten the reader on the cause of various psycho-sexual abberations :
"The following is another case of apparently inexplicable behavior. This concerned a man who was recognized as a sophisticated and fastidious man of the world by his friends - an aesthete in every sense of the word. He merged into periodic attacks during which he was depressed and agitated because of being- troubled by bad taste in his mouth and by peculiar odors. Oral surgeons and nose and throat specialists could find nothing to account for his symptoms, yet they persisted for weeks.
"I found upon deep analysis that this man had a compulsive mode of thinking ever since childhood upon anal and reetal matters. It further developed that since the age of sixteen he had developed the habit of sticking his finger in his rectum, then smelling and tasting it. At the age of twenty-one he began to go out with girls, struggled against this habit, and finally succeeded in stopping his auto-erotic manipulation of his own rectum. But even though he stopped his physical habit, the psychological symptoms of bad taste and bad odor recurred whenever he was under stress of any kind.
"This man broke off treatment suddenly and I learned later that he had entered into a homosexual affair with a younger man . . . Apparently he was now gratifying his lifelong subconscious wishes."
In the light of the foregoing analysis, the reader may develop a greater self-understanding after finishing this unusual tale of sensual indulgence. In any event he will do well to remember that all schools of psychology recommend self-discipline to the individual faced with temptation to do what he knows is morally wrong.
Continental Classics brings this version of "Bastinado" in its complete and unexpurgated form. It is recommended only for the graduate student or mature adult.
Herbert Ross. M.A. March, 1968 New York City
PREFACE
This is second wonderful work from the pen of Mr. Charles SackvHle. and continues the story of the amusing exploits of Mr. Howard in fields of voluptuous delight seldom explored by ordinary men. Mr. Howard finds his pleasure in devoting his ample fortune to securing as his complete prisoners beautiful and virtuous young ladies, and then with utmost deliberation he subjects them to every form of humiliation his fecund imagination can invent or suggest. They are forced to uncover their beautiful white limbs gradually before him, they are carefully fixed and strapped in all manner of indecent attitudes and contorsions; they are compelled to perform the most lewd and lubri-cious acts to enhance his physical delight. They are whipped with all manner of instruments of chastisement with the utmost severity, and are finally ravished while bound firmly in some provocative attitude.
The scenes are described is so convincing a manner that it is impossible not to believe that the writer has indeed participated in them. Mr. Sackville being a scholar and a gentleman with a rare delicacy of style, his exquisite books are meant for persons of refinement of both sexes, and no word that could offend the most delicate female ear finds a place in his work.,
It seems impossible to believe that anything more delicately lascivious than this volume can
be conceived, but Mr. Sackville alone can surpass himself, and he promises to do this in the next volume upon which he is now at work.
CHAPTER I
After parting with her two step-daughters to Mr. Howard, Mrs. Day continued to reflect on the strange terms he made including his absolute authority to punish them when he thought fit.
She was herself only thirty-five years old and she had therefore herself never thought of venturing any attempt to punish the girls physically but now the idea of such a possibility filled her with strange feelings of sensual curiosity.
In her vivid imagination she tried to picture the girls being chastised, and wondered how much clothes Mr. Howard removed and whether he tied them down or otherwise fastened them when he punished them, and what instruments he employed to strike them with.
After about a month she had brooded over the possibilities of what was happening to her step daughters till she at last determined to call on Mr. Howard and see whether she could not persuade him to allow her to be secretly present when next he chastised one of them.
She felt quite certain that the girls were some times punished physically by him because of the explicit condition he made that he might have free liberty to do so, before he paid her debts.
She herself was a splendid woman nearly six feet in her stockings and she was every day be-coming more and more filled with chagrin that she had not asserted her undoubted authority herself and whipped her step daughters, well anyway as she had missed the opportunity she thought she might in the peculiar circumstances take advantage of her knowledge and get Mr. Howard to let her be a spectator now she had lost her chance of being the inflictor of the punishments.
Mr. Howard of course received her when she called with great affability, and she thought he looked her over with an eyes of desire as she discarded her cloak and showed her voluptuous figure draped only in muslin, as the weather was rather warm, soon she inquired whether her girls had behaved themselves or had needed correction, in a cool manner as though she took their chastisement as a matter of course.
Mr. Howard began to divine her drift, and answered. "Oh yes, I have frequently whipped them and their humiliation and subjection has been carried out by me gradually but thoroughly and as they are both beautiful young ladies with skins and pretty figures, I do not at all regret our bargain Mrs. Day."
"I can't think," she replied " why in the world I did not punish them with the whip myself when they were in my charge I have been regretting it ever since I handed them over to you "then she hesitated and drew her chair nearer and added in a lower voice I would very much like to see them chastised by you." And her bosom heaved with suppressed excitement. "Mr. Howard replied," what now: "Yes, yes now!"
"But they have been quite good lately.
"Never mind, invent something, anything, do please" and she laid her soft hand on his leg.
"You will have to sign another paper," he said.
"Oh very well! I will sign anything you like" and she laughed uneasily.
Mr. Howard proceeded calmly to draw up a declaration for her to sign to the effect that although she knew her step-daughters were both quite good and did not at all deserve any punishment yet she very much desired to see them both stripped naked whipped very severely by Mr. Howard, such a document was sufficient to damn any woman but her excitement was such that she signed it in a moment.
Mr. Howard put it in his safe and without a word conducted Mrs. Day up to the gymnasium and the bell into Maud's room, she instantly appeared. "Fetch Mrs. Day's step daughters here," he said "While she was gone on her errand Mr. Howard showed Mrs. Day the last addition to the gymnasium which was a large table with rings all round it covered with thick black cloth over a bed of several thicknesses of blanket it was fitted with an ingenious apparatus by which either end could be raised to any angle from the horizontal to the perpendicular."
"Will you fasten the girls down to this?" Mrs. Day asked her eyes dilating with anticipated excitement. "Well not at once," he replied "they will of course be humiliated first by having to undress before me slowly, and then may have to be persuaded to do that with cuts of a whip before they will comply of course when quite stripped the black cloth will throw up their white limbs most artistically but here they come."
Maud arrived with Miss Rose and Nellie: who when they saw their step mother looked extremely surprised.
Maud locked the door and brought Mr. Howard the key and then stood awaiting orders.
"No doubt" said Mr. Howard to the sisters, "you wonder why your dear step mother is here, so I will tell you: she has expressed a great desire to witness my methods of punishment for big girls like you, and I have told her that just a present neither of you have done anything to deserve chastisement, but she has assured me that as far as she is concerned that need not prevent me inflicting the severest punishment upon you, as it will interest her just as much to see you punished whether you deserve it or not," at this the two girls flushed with indignation and Rose ejaculated. "Please, Sir, do not so much a thing merely to please that wretch; it is a great shame to let her"-"Stop a moment" said Mr. Howard, "I did not say I was going to do it, no one rules here but me, and everyone shall obey me whatever I choose to do,-including Mrs. Day."
He paused while Mrs. Day looked uncomfortable and the girls puzzled-"I will at least show Mrs. Day," he added "that I am accustomed to absolute obedience, so Rose and Nellie, you are to undress immediately as far as your chemises, one at time before me, come and stand here Rose; now proceed without hurry to disrobe.
Rose stepped gracefully forward and with a look of concentrated hate at Mrs. Day began slowly to take off her dress, petticoats, and stays. Mrs. Day watched the process with a flushed face and heaving bosom wildly excited at the humiliation of the girl, who thus had voluntarily to expose herself half naked before a man who thus exercised his unlimited power over her. Nellie had next to do the same and during the process nothing was heard but the rustle of the elegant clothes as they were removed and laid aside by the lovely girls, Maud stood demurely silent wondering what Mr. Howard intended, as he had never before admitted any grown up stranger to the gymnasium and its scenes, she kept her eyes on Mr. Howard and presently he made a sign to her to stand behind Mrs. Day. Without a word she looked that splendid young woman over as though measuring her strength and took her stand behind her chair.
The two sisters still stood in chemise drawers and stockings and neat shoes side by side in front of Mr. Howard.
"Make them lift up de tails of their chemises and show you their drawers all the way up," said Mrs. Day, licking her lips with excitement, and hardly able to control the sensual sensations the whole affair was causing her. "Rose," he said, "Lift your chemise slowly up and let me see your thighs, Nellie go behind your sister and pull the drawers quite tight over her thighs in front."
Both girls silently obeyed the immodest order and Mrs. Day's self control quite left her at the sight of the helpless girls exposed in this most indecent manner to Mr. Howard, and she gasped out: "Oh! do begin the punishment of the girls and tie them down and whip them well go on dear Mr. Howard!"
"Now girls," said Mr. Howard "you have heard your dear step mother express her delight at seeing you made to undress and her desire to see you whipped for nothing, what would you in your turn like to see done to her supposing the tables were turned and she were in your power as you are at this moment in mine."
Rose instantly found her tongue: "I would love to see the wretch made to undress herself, made to lie out on that table and made to submit herself to all kinds of floggings at your hands sir, and then I would like to see her fastened on her back and tormented naked till she can bear no more without dying."
"Do you hear that." said he, turning to the lady, "can you say that what she proposes would be unjust."
"Unjust!" she gasped turning white "what do you mean."
"I mean that there are three strong girls besides myself in this remote apartment and that you are utterly in my power, that you have deliberately placed yourself in a perfectly indefensible position morally as well as physically, that you are I can see a remarkably fine creature with a figure you need not be at all ashamed of revealing to so competent a connoisseur as myself, and that you do really deserve all the punishments you wished these innocent girls to endure. It therefore seems obviously my duty, as it will most certainly be my pleasure, to carry through the suggestions of Rose in your regard; Maud and you two girls I deliver Mrs. Day into your hands if she is not obedient to you, you can promise her any kind of chastisement you like, for obedient she shall be made before she ever leaves this gymnasium." With one wild cry of terror Mrs. Day sprang up and started for the door; and the girls knowing well it was locked and no noise she could make would be heard beyond double walls and doors of the gymnasium let her struggle ineffectually with the door handle while they armed themselves with wrist and ankle straps Maud quietly superintended and directed Rose and Nellie to each seize one her hands, twist her arms and fasten the wrists together behind her back, the two girls, lithe as panthers in their scanty coverings pounced upon the terrified lady and in a moment had her hands behind her back securely strapped together, Maud with lightning dexterity got a pair of shackles round her ankles connected by a leather thong eighteen inches long-this left her the possibility of moving about with very short steps but entirely precluded any use of her legs for kicking. Taking her by the wrists she then turned her round and made her hobble to the middle of the room.
Rose stood in front of the now vociferating victim and told her to cease that noise, at the same time raising her hand and giving her a stinging smack on her left check with her open hand.
"So you liked seeing us stripped before Mr. Howard did you, you beast," she exclaimed smacking her other cheek smartly. "Now we will strip you!" and with a rough wrench she tore the thin muslin off her white neck and shoulders exposing the Lady's splendid bust naked to the top of the low small stays.
The victim now turned her scarlet face to Mr. Howard and in wild accents implored him to protect her from those shameless girls!
"Why they propose to strip you and I am not so ungallant as not to fell certain that such a spectacle will be a voluptuous threat for me."
They are very pretty stripped naked, but I am sure you will be a glorious sight! None of us owe you any obligations and I, myself begin to feel a wish to see more of your appetizing figure. Bring her here girls and lay her over my knees." The three girls instantly seize her and put her over Mr. Howard's legs with her head buried in a pillow on the floor, her hands being fastened behind her back rendered her quite helpless in their hands and the shackles prevented her kicking, Mr. Howard began, lifting her petticoats up over her back till at last he reached the drawers, her beautiful long legs were exquisitely shaped and the swell of her thighs and bottom was most luxuriously voluptuous he passed his hand all about over the tight thin covering feeling the elastic firm flesh with slow insistence. "Undo her drawers Rose," he said "the girl's soft and eager fingers quickly untie them and draw them gradually down to her knees leaving the large expanse of lily white skin quite naked. I am afraid your late husband never gave himself such a treat with you as this; he remarked raising his hand giving her, bounding posteriors several vigorous spanks. "Will you be obedient and take off your clothes yourself if I let you get up and undo your hands." But she only answered by impotent struggles and wild cries. Mr. Howard signed to the girls to sit on her feet and to silence her screams. They immediately held her feet down and one put her hand over her mouth, Mr. Howard then passed his hand down between the plump naked cheeks of her bottom seized her in her most sensitive spot with his finger and thumb and began steadily pinching her causing excruciating pain. Her whole body became rigid and she made frantic but unavailing efforts to escape. Mr. Howard watched her stiffening the muscles of her legs and pinched harder still.
Presently he stopped and let her get her breath then he again asked if she were ready to do everything she was ordered to do: again he began to pinch her but then she gave in and gave a smothered and gasping promise to do as he wished, letting her kneel down between his knees her hands were released and he told her to take off her stays and let her chemise down to her waist: With heart breaking sobs the poor lady slowly fulfilled these commands. When she was naked from chin to waist Maud came without orders and took the lady's chin with both hands from behind and pulled her head up and back at the same time putting her knee between her naked shoulders, this stuck her large firm breasts impudently out and up for Mr. Howard to inspect and feel.
No girl in the school not even Norah Byron possessed so deep and beautiful a bosom as young Mrs. Day and Mr. Howard grasped it here and there with infinite gusto. Rose watched intently and presently handed Mr. Howard a steel pin with a glass head: "She may like being stroked! Prick it!"
Mr. Howard took the pin. Maud stiffened her grip, the pin was pressed with steady force on the lower tender surface of the left breast, both hands dashed to protect her delicate bosom, Rose immediately seized one hand, Nellie the other and help them up over her head and backwards helping to strain the naked front out to meet the cruel application of the pin.
After pricking her here and there eliciting shrieks from the helpless victim, Mr. Howard said roughly: "Get up and strip, and place yourself face downwards on the table, and I will give you the severe whipping you wanted the girls to have."-"Oh! spare me, foi God's sake, I can't bear any more degradation and pain."
"Give me a whip girls!" Nellie hands him one. He stands over the lady and gives her a smart cut across the naked shoulders.
"Stand up and strip yourself," another severe cut follows-she writhes with the pain and struggles to her feet, but Mr. Howard is now getting too excited to spare her and as she gets to her feet he cuts the little whip with a souding crack right across her left bosom.
"Obey Mr. Howard at once," cries Nellie, giving her a swinging smack in the face with her hand. The poor girl is too cowed to retaliate, and with choking sobs begins to undo her skirts and petticoats and let them fall on the floor at her feet.
When nothing is left on her but her drawers, which she had pulled up again when allowed to get up she stands with her knees across each other and her face in her hands a picture of shame, Nellie and Rose continue to insult her and they pull her drawers light over her legs and bottom and administer swinging slaps with sparkling eyes.
"Lie on the table," at last says Mr. Howard, giving a cut with the whip over her slim calves.
Weeping and imploring for mercy she goes to te table pursued with flicks of the whip and gets upon it on her face, Rose and Nellie drag her hands up to the rings at the top corners and strap her wrists tight with broad web straps. "Leave her legs and feet free at present," says Mr. Howard, "but elevate the table at the top end. The girls wind the screw and the table rises up and up at the trop and till the girl begins to slip and her weight comes partially into her wrists, the bottom end of the table is now close to the ground as one end descends and the other goes up; her feet however do not reach the end by at least a foot.
Mr. Howard gazes at the long beautiful thighs and legs with admiration, he takes up the riding whip and passes it through his hand.
"During the severe whipping I am going now to give you," said Mr. Howard "I intend you to be kept quiet, as screaming relieves the pain and I intend you not even to have that relief; Maud keep her silent." Maud gets on a chair and puts both hands over her mouth leaving her only her nose to breathe through. The sudden silence seems to add to the other's sensuality as Mr. Howard lightly flicks the naked flesh fastened before him here and there daintily with the whip.
The other girls gaze on the suspended beauty with greedy eyes watching each application of the whip and the jerks of the girl that follow it. The only sounds are the wicked smacks of the elastic lash over the writhing white flesh, the smothered groans of the victim, and the excited breathing of the assistants at the lascivious scene. Whenever the girl writhes she slips further down on the black background and more weight comes on her wrists.
Mr. Howard aims smart cuts over the skin just between her stockings and her drawers producing by repeated strokes on the same spot the most violent wriggles and twists of the legs. When she puts up her knees he flicks her over the calves till she puts them down again. After about a quarter of an hour of this elegant flagellation he said: "Now we will begin the serious whipping, girls! Pull her drawers quite off." Four willing hands drag the last covering off, leaving the most adorable bottom and thighs stark naked and held at a perfect angle for the whip-Mr. Howard lays the whip across the girl large bottom high up, the white flesh fairly dazzled him, thrown up as it was by the black cloth. He held the whip away and brought it with frightful force across the selected spot.
The other girl gasped at the sound as it struck the skin; the girl gave a wild bound and began frantic plunges all about the table which must have hurt her wrists terribly, but she forgot everything but her bottom naked under the whistling whip.
Mr. Howard waited and watched the struggling legs, presently he struck again with fearful severity across the bounding bottom. Again she stiffened her body in frantic convulsive contortions again he waited and again struck hard until he had slashed the whip across every inch of the wide expanse of nakedness before him.
It was clear that this flogging was giving him unusual excitement and that the girl would get not mercy.
When all the bottom was covered with she cries and howls: "Oh Lord! Lord! have a
"I can't whip her legs properly till they are fastened, so now fix her knees wide apart. The sisters immediately drag the thighs as wide as they can go and strap them up to rings at the sides of the table.
"Let her speak now a bit," he says to Maud, "and you girls lower her head and elevate her feet." As soon as Maud releases her mouth, she cries and howls: "Oh Lord! Lord! have a little mercy! Oh my sufferings are incredible. Mr. Howard pinching her between her wide Let me die for God's sake!"
"You are only receiving what you wanted
Rose and Nellie to get you woeful woman," said Mr. Howard, pinching her between her wide stretched legs while the table was being tilted the other way. "You have not had a quarter of your punishment yet."
Soon she was hanging by her knees with her hair tumbled unto the ground.
Nellie and Rose each gave her a good smack on her scarlet bottom.
"Whip her legs well Uncle," said Maud in a demure voice coming behind him and pressing against him with her loins while she gently moved her hand up and down in front of him over his clothes and them put a hand in his pocket. "Yes, I will Maud," he said, laying the whip against the inside of her left leg high up. "Slowly please," he said over his shoulder to the naughty girl who had her hand on him.
The whip swept round the plump surface the victim uttered a yell and Mr. Howard watched the muscles quivering while Maud very gently added to his lustful sensations with her hands.
Again the unhappy victim cried: "Oh! let me die! I cannot endure it any more and live!"
"You are a long way from dying," he remarked, giving her another awful cut over the other leg on its soft inside surface high up. Whipping only enlivens girls and makes them less phlegmatic and he whisked the whip into this gap between straddled thighs.
A hoarse howl followed this cut and the girl screwed her loins to the table and lifted her head and shoulders up in her agony. Maud went still slower with her titillations. "I can't wait, I will chastise her front later on," he said over his shoulder and moving his own loins with the extremity of his excitement Maud's soft hands suddenly stroked him, with great rapidity the whip flew here, there and everywhere over the jerking muscles of the naked thighs with fearful cuts that betokened a loss of all control and with the wild shrieks of the girl the paroxysm of delight overcame Mr. Howard and the other spectators at the same moment.
After a short delay during which Mr. Howard took some refreshment, and directed Maud to give the temporarily released girl some champagne and brandy to fortify her for her further chastisement, the victim was once more stretched upon the table, but this time on her back with a hard bolster placed under her bottom. Her hands were stretched out right and left above head and tightly bound, her feet dragged apart and fixed, and her knees additionally strapped at their widest possible reach; thus bound down with her loins lifted up by the bolsters she presented a spectacle to rouse the feelings of the most phlegmatic.
The pull of her extended arms gave a firmness most pleasing to her splendid large bosoms and the bolster thrust her most private parts, into the most indecent protrusion.
Merely to see and feel a beautiful woman so fastened helpless on a table would be a most lascivious treat but to be able to whip her as well and in any manner and with any severity was an intoxicating prospect!
Her sobs of fear, and her quivering of abject terror were all additions to Mr. Howard voluptuous sensations.
He passed his hands rudely about her elastic breasts, asking her whether she was not experiencing the last dregs of humiliations.
Then with one hand pushing her bosoms this way and that he passed the other between her legs and forcibly thrust a finger into her; the bolster and the straps prevented her resisting by the least movement.
"This table holds you very well," he said, "you seem pretty helpless, don't you? This is how you would have liked to see Rose and Nellie stretched out, you shameless wanton woman; but I am sure they take as much delight in seeing you tied down like this."-"I am quite ashamed to look at her," said Miss Nellie, "but it serves her right."
Mr. Howard went on dallying with the girl, insulting her shoving two and then three fingers into her. pinching her flesh, pulling her hairs and prolonging her humiliations to the utmost; at last, he stood up and asked for a switch of nettles which Maud handed him:
"Lower her head a little and raise her feet." When this was done he passed the nettles down her side, watching her impotent effort to shrink away, then the other side. Then he daintily whisked them between her bosoms, at this her sobs rose to cries for mercy. Mr. Howard said: "Howl away my girl no one can hear you outside this room and we inside like to hear you. Unless you howl, we don't know how much you feel. Does that hurt very much?" And he lashed the nettles up and down over the pink centers of her dancing breasts.
"Now she began fierce struggles and wild cries, or does it hurt more here," and he flicked the nettles in between her straddled thighs once, twice, thrice, in quick successions. "Oh! stop! stop! not there for mercy's sake!" gasped the girl as a fourth well directed cut sent the nettles right into the place where his fingers had been, and which was widely exposed by the strained attitude of the divided thighs.
"Why, this only a ticking," he remarked, " compared to what I shall inflict on you presently," and he went on with some more whisks in the same place and them again flicked her across the bosoms.
The leaves were now a wreck so he threw them away. "A light long slim birch please, Maud," he said, and Maude fetched the terrible instrument.
Mr. Howard grasped it in his right hand. "Now," he said, "you shall at last know what a real severe flogging means, for a girl's front is twice as sensitive as her bottom and back, even the thighs are much more tender in front than behind, and the breast made for dalliance is endowed with exquisite sensibility. I shall keep this for the lats." All the three spectators now knew that they would witness a really unique chastisement and as Mr. Howard took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeve so as to give the fullest play to his right arm that held the birch they stood round trembling with excitement, in which any pity for the bound down beauty was lost in a wild lasciviousness, Mr. Howard looked the naked girl's front over with slow insistence as he got ready for attack. He touched her flesh here and there with the instrument in a tantalizing way and listened in silence to her entreaties for mercy. At last he grasped the birch raised it over his head and brought it down with a frightful sweep right across the protruding loins, making some of the hairs between her thighs fly and drawing the blood from the white skin on the further side of her.
One thwack into the flesh of the birch was succeeded by the wildest shrieks, but he took no heed of them with dilated eyes fixed on the struggling girl he brought the birch again, and again, and again with all his might down over the naked girl inflicting the most awful agony. When at last her cries seemed to be getting lower as thought insensibility was approaching, at a sign from him the head was further lowered to prevent the girl from fainting; at last when his excitement was at its utmost he struck a fierce cut over her breasts followed by another terrific cut between her legs.
A rigor seemed to seize the whole body of the girl followed by tremendous struggles that shook the whole table.
Again and again the flying birch wielded by his powerful arm, cut this way and that over her bounding bosoms drawing drops of blood at last the girl's body relaxed and she fainted just as Mr. Howard with a spasm of repletion gave a last furious thwack between her legs.
Nellie and Rose were by this time in a wild state of excitement and were by no means satisfied with even the last fearful flogging of the captive beauty. Without asking Mr. Howard's leave they consulted together and with Maud's help began to arrange the sobbing victim in an attitude--likely to nerve Mr. Howard to further severity.
They put web straps round the girl's ankles and attached them to pulleys in the roof at a considerable distance apart and gradually haul-led her feet up into the air till she was stretched head down in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross, hands and feet pulled wide apart.
Mr. Howard watched what they were doing with cruel eyes, he listened to the prayers and entreaties of the inverted victim as she hung, dragged resistlessly unto this awful attitude upside down.
"She can't faint with her head down and her feet up like that," said Rose, "so please Mr. Howard give her some more, we love to see her flogged you haven't made her properly bleed yet please, go on and torture her severely."
Mr. Howard at this came to the unhappy girl whose loins were just at a convenient height and putting his hand between her divided thighs began pulling the hairs out one by one careful deliberation, at first she bore it with only a sigh at each pull but as he went on steadily in the same place the pain became so great that her whole body writhed about at each forcible pull.
"It would be quicker if you singed it all off," said Rose, now beside herself with the lascivious feelings the punishment of the girl had roused in her.
Every spectator and actor in the scene was in such a state of voluptuous excitement that all sense of pity was drowned in the lustful desire to continue inflicting the utmost possible pain on the helpless naked girl, Rose brought a lighted and Mr. Howard began burning the girl's natural covering. They were all deaf to the shrieks and Mr. Howard gradually singed it all away.
"Thrash her with a hunting whip," said Nellie, bringing Mr. Howard the instrument which had a long lash ending in short twine with hard knots in it.
Mr. Howard seized the whip and brought it round one of the inverted thighs with all his strength the knots bit into her soft flesh drawing drops of blood. Wild contortions and fierce howls followed.
Mr. Howard nerved by his lascivious feelings to strike with all his might, slashed this fearful whip here and there over the swaying body and naked limbs.
The long cracks of the lash over the naked skin and the piercing cries of the girl filled the gymnasium-Blood began to flow freely, no one spoke, all watched with dilated eyes the strange scene.
At last Mr. Howard laid the lash between the widely separated thighs and slashed her six times in the bare naked gap, with which the chastisement was at last concluded.
CHAPTER II
Putting in to Smyrna during his summer cruise in his yacht to coal Mr. Howard happened to learn that there had recently died in the Hotel a Mr. Burke who rumor reported to be a stock broker from London who had fled from his creditors. But what immediately interested Mr. Howard was the fact that he had left a daughter penniless and alone in the world at the Hotel. He went ashore and finding the young lady extremely pretty with a charming figure, arranged with the hotel keeper to pay up all Mr. Burke's liabilities and to take Miss Burke off in his yacht. The poor girl regarded Mr. Howard as a rescuer dropped from the skies and went aboard the yacht without a moment's misgiving! She was only eighteen, innocent and trusting! Mr. Howard having rescued Miss Burke from her forlorn and orphaned and penniless position at the Hotel, and having sent notice, of course, false to the London papers of her demise, conveyed her on board his yacht and sailed away for the Atlantic. She was surprised to find a complete outfit of lovely clothes laid out for her, and ravishing tea gown with a note lying by them from Mr. Howard directing her in rather peremptory phrases to dress herself in these new habiliments for dinner.
However she saw no reason to object and soon appeared looking very seductive.
Dinner over and the stewards withdrawn Mr. Howard invited Miss Burke into an inner cabin most sumptuously upholstered in white satin and blazing with electric light.
"I hope you liked the clothes I provided for you," said he sitting down, "turn round and let me see how they fit you."
The girl bushed and: " Said are quite nice, thank you."
"Have you changed everything," said he, "chemise and drawers and stockings."
"I can't talk to you of such things," she replied, blushing scarlet.
"But I wish to know," said he, " and my wishes are law on board this yacht, so as you wont talk of underclothes to me I must ascertain whether you have been obedient by personal investigation-come and stand here by my chair."
The girl now turned deadly white with a sudden overwhelming fright.
She realized that she was alone on the yacht with Mr. Howard and helplessly in his power and she detected something in the icy politeness of his tones while he was saying things that shocked her modesty which made her shiver with apprehension.
In the abject fear that now fell upon her she did not dare disobey him and came slowly to the spot he indicated with his finger close beside his chair.
"Now," said he, "I have already seen the pretty things I bought for you laid out on your bed but such lacy underwear looks twice as well on a girl's limbs and I have a imagine for looking at your stockings and drawers now that they are on your legs, so just lift up your skirts please gradually and let me see how the things look now they are on. If you can manage to forget that your legs are inside shaping them out, and that I am a man and a stranger to you, you will not feel so immodest."
Grasping for breath Miss Burke found voice enough to say that she would rather die than do what he demanded, and no doubt at that moment she really meant what she said.
Mr. Howard however felt his voluptuousness rising with obvious terror of the girl, and watching her heaving breast he continued to say:
"Miss Burke whether you obey me voluntarily and do with your clothes and limbs what I tell you to do, or whether you prefer me to enforce obedience, the result will be the same, for whatever I choose to do you. it is in my absolute power to do."
"If you will not for instance yourself lift up your petticoats and show me your stockings and drawers up to your waist, I shall not therefore be deprived of the pleasure of seeing you thus exposed; either I shall punish you till you obey me, and by punish I mean chastise you with a riding whip across your naked shoulders, or I shall strap your hands up to the ceiling of the cabin to those hooks you see above your head, and lift up your clothes with my own hands.
"So, now, you can make up your mind whether you will obey me of your own accord or face the alternatives I have described to you-which is it to be?"
During this long speech of Mr. Howard poor Miss Burke had been twisting her lace handkerchief about in her trembling fingers and displaying all the signs of intense agitation.
She could hardly speak but managed to say in a low voice: "I will never willingly do what you tell me, never, never!"
"Very well," said Mr. Howard, as he rose and seized the girl by the left wrist which he quickly encircled in a padded strap attached to a cord which he passed over a hook in the ceiling just within his reach, and pulled at firmly till the girl's arm was forcefully drawn up at full stretch over her head.
"Now," said he, fastening the end to another hook in the wall. "I must expose your shoulders naked, as I mean to whip you there until you lift up your petticoats voluntarily with your free hand." Coming to the girl he began undoing the tea gown until he could draw the free arm out of the sleeve. She did not resist, being too terrified.
Mr. Howard soon had her neck, back, and bosoms naked down to the narrow small stays, for while he was about it he took the right arm out of the chemise sleeve as well and left her right shoulder quite bare.
Plenty of lovely white flesh was now exposed, but Mr. Howard's desires were such that he ruthlessly cut off the sleeve from the fastened up arm so as to lay bare everything above the top of the stays. He pulled the laced edges of the chemise carefully down all round and passed his hand over the soft warm skin of the trembling girl.
"You see," he remarked, "how easily I can enforce obedience no doubt you are feeling dreadfully ashamed at being uncovered by force in this way even down to your stays by a man, but you must remember that whenever I choose, I can go further and strip you just as much or as little as I like.-Now will you lift up your petticoats or not?" At this Miss Burke burst into tears and made no answer nor did she show any signs of obeying the shameful order.
Mr. Howard looked her over with sparkling eyes, her beauty and helplessness excited in him the most lascivious sensations.
He went to a draw and took out of it a very slim lady's riding whip, and coming to the side of the strapped up girl he laid it across the white skin of her back just above the stays. Miss Burke said nothing but continued to weep Mr. Howard brought the whip with care over the selected spot not very severely but enough to make a good smacking sound on the naked flesh.
The girl gave a howl of despair and began to pray for mercy abjectly, but Mr. Howard took no notice whatever of her cries and prayers while he laid the whip again across the naked back and brought a cut rather more severe than the first just above the scarlet mark it had left.
Miss Burke on receiving this cut arched her back in and thrust out her breasts in a wild contortion, and Mr. Howard seizing the moment of her utmost projection of her bosom lightly brought the little whip with a stinging flick over the two lovely hemispheres in front.
The girl must have been very sensitive there for she gave a shriek and then gasped for breath covering the spot with her free hand and covering away as far as her uplifted arm would permit.
Mr. Howard therefore seized her right hand and pulled it forcibly away from her breast while he brought a fresh severe cut over her back followed by another whisking flick over her dancing bosoms.
"I will let go your hand," he said, "as soon as you wish to use it as I ordered you."
Then he gave her another cut over the naked flesh first behind and then in front.
"Oh mercy! mercy!" the girl ejaculated at last, "I will obey you!"
Mr. Howard immediately let go of her hand, and coming in front of her sat down and said: "Now, if you please, pull up your petticoats gradually inch by inch so that I can enjoy the exposure of your legs to the fullest possible extent, if you do not follow my instructions immediately you will be whipped again only much more severely."
The girl now grasped her skirts at the knee and sobbing as if her heart would break began to lift them up exactly as directed, the white silk stockings come slowly into view encasing the most lovely ankles and calves, and having lifted enough to show the ends of the exquisite lace trimming on the drawers her modesty forced her to pause.
Mr. Howard waited a moment feasting his eyes on the neat little legs, then he said: "Go on please. I want to see the drawers" and he gave a playful cut with the whip round to the right calf just to remind her to be docile.
"Oh, don't whip me any more," cried the sobbing beauty, "then obey me quickly," said he, "higher up with the clothes steadily with no jerks."
The girl raises slowly up lifting the skirts gradually higher and exposing the pretty drawers which above the elaborate trimmings fitted almost tight over the girls splendid thighs, they were tied up the sides with light blue ribands and as the girl lifted her clothes right up over her face exposing herself almost up to her waist Mr. Howard gazed at the white surface which had no opening between the legs in front.
"Stand with your legs wide apart, please," said he, looking with cruel eyes at the tempting contour of her plump limbs, "your legs are really very sweet and pretty," said Mr. Howard, "but I must insist on your standing with your feet wide apart as such an attitude will make you feel even more ashamed thon you do already if that is possible and the more I can make you feel the utmost shame at the immodest things I make you do before me the more pleasure I shall experience at present I have only looked at your lovely thighs and even that has excited me tremendously but I think I really must also feel them."
With that he pulled his chair close up to her, saying: "Now, put your feet apart," only sobs came from the girl who so far from opening her legs screwed them tight together. "Are you going to obey me?"-he demanded-no answer but sobs. "Very well, you shall be whipped again and on the proper place."
Turning the girl forcibly round with her back to him, he raised her skirts all round her and with a strap round her little waist fastened them tight so that they were all bundled up exposing her from the band of the drawers downwards completely.
Her lovely plump behind had nothing over it but the tightly fitted silk drawers which showed the pink flesh through and rather added to, than lessened the indecency of her condition.
Everything being ready he took up again the little whip.
"Now, you shall have something to cry for," said he, laying it well across her ample posteriors. "Open your legs at once."
Crack went the whip over the tight silk. The girl cried and howled as though her heart would break, and put her free hand over her writhing bottom.
Mr. Howard promptly seized it and fastened it by the wrist in the middle of her back to the strap round her waist. Her cries and sobs seemed only to make him more cruel to the poor girl for he cried:
"Will you obey me and open your legs," and slashed the whip a drawing sweep across her shrinking bottom.
"Oh stop! stop!"
Slash! Slash!
"Oh! my God! Mercy! mercy!"
Crack! flick! swipe!
"Oh Lord stop and I will do it."
"Open them!" Slash! "Open them wider!"
Slash! Crack!
"There will that do! Oh mercy."
And she straddled her feet fully a yard apart.
Mr. Howard came and took his chair round in front and sitting down close to her laid this hand on her left knee and began slowly raising his hand up the inside soft surface of her lovely thighs feeling the flesh with his fingers deliberately.-The girl went on crying and sobbing but she kept her legs well apart until his hand at last reached he top and he calmly grasped her between the legs with his firm fingers.
"Don't dare move your feet," he remarked, passing his hand with slow insistence backwards and forwards between her thighs.
The girl was too distracted and upset by the whipping she had endured to experience anything but awful terror and shame.
Presently Mr. Howard untied one of the ribands that held the drawers tight up the out-sides of her thighs and getting his hand inside the drawers began to press one finger up into her front.
At this shocking outrage to her modesty the girl forgot everything but herself preservation and quickly brought her legs crossed over each other so as to resist the pressure of his hand.
"I am tired of your disobedience." he said, "and you shall now be properly fixed."
Fastening a broad strap round each of the girl's legs just below the knees which he attached to rings in the wall each side of the cabin with long straps he steadily forced her thighs wider and wider apart till she could hardly stand and a good deal of her weight was on her uplifted hand fastened to the ceiling.
The girls plump straddled legs would have roused the most lethargic man's lascivious feelings.
Her entire helplessness, her quivering shrinking movements, her heart breaking sobs and prayers indicating complete and utter subjection gave Mr. Howard the most exquite voluptuous delight. He feasted his eyes on her exposed beauties and felt her here and there to accentuate the indecency of his proceedings.
He reveled in the sense of absolute power over the lovely girl that her strapped up attitude gave him. He gave her a flick with the whip here and there not too severely but enough to elicit sharp screams from the weeping beauty.
"When you have got used to this" he said "and begin to lose your awful feelings of shame I shall stimulate them afresh by untying your drawers, and doing what I did before to you with my finger, and with your knees fastened wide apart you wont be able to do much to protect yourself now.
But I am going to expose your breasts first, as I have not properly explored your beauties".
Undoing the strap and temporally releasing her hand he quietly cut her petticoats off with a pair of scissors and cutting the laces of her stays took them clean off.
Mr. Howard drew the white silk down off her bosom, but her free hand came to protect her nakedness, so he quickly strapped it up by the wrist to the ceiling and returning to her left bosom stroked and moulded it with both his hands and at last kissed it with every mark of genuine admiration.
Without hurry he let the chemise fall till it lay across between her fastened knees.
He continued indecently stroking and feeling her lovely firm breast with every sign of voluptuous delight.
"Ask me to take off your drawers," he said presently but the girl only moaned and cried.
Mr Howard came behind her and laid the whip over the side of her body just below her arm so that the little tip of the whip reached her swelling bosom.
He gave her a light flick close under her arm so that the end of the whip cut into the upper part of her plump breast.
The girl seemed very tender there as she writhed violently sideways aud begged breathlessly for mercy but Mr Howard availing himself of her contortions dexterously whisked the whip across her naked body the other side striking the other bosom, distended tight with her strained attitude, right across its centre.
The girl gave a furious jump and began wildly struggling against her bonds, of course quite in vain, and the next moment the whip came crack over the opposite breasts.
Finding from her frantic writhing that the girl was very sensitive and that the naked skin of her breasts was so extremely tender, Mr Howard came round in front of her and began aiming deliberate cuts here and there slowly all over her large bosoms which in her helpless condition swayed and danced under the combined stimulus of forcibly stripes and her own contortions.
At last he stood at her side laid the whip touching her across both breasts.
"Now." he said, "do you wish me to whip you here with all my might because I am going to if you don't obey me at once!"
This decides the girl and with sobs and prayers she promised obedience.
"Very well," he said just flicking her playfully over the lovely flesh. "Say, please, Mr Howard, take off my drawers."
In a low voice she repeated the shameful request hanging her head down utterly subdued.
With one hand Mr Howard began to pull the bows down the side of her left thigh in front of him still giving her little cuts with the whip over her bosom.
Presently the leg next him flashed out naked as the silk fell away, then the whole garment tumbled to the floor leaving the rounded supple thighs and glorious bottom stark naked.
What a lovely expanse to whip he involuntarily exclaimed and the sight of so much beautiful rounded naked pink skin all helplessly at his mercy made him feel the utmost lasciviousness. He knew that he would be very cruel before he could forgo the exquisite temptation to inflict the utmost possible punishment she could endure. "It is extraordinary how much a girl can inflict stand if she is in good health," he said half to himself and he grasped the little whip and slashed it violently well across the girl's large posteriors.
The whistle of the flying whip and the horrible thwack into the soft flesh were followed by terrible screams and struggles of the firmly fastened victim.
He watched her jumps and sways with the utmost attention enjoying them immensely.
His sensations were so acute that he had to be very deliberate not to reach a Climax.
At intervals of about half a minute he delivered very cruel cuts again and again over her dancing bottom. Presently her crossed over and went on again from the other side.
The girl showed no signs of exhaustion but kicked and yelled violently after every stripe.
At last putting down the whip he took up another with a wisp of nettles on the end of it.
Coming straight in front of her he trust the nettles under the girl's chin at which, in a dreadful fright she threw back her head as far as she could protruding her lovely bosoms firmly out and up; Mr Howard whisked the nettles smartly this way and that over their extended surfaces.
She brought her head forwards again with a jerk but he soon forced her to renew her strained attitude pushing the nettles in her face till he got her head right back again when he again whipped her bosoms smartly with the frightful instrument.
Presently he thrust the nettles between her widely straddled thighs at which she stuck her front in and her bottom out as far as her bonds would allow.
Mr Howard now made no attempt to procure voluntary obedience, but being determined to have her loins well presented for attack from in front, he got a rope and attached it across the cabin against her behind to two rings which were both well in front of where she was fixed and by steadily tightening this rope he gradually forced her bottom in and her front out till she was in a curve with her loins far in advance of her feet and hands.
With her legs wide apart and her hands tight to the ceiling she presented the most abandoned and indecent spectacle possible.
"You never imagined said he when I began to punish you would ever get into such a position as that stark naked did you?" and he flicked her once more over the distended breasts.
The girl was now past doing more than emit choking sobs, no struggling or movement was possible, every muscle of her body being stretched tight. With the nettles in one hand he flicked her between her thighs while with the whip in the other he aimed smart cuts all about over white naked thighs watching the impotent quivering and jerks of her muscles.
At last he puts down the nettles and puts his hand between her legs with her body thrust extravagantly forward and help thus immoveable, the girl could do nothing to shrink away as he began to push his finger into her.
"Presently," he said, "I will have you properly but I mean to remove all possible obstacles first with my hands."
With a firm thrust he inserted one finger right into her, at which the girl seemed to be roused from her sobs to uttering frantic cries once more.
"That's only one finger," he remarked, "now you must bear two, and uniting the action to the word he pushed two fingers violently right into the girl."
Her shrieks were now redoubled, but
Mr. Howards's excitement was so great he became utterly reckless and after tearing through all obstacles with his hand he seized the naked victim round the waist and plunging into her had her with all the violence of the mad desires that the cruelties he had practiced upon the girl head roused in him.
CHAPTER III
After resting for a while Mr. Howard released Miss Burke and told her to put on her laced night dress and silk dressing gown.
In that charming costume he allowed her to recline on the divan while he rang for supper. An excellent repast of oysters and Champagne soon restored to Miss Burke her pink cheeks and to Mr. Howard his capacity for more enjoyment-and as soon as the stewards had again retired Mr. Howard felt his voluptuousness rising once more.
He was conscious that he had for the present moment exhausted the pleasures to be got from the mere enforcement of indecency upon the girl and from the outraging forcibly of her sense of modesty.
He knew that she would have to be treated with entire, respect for several days before herself respect would be sufficiently restored for her to afford him again the full delight that her moral subjection had given him that night and as he looked her over in the clinging white silk he knew that if he wanted more sensual excitement that night it would be necessary to punish her very severely.
The thought of the severity he intended quickly roused his passions and he addressed his lovely victim thus.
"Miss Burke, I have a mind to chastise you a little more before I go to bed or permit you to, but I dislike the sight of angry wails on white flesh, and if it were possible would always wish to, whip untouched thighs and posteriors-but I have no other girl available and therefore you must prepare for the whipping I intend for you in a manner that will present your flesh apparently unmarked.
White silk tights would show the wails through, but black ones would not, therefore you must take the black silk tights that you will find in that top drawer and put them on behind that screen at once. "Oh please. Sir," the poor girl exclaimed, "do not whip me any more."
"If you do not immediately do what I have ordered I shall have to enforce obedience with this," and he took a long hat pin and began pricking her legs with it through the very thin covering.
Miss Burke instantly sprang up and followed by Mr. Howard rushed across to the drawer he had indicated and seizes the black tights which pursued by Mr. Howard she took quickly behind the screen.
There Mr. Howard left her, saying "if you are not quick it will be the worse for you."
Presently she emerged with the white dressing gown on again over the tights.
The tights Mr. Howard had prepared for her were all in one piece from the shoulder straps to the feet and covered the body entirely excepting a deep V shaped gap between the bosoms in front and down the small of the back behind.
Mr. Howard ordered the girl to stand in the middle of the cabin against the stout rope which was still stretched across it tight at the height of the girl's loins.
Coming to her he unbuttoned the dressing gown all down the front next he put a small cushion between the girl and the rope and ordered her to bend down over the rope.
To four rings screwed into the floor in a square of about four feet he next proceeded to strap the girl's ankles and wrists, carefully arranging her attitude till she lay bent double over the rope with thighs and arms wide apart rigidly fixed.
He had not allowed any of the dressing gown to get between her body and the rope, so that he could immediately uncover the girl's whole body and legs by simply lifting the garment up over her bottom, and letting it fall over her head, which he did as soon as the straps were duly tightened up. Looking the girl over in her shinning black silk nudity he said to her.
"I intend now to chastise you very severely, as nothing less will now give me to the full the pleasure I intend for myself at your expense; and this is the best attitude for you to receive really excruciating punishment, as the low position of your head prevents you fainting; and of course with your bottom up and stretched tight in this way and your legs widely straddled, I can without undue exertion inflict the most intolerable punishment."
"Oh Sir! what have I done to deserve all this unspeakable treatment?"
"Nothing my dear Miss Burke but that makes it none less delightful to me to fix you helpless in indecent attitudes and to whip your lovely bottom and legs while you scream and struggle in vain." Mr. Howard now went to a draw and produced a leather slave whip which consisted of a short handle and a flat thong about a yard long tapering at the end to a point.
"This instrument," he remarked, "was invented in Virginia and has the merit of causing the most terrible pain without actually cutting or permanently injuring the skin," and he laid it over the tight black silk that covered her large posteriors without a crease.
The girl's attitude inflamed him as he raised the instrument over his head and brought is swiftly down across the protruding bottom.
The thong made a very loud crack over the elastic flesh and was followed instantly by the wildest cries for mercy, from the inverted girl, while the muscles of her thighs worked and jumped all of which Mr. Howard enjoyed to the full before inflicting another stroke.
Presently he took careful aim and swept the thong again fiercely down over the firmly help up bottom.
The tight rope swayed, the girl writhed and yelled again under this fearful cut.
Mr. Howard's eyes sparkled as he watched the impotent wriggles of the tortured girl and his lascivious sensations roused his cruelty to the utmost pitch.
He listened to the screams of the girl and gloated over her tightly bound figure.
He raised the thong and struck her over the shoulders making the tip of the instrument fall on the piece of while skin showing in the V shaped silk.
With a wild yell the girl arched her back in protruding her breasts to such an extent that they both slipped out of the silk in front naked.
Quick as thought Mr. Howard seized the little whip in this other hand and before the girl could bend back again he slashed the wicked instrument over the large bosoms with frightful severity.
The wildest howls and struggles followed this cut.
Mr. Howard began to feel the sensual results of this chastisement, and determined not to loose any of the pleasure by hurry.
He came round behind the girl.
"Now you shall feel this thong round your plump thighs Miss Burke," he said, "your struggles will be quite useless as your legs are so beautifully held apart, and the insides of your thighs being soft and sensitive should feel the stripes acutely. With that he brought the thong round the inside of her left leg half way up from the knees making it lick round with a resounding crack over the tight black silk.
The girl swayed and yelled and tried in vain to get her knees nearer together.
Mr. Howard waited a moment and then delivered a similar stroke over the opposite leg on its middle surface followed instantly by a fierce upward flick with the riding whip striking her well between the straddled thighs.
Her screams and contortions seemed only to nerve him to further cruelties as he aimed the thong alternately right and left higher and higher and more cruelly though without haste.
After every two or three strokes with the slave thong; Mr. Howard flicked the little riding whip up smartly between the widely separated thighs striking the unfortunate girl with exquisite skill and precision on the tenderest spot of her body.
Her sobs and cries only excited him more and more, and he continued to sweep the thong all over the tightly bent bottom and distended legs.
The black silk prevented any of the results upon the skin being visible and the lovely lines of her rounded limbs encased in the tight covering remained as tempting as ever after this most frightful whipping.
"I was afraid I should have to be very severe," said he, "during this second whipping," and he came round and stood between her fastened wrists and laid the thong straight along in front of him between the elevated cheeks of her splendid bottom so that the tip of the instrument just reached round to what lay between them.
"I am going to flog you now between your legs till the silk splits there," he said calmly, "after which you will have to receive me through the opening.
The girl only moaned and sobbed being too far gone to do more.
Mr. Howard flicked the little whip round her inverted body so as to inflict smart cuts on her naked breasts two or three times, and then raising the thong over his head he brought it with a fearful sweep down between the gaping thighs.
Fresh howls of despair came from the unhappy girl and she once more frantically tugged at her bonds to get free. Mr. Howard watched every twitch of her muscles with fascinated eyes, though he knew the terrible pain he was inflicting on the girl, her utter helplessness, and the abandoned attitude was stretched out in, made him so lascivious that he could not resist the extraordinary pleasure chastising her so relentlessly gave him.
His voluptuous sensations entirely overcame any feelings of pity or compassion he might otherwise have experienced and drove him to whip her with greater and greater severity.
He slashed the terrible thong again and again well in between her legs, now and then to give one arm a rest he cut into the same spot with the riding whip. At last after a tremendous cut with the whip the silk split apart and the scarlet tortured skin appeared.
Mr. Howard threw away the slave thong but retaining the whip he came round behind the girl and got between the widely separated thighs.
The whipping had rendered him quite ready for the last supreme outrage he now intended to perpetrate on his lovely victim.
With slow insistence he buried himself in the inviting spot rendered the more delectable by its bruised and lacerated condition although the poor girl after suffering so much did not make any efforts to resists and hung panting over the stout cable while Mr. Howard forcibly ravished her from behind.
Mr. Howard however thought she would give him more pleasure if she struggled and wriggled under him, so he began to strike her plump thighs with the whip first on one side then on the other while himself stood still enjoying the jerks and writhing she produced.
He determined that he would make her do all the motions needful to consummate his pleasure so he flicked the girl over the breasts, then over the shoulders alternately which caused acute writhing and contortions-then he whipped her smartly across the upper parts of her bottom close in front of him which made her open and shut violently the cheeks of her posteriors causing him delicious sensations, at last his own lascivious feelings forced him to assist her movements with ardent lunges of his own, and pushing furiously into her while he delivered fearful slashes round her naked bosoms he reached his culmination and lay over onto the tortured girl in a swoon of delight.
CHAPTER IV
For a whole fortnight after the events recorded in the last chapter, Mr. Howard treated Miss Burke with every consideration and respect: the yacht sailed all down the Mediterranean, and out at the Straits of Gibraltar and afterwards it headed for the Azores.
No one could be a more delightful companion than Mr. Howard when he chose and Miss Burke, after ten days had obliterated all marks of the whip upon her white skin, began to look back upon that dreadful evening as a sort of bad dream. After they had left
Gibraltar three days behind them and were in Mid Ocean, the fourth day out settled in a pouring wet day.
"During breakfast," Mr. Howard remarked, "I am afraid Miss Burke it is going to rain all day, so we shall have to stay down in the cabin, but with you to amuse me I dare say I shall find the time pass pleasantly enough." With the disappearance of the breakfast he closed and locked the door, and seating himself on a low chair with no arms he said shortly:
"Come here!"
Miss Burke came docilely and stood beside him, she was dressed in very light muslin and looked very pretty and fresh.
"Come and sit astride on my legs," said he, "facing me."
"Oh Mr. Howard," she whispered, "you have been so nice to me for so long now, I do hope you are not going to take advantage of my helpless position any more, on the yacht with you, please don't make me do anything indelicate."
"Perhaps you have forgotten what happens to you when you disobey me," he continued, "if not you had better do what I order at once."
"Oh, I will be obedient," said the poor girl, getting dreadfully frightened.
"Now," said he, "as you begin to argue with me instead of instantly obeying me, you must do something to please me as a punishment, so be good enough to stand in front of me and lift up your petticoats that I may see whether you have drawers on that open in the middle or at the sides."
"Quick!"
With a gasp of fright and misery the girl tremblingly came and stood meekly before her master and gracefully stooping she drew up her skirts till her drawers came in view Mr. Howard observed. "I see they do not fasten up the sides, now keep up the skirts and come and sit astride of me."
The girl timidly obeyed and sat quietly down astride of his legs about half way up from his knees.
With one hand round the girl he drew her nearer while with the other be removed all obstacles between her straddled thighs and himself. He slipped himself a little lower on the chair and lay back intending to enjoy the young lady's contact in the most approved manner.
As soon as he was in full and proper possession of her he said: "Please, uncover your pretty front that I may satisfy the sense of sight as well as that of touch."
And he lay back comfortably on the low chair while the girl began with trembling fingers and with many scarlet flushes to undo her dress: "Take both arms out of the sleeves and undo your stays."
The girl knowing what might happen to her if she disobeyed him proceeded silently to do what she was told.
"Take your arms out of your chemise sleeves and pull everything down off your breasts, please," said Mr. Howard and as the girl gradually fulfilled his immodest orders, Mr. Howard buried in her felt his voluptuous sensations rising to a delicious pitch.
As he gazed at the lovely expanse of snow white bosom, he said: "Now, Miss Burke, you are slowly to rise and fall upon me till I tell you to stop; and please lean a little forward so that I may feel and stroke your plump firm bosoms."
The girl implicitly obeys and begins to work up and down upon him, she even feels a certain dawning of lasciviousness herself as she sits firmly down upon him and experiences the firm penetration between her legs, while he squeezes her large breasts with both his hands. Presently, he says: "Now sit quite still upon me and pinch me, you must learn quickly all the devices for increasing my pleasure or I shall have to whip you into docility."
Natural instinct stimulated by fear made the girl immediately fulfill even this, to her, Strang command.
Mr. Howard half closed his eyes and said quietly! "Go on doing that it is very pleasant." The girl obeyed.
One beautiful girl reduced to absolute obedience is all that an Emperor can get in the way of sexual delight, and I am to-day therefore as good as an Emperor, and with that he drew the lovely girl down onto him and kissed her again and again, while with quiet inductions of her loins and firm muscular pinchings of his emblem of manhood she tried her best to please him to the utmost, for she thought to herself that is she could satisfy his lusts thus it was much better than being whipped and flogged and tortured as she had been a fortnight before.
Mr. Howard fully understanding what made her so anxious to excite him, said to her: "You see my flogging you has served two purposes firstly it was delightful to inflict chastisement upon you and secondly the fear of more such whippings has made you anxious to have me in the most lascivious manner possible in the hopes that by rousing my passions in the way you are now doing you will escape the whip."
She answered with an extra firm pressure of her warm body onto him.
"Will, for once," he said, "I will let you off the whip, but I am afraid it will only make me more cruel next time!"
"Oh, no" she murmured, "if I am always good you will never want to beat me any more and she kissed him and glued her loins to his with a wriggling thrust."
Mr. Howard stroked the plump thighs spread widely apart across his own and passed his hands up over her large bottom and grasping the distended cheeks of it in each hand assisted her movements to and fro and up and down.
He then made her sit quite still upon him and then undulate again, and so alternately she excited him and delayed the crisis for quite three quarters of an hour, when at last he said: "Finish!" at which the girl oscillated and rolled about upon him till at last he lay listless and satisfied with her soft body clasped close in his arms.
CHAPTER V
Mr. Howard rested, till luncheon time and sent Miss Burke to lie down also.
Both of them dosed till the meal was served and as soon as it was over and the long afternoon began, as it was still raining Mr. Howard felt inclined for a renewal of Miss Burke's subjection to serious punishment. He revolved in his mind all possible forms of chastisement and the most indecent methods of humiliating the girl.
Presently he said to her: "Miss Burke I intend to use you this afternoon for my pleasure to pass the time as it is raining, and I mean to subject you to the utmost humiliation I can devise as well as to inflict upon your pretty person some elegant and indecent flagellations fetch me from the top drawer the little riding whip and the longest birch you will find there and lay them by my side near the table."
"I am sure; you wont be cruel to me any more since you kissed me and were kind to .me this morning," she said gently as she went to the drawer and brought the two instruments and laid them by his side.
"My dear girl," he answered, "I own I am quite fond of you and in a certain sense I am full of compassion for you at having to undergo these whippings, I have given you and intend to give you, but the more I like you the more I love to chastise you, and the sensual delight I shall derive from whipping you severely will be immensely enhanced by my having had you and loved you this morning!"
To whip a stranger is not half exciting as to whip a girl one knows well and is really fond of. Now you must slowly strip to your chemise and drawers and then kneel here before me, and I advise you to do your utmost to rouse my passions by shoving yourself to me as indecently as you can."
The poor girl slowly obeyed, undressing herself before her master with many blushes but abject humility and then kneeling humbly before him in her semi naked condition.
"It is no use now refusing any order, I give you particularly since you voluntarily without any straps or coercions did with me such things this morning, so now before I whip you, you must do your best .to excite me with your little soft fingers, come! no hesitations," and he took the whip in his hand and gave her a light flick on the naked shoulder. "Oh, don't whip me! I will do anything!" she cried and began to undo his clothes and with nimble hands press and stroke him most daintily.
Mr. Howard lay back in his chair enjoying her dexterous titillations, which unfortunately made him long to inflict more humiliations upon her.
Taking her head between his hands he pressed her face down.
"Do it immediately, and as if you liked it!" he commanded.
Poor Miss Burke still hoped if she were sufficiently obedient, to escape the whip, which in her naked condition made her quake with apprehension, so she made no resistance and was soon employing lips as well as hands to excite her master as he lay enjoying himself.
Mr. Howard remained silent for quite a quarter of an hour while the girl continued her delicious provocations.
At last he sat up and said: "Do you feel more pain when I whip your bosoms or between your legs?"
"Oh dear! Sir, I don't know," said the poor girl.
Mr. Howard rose and ordered the girl to lie on her back on the broad divan. At intervals all round it the divan was furnished with iron rings fastened into its sides close to the floor.
Mr. Howard proceeded to fasten the girl's wrists above her head right and left to the top corners of the divan, then he went to the other end and strapped her ankles wide apart making her thighs form a right angle next to ensure perfect rigidity of the girl's body and legs, he added straps round the girl's legs just delow the knees which he drew up tight to rings opposite her waist on each side.
The girl was thus spread out on her back like a star-fish at her fullest stretch, arms and legs pulled wide.
Her bosoms were by this method of fastening thrust firmly up and out and protruded under the chemise most seductively Mr. Howard took a chair and sitting down comfortably beside his helpless victim pricked her here and there with a hat pin to see whether the straps held her too tight for any effective struggling.
The girl, in frantic terror, strained at her bonds with all her might, but although she bounded up and down raising her waist and loins off the divan in her contortions, the thighs remained perfectly distended and the arms and bust also.
Satisfied at last after various applications of the pin that the straps were efficacious, he unbuttoned the shoulder fastenings of the girl's chemise and with much feeling and rude moldings of the full breasts he gradually uncovered the lovely contours and exposed the panting girl naked down to the waist.
When satisfied with sight and touch of the exposed beauties under his hands and gaze he proceeded to untie her drawers and draw then gradually down exposing everything stark naked, when they would go no further down owing to the wide straddle of the girl's thighs, he cut them apart and gathered each piece tightly round the knees.
"I have cut your drawers in two Miss Burke," he remarked, "for fear they should interfere with the chastisement of your naked legs and body."
"Oh? I wish I could have died before I was treated in this awful manner," murmured the girl in a gasping voice.
"On the contrary," said he, passing his hand here and there over the helpless nakedness, "hitherto your life has been quite wasted and it is now for the first time being put to a proper use, could anything be more absurd than keeping so beautiful a figure as yours perpetually hidden away-your lovely flesh and seductive limbs are now for the first time being put to the proper use nature intended them for, namely the sensual pleasure of one of the opposite sex." With these word he took up a very thin and light riding whip and began giving the girl playful little flicks with it here and there all about over her white body and legs just hard enough to make her jump and wriggle and pull at her bonds, she panted and fluttered all over
no and begged him not to whip her so hard, but of course he paid no regard to her entreaties and continued dexterously whisking the little whip all about over the quivering girl walking slowly round the divan in order to visit every part of her naked skin with the vicious little cuts which grew gradually more and more severe.
At last when the poor girl was weeping bitterly with the pain he inflicted upon her he said: "It is now time to test the relative sensitiveness of your tenderest parts and with different implements; you will probably be too excited to report carefully during this trial but you can tell me afterwards where you felt the cuts most excruciatingly."
With that he stood over the bound down beauty and laid the whip between her wide stretched thighs patting the spot with it.
With frantic efforts the girl strove to close her legs but of course in vain, he watched her impotent efforts while he continued to pat her with the whip just hard enough to encourage her struggles. The whole situation roused his sensuality to its utmost extent, he gloated over the abandoned attitude of the girl, he watched her quivering muscles he listened to her sobs and cries with delight and at last lifted the whip over his head and slashed it relentlessly well in between her legs with a frightful cut.
The girl gave a shriek and banged her loins up and down, but the straps held her firmly in position. Sitting down, Mr. Howard laid the whip across her two plump breasts, which the stretch of her arms thrust upwards in the most tempting manner. He began to pat them as he had patted her below just hard enough to make the girl twist and writhe and dance her bosoms about. At last he raised the whip and swept it down with a rush across the lovely white heaps.
A perfectly delirious yell followed this fearful stroke and the girl exerting all her force managed to wriggle her body a little sideways.
Mr. Howard put down the whip and disregarding her cries and howls forcibly tightened up the straps that held her wide spread wrists dragging her to the utmost stretch of her arms, heal so pulled up the knees traps another hole.
"Your struggles are most rebellious and impertinent," said he, "and your screams quite useless, you will be whipped very severely in this tempting attitude till I am tired."
And he slashed the whip again across both of her protruding breasts with fearful swiftness.
The unhappy victim dashed her body up and down off the divan in a paroxysm of agony and emitted choking sobs, but without a moments delay Mr, Howard took careful aim and swiped the awful whip up between her legs with all his might. His sensuality had for the moment entirely got the mastery of him and he gave his lust full sway regardless of all consequences.
The lovely naked girl bound down on her back in utter helplessness, with limbs stretched apart to their utmost limit made him quite deaf to her cries for mercy and he gave a full vent to the voluptuous sensations his chastisement of her afforded him.
Her yells and bounds only excited him to strike harder and harder, her helpless subjection to the fearful whipping over her most tender and private parts brought him to the highest pitch of sexual pleasure and he determined to go on punishing the girl as long as the retained consciousness.
Without hurry he waited a little to allow her to recover somewhat from these terrible cuts, filling up the time with applications of a switch of nettles all about her naked body and limbs which kept her twitching and writhing.
He whisked the nettles this way and that between her elastic breasts which oscillated under the strokes in the most tempting manner, then be flicked the insides of her full thighs and slashed the nettles again and again up between them. At last he seized a long slim birch and prepared for a final relentless flogging.
This way and that he brought the terrible birch across her bounding bosoms upwards, downwards, and across from side to side torturing every inch of the rebounding surfaces.
The girl once more shrieked and dragged in vain at her bonds while Mr. Howard transferred the strokes to the inviting gap between her wide held thighs. At last kneeling over her face and stooping till his own face was between her legs, he ordered her to receive him in her lovely mouth, while with the hat pin placed with its point against her most sensitive spot between her thighs he pressed it into her soft and quivering person to enforce obedience and extract from her the utmost provocation of his lust that her lips could afford him.
In this combination of sexual excitement Mr. Howard after about five minutes reached the final and exquisite consummation.
CHAPTER VI
Before finally shaping the yacht's course for home Mr. Howard steered back into the Mediterranean and on towards Batoum as he had learnt at the Azzores that the kurds were desolating Armenia once again and bringing their captives down to Batoum to sell to the Pachas there ; and Mr. Howard had a mind to see what he could pick up there.
On his arrival at Batoum with his usual luck he lighted on a far more interesting adventure than he anticipated.
The kurds, he learnt from his dragoman, had had the audacity to attack an American mission and had killed the clergy in it and had carried off the chief missionary's young daughter and brought her to Batoum where she had apparently disappeared. The Turkish authorities believed that no one had survived but as a fact the dragoman had discovered that the girl had on the very morning of the yacht's arrival been secretly sold to the Governor of the town and conveyed to his harem.
Everything can be done in the Sultans dominions with cash, and Mr. Howard by means of careful bribes, got himself admitted into a hidden gallery of the harem where he hoped to be a witness of the young lady's forcible deflowering by the Governor who was a man known for his ungovernable passions.
The old woman who had charge of this harem took Mr. Howard princely payment and brought him where he could see the girl awaiting her fall. On looking down through a grating he could see stately Miss Penelope Grant fastened with straps to one of the pillars of the hall. She wore a smart blue serge sailor suit tight fitting and saucy looking, that showed off the contours of her rounded beautiful figure to perfection. She was evidently in a great fright, and her color came and went as she watched the door anticipating the entrance of her terrifying Lord and master. Reclining about on divans and cushions were the other ladies of the harem, all of them arranged in nothing but the one costly silk garment that displayed rather than concealed every line of their shapely limbs and bodies, and which to a voluptuary such as Mr. Howard rendered them more seductive to look at than if they had been absolutely naked. They were all chattering away and apparently criticizing the new arrival with some fiercely when the door suddenly was flung open and the Governor entered.
He was a large swarthy man powerfully built with the fixed inscrutable face of his race. No sooner did Mr. Howard look at him and Miss Grant together than he felt, instead of enjoying the spectacle of her ravishment by him, he would do anything to prevent it and to secure such a treat for himself.
However he remained motionless watching. Going up to the girl the Governor addressed her in fairly good french, and asked her whether she was not glad to be his mistress rather than have left her bones in the mission house. The girl replied in the same language that she was glad she had not been killed but that she would never be to him in the shameful relationship he suggested.
The Governor looked at her quietly and said. "Do you know what will happen to you il you fail to please me in every way I demand of you?"
"I suppose you will get rid of me" she said in a low voice.
He smiled a slow evil smile and said "I will show you what will happen to you".
Turning to the girls who at his entrance maintained a respectful silence, he gave some short quick orders in Arabic. "Instantly half a dozen of the girls seized one of the most beautiful of their companions and brought her the carpet face downwards, in front of Miss Grant, and stretched her upon
Others of the girls came and pulled the single
m silk garment up over her legs bottom and back leaving the dazzling white flesh stark naked from the neck down. Three girls then grasped each wrist and ankle firmly and awaited further commands.
"This is what will be done to you Mademoiselle and I beg you to watch carefully all that I do and imagine it done to yourself, it will I hope lead you to chose an obedient attitude.
The Turk now placed one foot on the prostrate girl's naked back and drew from under his cloak a dog whip with a long lash.
He looked at the splendid bottom with settled cruelty and with deliberation lifted the whip above his head and swept it across the lovely posteriors.
A piercing cry came from the unhappy slave who struggled with all her might to get away but of course quite in vain.
Miss Grant turned deadly white as she watched the extraordinary scene, she gazed at the naked girl and the red mark over her white bottom which instantly appeared after the frightful cut and her breathing indicated intense excitement.
"How would you like to be whipped like that", said the Turk imperturbably. But Miss Grant's voice failed her and she could make no reply.
A fresh command in Arabic was followed by the girls who held her ankles drawing them steadily and forcibly apart as wide as they would go you shall have some cuts like this one if you don't humble yourself" said the Turk and he brought the knotted lash of the whip with a whistling slash right up between the wide straddled thighs of the helpless girl.
The horrible thud of the whip as it licked into the poor slave's most tender spot was followed by fresh screams and impotent writhing and Miss Grant's eyes seemed to be fascinated by the extraordinary spectacle. She trembled all over and licked her lips but said nothing. Mr. Howard found his own lascivious sensations rising to the highest pitch and he recognized in the Turk a perfect Master of the art of chastisement. "You shall have thirty cuts like that one and administered in the same way on the same spot if you do not please me" the Turk continued. The slave girl howled and sobbed and the Turk gazing at her white form and removing his foot from her back gave some further orders, at which three or four more girls joined those already holding the victim, and four of five seized each of the girl's legs between the foot and the knee and lifted her bodily up till only her elbows remained on the ground, having got her well up they gradually parted her inverted thighs till they were very much distended.
The Turk standing at her head laid the lash of the whip into the exposed region, Miss Grant watched the proceeding with startled eyes her bosom heaved with gasps of excitement mingled with her feelings of terror at such things ever being done to herself as she was witnessing, there was rising unbidden in her nature a subtle sympathy with the lascivious sensations she was certain were dominating the Turk, though she was very sorry for the poor slave girl her chastisement certainly was very exciting to watch! And when the terrible whip was raised and brought with a fearful drawing slash right into the victims most secret parts she forgot to be sorry for her in the overwhelming sensations the sight and sound produced in herself. She listened to the screams of the girl and watched the frantic efforts she made quite ineffectively to kick herself free with glistening eyes.
When you have had two dozen cuts like that "said the Turk to her" you shall be whipped over your breasts as you will now see this pretty piece of property and he gave orders to the girls, who put their victim down turned her over on her back and pulled her clothes well up under her chin a hard boister was placed under her shoulders, her arms, and legs pulled out to their utmost stretch, and her head forced back by one the girls pulling with both hands under her chin.
The large and beautiful breasts were thus thrust violently and firmly out and the Turk laid the lash of the terrible whip across the dazzling white heaps of flesh, Miss Grant said nothing but her excitement was manifest, it was clear that she would not have stopped the whipping if she could and indeed all the girls seemed to be sensually influenced by the strange scene.
No one paid any attention to the cries for mercy of the helpless naked beauty held down by overwhelming force indeed by dragging at her pinching her tender flesh they seemed to like to add to her sufferings and the girl who held her chin effectually prevented her opening her mouth so that when once stretched out immovably the slave girl could only give effect to her feelings by smothered groans.
The Turk drew the lash slowly across the snowy heaps of the girl's distended bosom two or three times so that she might feel it and fully realize her abject helplessness under his power.
Miss Grant watched the wicked lash moving over the tightened flesh with sparkling eyes, her own bosom heaved and fell and she again licked her lips.
At last the Turk raised his hand, all the girls gripped the prostate victim and pulled her even tighter to meet the stroke as it descended with a shrill whistle and cut with a loud crack right across the lovely expanse just above the little pink centers.
The girl could only grind her teeth in her agony and emit sounds through her nose, a bright scarlet line came instantly upon the ivory flesh, and a little spot of blood on her side just beyond the breast where the knotted end of the lash had bit into the skin. The muscles of her legs and arms could be seen moving with her hopeless efforts to move which were met with overwhelming resistance by the eager girls who now seemed to have lost all sense of pity in the sensuality of the scene.
The Turk took a bunch of holly on the end of a switch and addressing Miss Grant said.
"And if you venture to struggle against your captors or your bonds like this naught slave you shall have a taste of this punishment" and he dashed the holly between the girls naked thighs, once, twice, thrice ordering the girls to widen her legs, between each application of the terrible instrument. The last of which penetrated well into her and must have caused excruciating pain.
By this time Miss Grant was becoming dazed with intensity of her sensations, and was emitting little gasps and sighs of voluptuousness which she was quite unable to control. The Turk resumed the dog whip and again drew it gently across the victims distended elastic breasts, the girl's groans were now intense and continuous, but no one heeded them, presently the whip was again raised and brought with all the strength of the powerful Turk's arm right across both breasts this time over their lower surfaces again he raised it and with all his force swept it down across the exact centers of both bosoms.
"Perhaps Mademoiselle" remarked the imperturbable Turk "now you have witnessed how I shall treat you if you refuse voluntarily to submit yourself to me as one of my harem, that it would be as well also to show you what submission to me really will mean, for I do not imagine that in the sacred mission house from which you have been so opportunely removed you ever had an opportunity of witnessing the putting of your inferior sex to its only serviceable use.
With that he turned to the slave girls and gave some further orders as a result of which the already agonized girl was prepared in the following way. The hard bolster was shifted down from under her shoulders to under her bottom, her ankles and wrists were fastened firmly to four rings let into the polished floor beyond the carpet on which she lay. Her knees were additionally stretched wider apart with straps to other rings in the walls each side of the hall. When all the cords and straps were pulled tight so that the girl lay extended on her back with arms and tights at the fullest and widest possible stretch. The Turk took the holly switch and pricked her naked body and limbs here and there with it to see whether any struggling could alter her abandoned posture and when quite satisfied he threw it away and all the girls retired from the hall leaving the three alone there. Miss Grant's hands were fastened behind her back to the pillar but she was otherwise free and from certain involuntary movements of her legs and body Mr. Howard thought he could detect signs of sensual feelings in the girl as the Turk stooped down and thrust his fingers rudely into the helpless slave whose widely held thighs seemed to invite such liberties.
The prostate girl now only sobbed softly and lay unresisting with her loins held well up by the bolster under her bottom. The Turk now got between the naked legs and lay out upon the protruding loins, he coolly grasped her large naked breasts in his hands while he pushed firmly into her below, soon his own thighs were undulating steadily and forcibly as he dug firmly well into the lovely slave. Miss Grant watched with bright eyes every movement of the Turk as he ravished the girl fastened so lubriciously for his purpose. Her own thighs unconsciously undulated in time with his thrusts as she pictured in her imagination what her own sensations would be if she were bound tight on her back with arms and legs dragged wide apart, while a man did to her what the Turk was doing to his slave. No horror could exceed that for he was almost as black as a negro, and the more dreadful it seemed for such a thing to be done to her the more she found she enjoyed in some strange way witnessing it being done to another.
She was discovering the subtle but fundamental difference between seeing another whipped cruelly and ravished by a black man and being so ravished oneself.
The Turk at last reached his destination, and rising from his delicious pastime told Miss Grant he would return in an hour and receive her decision.
The girls carried away their poor companion Miss Grant was left alone tied to the pillar.
With their departure Miss Grant had time to lose all sensations but one of horrible fear of being subjected to what she had witnessed.
Mr. Howard acted with his usual decision, he got the duenna to take him immediately down to the floor of the Hall, and on his appearance Miss Grant gave a low cry of astonishment. "Have you come to save me" she gasped. "On certain terms, yes" he replied. "Terms." She answered "what do you mean, Sir?"
"If you will sign this little agreement I have just drawn up I will take a great risk and endeavor to smuggle you away on my yacht which is lying in the harbor, shall I read it?" and he produced a sheet of paper and read as follows.
"In consideration of Mr. Howard's assisting me to escape from the harem of the Governor of Batoum, I agree when rescued to submit to any treatment he may subject me to physically as well as morally, for a period of five years, from the date of my escape, I undertake to make no complaint of his treatment of me to any living person ever at any time, and to refuse even to speak of it at any time to any living person, and Mr. Howard on his part agrees to inflict no permanent injury upon me during those five years."
"What do you mean to do to me?" whispered Miss Grant in an over struck voice-
"Whatever pleases me" he replied with perfect candor," but you need not enter into the agreement unless you like, and you can remain where you are in the kind hands of the Governor of Batoum you are already believed in Europe to be dead, and whether you stay or come with me you will not reappear for some time in polite Society. Come decide! Perhaps you have taken a imagine to the Turk."
"Oy my God! was ever poor girl so situated, will you not have pity on me, and rescue me without these terrible conditions?"
"No Miss Grant I will not: remember I run great risk and must spend great sums of money to effect your removal to my yacht, and as I do not trust your gratitude I mean to secure myself adequate reward in advance."
The duenna here showed signs of anxiety, and in a paroxysm of fright the girl said she would sign the agreement. Mr. Howard therefore released her from her pillar and with the document duly signed quickly arranged the transference of the girl to the yacht dressed in an old gaberdine of the duenna's with her face entirely veiled. When on board Mr. Howard ordered, Miss Burke to remain in her cabin for the evening, as he intended Miss Grant to believe that there was no other woman in the yacht but herself.
The yacht immediately weighed anchor and by dinner time was many miles on her way to the Golden Horn.
Mr. Howard look forward with keen pleasure to the sensual feast he had secured for himself, for Miss Grant being tall and splendidly developed promised to be a most exciting subject for subjection, humiliations, and chastisements. She appeared at dinner in a low cut silk dress that displayed more than it concealed of her rounded attractions, she had only put it on at all because Mr. Howard had said to her in authoritative tones, "you will dress for dinner please in the dress you will find laid out in your state room!" And she had been afraid to disobey. When they were left alone Mr. Howard looked her over with greedy eyes and said "Miss Grant your beautiful neck and shoulders are amply displayed to-night and I am glad that I and not that filthy Turk has got possession of so much tempting white flesh, it also affords me the utmost delight to anticipate all the liberties I am going to take with your lovely person to-night and any other night when I choose for the next five years; please come round here and kneel on this cushion by my side I want to see all that expanse of uncovered skin quite close. The girl panted and gripped her handkerchief in her hand in blank terror but did not move."
"Oh please don't do dreadful things to me to-night, not to-night."
"Miss Grant come here instantly; if you do not I will show you how I treat disobedience forthwith."
Pale as death the girl rose and came to his side trembling with fright. "Kneel down" he commanded sternly and she knelt on the cushion. "Put your hands behind your back." She obeyed, her very low dress showed her large firm breasts, heaving quickly up and down with her pants of terror.
Mr. Howard shifted his chair and got her body between his knees one knee pressed her hands against her back the other pressed her waist in front.
Taking her chin rudely in one hand he thrust the girl's head back bending her backwards forcibly from the waist, with the other hand he felt the white flesh of her neck enjoying its cool smoothness then he deliberately pushed the small sleeve straps down off her shoulders to her elbows, but before he had uncovered the bosoms more than this slipping of the shoulder straps revealed, she got her hands round and was holding the slight covering up.
Mr. Howard was apparently prepared for this for he produced two wrist straps from his pocket and twisting her arms with a powerful grasp soon had the hands fastened together behind. Once more holding back the girls chin with one hand and with the other on the upper half of her voluptuous right breast he remarked. "To explore and stroke the front of a loving girl who invites such dalliance is a pleasure, but it is not so delicious as to uncover and rudely treat the breasts of an unwilling victim who helpless and in ones power is obliged to submit." With a jerk up of her chin and a rough tug down of the dress Mr. Howard now laid bare the two heaving panting bosoms between his knees. He rudely pushed them up and down, jerked them this way and that admiring their firm elasticity. With her hands tied she could not get away or prevent what he was doing. She was already frightened out of her wits and began to cry hysterically.
"You have the largest and finest bosoms I have ever felt", said he still grasping them indecently this way and that, and if your bottom corresponds I shall indeed have a treat in store for me bye and bye."
Presently he took little rosy centre of her right bosom in his finger and thumb and began to pinch it gently at first then gradually harder "How wasted" said he "were such ripe beauties as yours in a missionary's establishment", and he gave her a cruel pinch.
The tortured and terrified girl at this managed to writhe away and get to her feet after which she cowered away sobbing and struggling to free her bound hands.
Mr. Howard went over to her, seized her tied and fastened them a hook in the wall, but as she still stooped forward striving to hide her naked breasts he put a broad band round her little neck and fastened her head up to another hook so that she was forced to a bolt upright position.
"Perhaps you are not aware" said he "that I witnessed the whipping of the slave girl as well as you at Batoum and I have not forgotten though you may have, that you certainly enjoyed the spectacle of that girl's sufferings, you did not know that I was watching you or you would no doubt have not so clearly displayed your naughty pleasure. I am now beginning to experience the pleasant though no doubt reprehensible sensations you and the Turk indulged in during that girl's chastisement. I am now going to indulge those feelings to the full, and shall begin by undressing you and uncovering your beauties without haste and by degrees."
The helpless girl was now quivering all over and crying quite hysterically, she kept her eyes shut so as not to see her own shame as Mr, Howard untied her skirts and drew them down to her feet and then cut the laces and pulled off the small stays.
In her chemise, drawers, white silk stockings and shoes, the pretty girl stood fastened up the picture of tempting womanhood.
Her arms fastened downwards behind her back the sleeves of the chemise slipped down below her elbows and the loose garment fell down in front to her waist leaving her glorious front stark naked in all its voluptuous contour.
Mr. Howard unbuttoned the shoulder straps and let the chemise fall entirely to the ground with the skirts, only the drawers remained, they were of white silk and filled her full thighs almost tight and were buttoned up the outsides of the legs with no other openings.
Mr. Howard with one hand stroking her naked breasts proceeded with the other to feel the firm flesh of the girl's thighs all round.
At this last outrage on her modesty the sobbing girl screwed her legs tightly over each other to prevent his hand getting between them to feel their inside surfaces.
"Open your legs" said he but she did not obey, Mr. Howard without undue haste proceeded to twist two rings attached to screws into the floor, about a yard each side of the girl's feet, and to these rings he fastened her ankles with straps tightening them up alternately and irresistibly till her feet were quite four feet apart.
This tightened the band round her neck till she was stretched tight from chin to heel.
Her appearance was now enough to rouse the sensuality of St. Anthony, every inch of her lovely plump body and legs were strained in the most exposed attitude naked but for the tight drawer.
Mr. Howard came to her side and with one hand began to feel and squeeze the large expanse of her plump bottom while with the other he wandered all over her legs in front and began administering little wicked pinches to the softest parts of her flesh between the widely straddled limbs high up. Then changing his treatment he pressed his hand in front firmly up between the open legs while he began to prick her soft bottom making her writhe forward.
The girl still wept hysterically and kept crying "Oh! stop! stop! don't do that, oh! will no one help me or rescue me! Oh! what shameful degradation, oh! spare me, spare me!".
But Mr. Howard enjoying her awful sense of shame continued his rude and outrageous pinchings of her tenderest and most private spots.
"I remember" said he taking up a lady's riding whip and looking with sparkling eyes at the tempting plump thighs" that you took a great interest in the cuts that poor girl got here "and he touched her with the whip between her legs" oh! for God's sake don't do it! don't do it!! screamed the now frantically terrified victim.
"Seeing and feeling are no doubt no different things" he replied patting her with the whip gently then a little harder then rather harder still.
"Does that hurt very much?" with a harder pat. "Oh yes! oh yes!! oh no harder for God's sake! I can never endure it! I shall die." A harder cut followed at which she howled again and her whole frame jumped.
"That's not a hard cut" said he "you shall now have a real cut on your leg" and he delivered a really severe stripe over the front and inside of her left thigh half way down." I can't see the effect there he said "I will try on a naked part" and he gave her a smart flick over the lower half of her left bosom.
The wildest shrieks now filled the cabin as Mr. Howard cut her again and again over the thighs and bosoms alternately.
Suddenly he put down the whip for a moment and began unfastening the drawers "you shall have something to scream about now" said he as the girl's thighs flashed out suddenly naked under his hands.
Seizing the terrible whip and utterly deaf to her mad yells he aimed cut after cut up into the widely exposed gap between her lovely legs.
Every muscle of her splendid body grew rigid with the agony of the frightful whipping.
Relentlessly Mr. Howard delivered slash after slash into her quivering now bleeding tenderest place. He seemed to forget everything but his furious lust, and at last with a dash at her he seized her round her loins and began to ravish the helpless frantic screaming girl who fixed as she was could offer no possible resistance. When once in possession of her he plunged wildly up into her while his unsatiated sensuality was provoked by smacking her breasts biting her ears, boxing her ears and tormenting her in every possible way till his sensations were utterly satisfied.
No sooner had Mr. Howard satisfied his passions to the full than he proceeded to devise means of rousing them again at once; he unfastened the girls neck and feet and with her hands still fastened behind her he brought her to the end of a stout table and made her lay her body down upon it; next he untied her hands, and strapped each wrist at wide stretch above her head to the top corner legs of the table upon which he had previously spread a black railway rug, her bottom he arranged to come just to the edge of the table and then with cords to rings in the ceiling he fastened up her ankles drawing up each foot so that her legs were held wide apart and her knees a little bit higher from the floor than her bottom.
In this attitude all the naked back and bottom and thighs to the knees were spread out before him at the convenient height of the table, and from a little below her waist she was clear of the table, the weight of her thighs being upon the cords that held her ankles up in the air: this left her thighs open to chastisement in front as well as behind and all round, the seat of pleasure was held open to attack from above or below.
Her white flesh was practically untouched from the nape of her neck to her garters, and her beautiful figure afforded Mr. Howard the greatest delight as he once more took up the little whip.
The girl lay silent but panting with the tremendous effect of her recent treatment. Mr. Howard laid the whip over her loins just where two exquisite dimples showed above the large heaps of i her voluptuous posteriors and said "now Miss Grant I am going to administer a really severe whipping and I intend to excite myself by being deliberately cruel to you now, and by inflicting cuts that will be absolutely intolerable." And as the girl began to cry out. "Oh for God's sake spare me now and let me off any more till to-morrow", he raised the wicked whip and cracked it fiercely down over the lily skin. The girl gave a jump and a yell and began tugging at her bonds and writhing about trying to kick her legs about.
"Keep your legs still" said he striking quickly with the whip first downwards and then from below upwards over the wriggling legs. The girl made frantic efforts to turn this way and that but she could do little to alter her position and being naked no attitude could shield her from the sweep of the whip as Mr. Howard warming to his work slashed away over the bounding bottom and twisting thighs alternately.
The girl's strength and endurance seemed astonishing after all she had been through and her delirious screams and wild struggles and contortions excited Mr Howard so much that he whipped harder and harder cutting the white flesh into scarlet wails in all directions.
When all her large bottom was a mass of lines and her plump thighs striped a round with the brilliant mark of the elastic lash, Mr. Howard deaf to her heart breaking sobs and cries whisked the tip of the whip with fearful swiftness into the gap between her thighs alternately from above and below, again and again. The girl raised her bottom somehow up and down in her wild paroxysm dashing it down and up as each frightful cut struck her full on the selected spot, at last Mr. Howard once more got between her legs and roughly ravished the now bleeding panting victim, whipping her back and sides with undiminished cruelty in order to impart provocative jerks and bounds to her body until he was for a second time satiated, and at last fairly satisfied and exhausted.
The next morning Mr. Howard allowed the two girls to meet in his presence and after breakfast he took them to his private cabin and told them that they were always at liberty to be together as long as he was present, but that if ever they spoke to each other or were even discovered in each others company behind his back they would both be very severely punished.
This command was sufficient to afford him plenty of opportunities of chastising the young ladies during the voyage home, and Mr. Howard exhausted his ingenuity in inventing attitudes and contortions in which to fix the beautiful girls while they were whipped.
On reaching England he took them both to Bath and handed them over to Maud and Alice. As they were both well educated they were each assigned a class in the school to teach and very soon learnt that if they wanted to preserve their own bodies from exposure and from the whip the best way to do it was to set down continually plenty of black marks against the most lady-like and modest and attractive girls in their classes ensuring their appearance in the gymnasium for punishment by Mr. Howard. From long experience Mr. Howard had learnt that if girls are subjected to the whip for mere purposes of voluptuousness, through they may never cease dreading it, they quickly come to take pleasure in inflicting it upon others and in witnessing their humiliation and punishment.
He also learnt that a secret sense of the sensuality of the whole thing is always sufficient to secure their absolute silence among the general world.
With great cleverness he always allowed the grown up ladies in his power to whip the girls themselves now and then until they clearly betrayed the sensual pleasure they derived from administering the chastisement, a pleasure they might never have experienced had they not first been used themselves to rouse his passions; but when once they had allowed him to witness and observe the delight they felt in inflicting punishment to girls stripped and fastened tight before them, he took care to explain to them that by their own open sensuality they deprived themselves of any defense against their being similarly flogged themselves by him.
The requirements of the master were studied by the four elder young ladies in every conceivable manner; no refinement of lovely underclothing was too lubricious for the pretty pupils no arrangement too elaborate for their gradual denudation before him, or for their preparations as to attitudes and contortions of body and limbs, and while he chastised them now elegantly, now with whistling stripes over the rebounding flesh every artifice was resorted to, to stimulate his voluptuous pleasure to the highest pitch and prolong it to the must duration. Surely never before was refined and artistic sensuality carried to so consummate a pitch.
