Chapter 1

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.