Chapter 2
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Dinner over and the stewards withdrawn Mr.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.