Chapter 3
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.