“What do you think of my friend?” I asked, alone with delicate winsome Lucy in the carriage.
“She suits me. I like her. She seems quite expert in birching games and somewhat resembles my absent chum.”
“You'll soon be able to sample her skill,” I replied. “I don't think you'll have anything to grumble about.”
Time passed and Miss Rosey did not return. What could she be about in that house? I knew she was not a gossip. Perhaps the rods were not ready, or did not please her, and she was having them re-made?
“Suppose we go up in the elevator, and see what has become of her?” I proposed to Miss Lucy.
“Wait a few minutes more,” said Lucy, “we're all right here-comfortably seated and watching the people go by.”
Her face was flushed. She wsa under the influence of our bountiful repast, washed down by heady wines.
We had been seated in the carriage a good half-hour, when Miss Rosey reappeared at last, lively, merry, very agitated, and her eyes sparkling. She was followed by a young girl carrying a big paper parcel.
Our coachman whipped up his horse. Miss Rosey leant back on her cushioned seat and burst out laughing.
“You'll never guess what I did upstairs in that house! No, it's too funny for words! I've just cut a man's bum to ribbons!”
“The deuce you have! Tell us about it,” I said, vastly amused.
“It's perfectly true,” said Miss Rosey. “I had begged my friend to prepare me some good rods and a riding- whip, thinking that she ought to be a judge of these articles, as her husband is a lover of flagellation. She whips him daily with bundles of birch, which she prepares herself with great care. It appears that when her hubby heard that a flogging lady was coming to fetch birch-rods from his place, he worked himself up into such a state that he swore he should die if he wasn't birched there and then by me. My friend did not want to refuse him this favour, for a reason that she told me later, so she begged me to accede to her husband's wish, and give him a sound correction immediately. I accepted with pleasure. 'I pray you, dearie,' said she, 'flog him till the blood comes. Hit him with all your might and don't leave off till he is well wealed. You'll be doing me a great favour. I want to cure him of the habit he has of desiring to be whipped by every fresh female flagellant he hears of-as if his own wife wasn't sufficient for him!' she had got ready two special tickle-tobies, very ling, and made of tough, resisting branches. They had been all night in vinegar to make them still more formidable.
“The chap was already tied down on a bench when I went in, and my friend, leaving me alone with her liege lord, told me not to spare him. You may guess how I let myself go, enjoying the treat, and rendering a service to my jolly pal. So long as there remained a sound bit of wood on the two rods, I slashed away like a mad thing, putting in all my energy, quite reckless, and tearing all the skin off his backside. His wife came back at the finish, and while I got my breath, gave him, as a wind-up, ten cuts with the whip. She dealt them with real rage. Oh, I've had a royal old time! I'm quivering all over with naughtiness. I feel quite lewd!”
“My dear girl,” said I reproachfully, “if you wear yourself out like this, what will be left for us?”
“Don't you worry,” answered the adorable creature, squeezing my hand in her firm grip. “You'll both be properly treated, I swear it!”
A few minutes more and we entered my discreet flat, which had witnessed my delicious games, when I kissed Miss Rosey's wee tootsies.
The first thing we did was to open the packet containing four splendid rods, long and flexible; a lithe lady's riding-whip, and some silk rope for binding victims. Miss Rosey had taken an extra rod for Lucy.
“Now I'm going to settle accounts with Miss Farman,” said Rosey, with a malicious little wink.
“as for you, my old boy-off you go into the next room, where you'll be locked in. for you to assist at the unveiling of all kinds of pink and white hidden beauties, or to allow you to be a witness of certain subsequent mysterious proceedings would be too indecent. So try and be patient, without a word of complaint. Your turn will come next, and you'll get complete satisfaction.”
The door of communication ws shut in my face. I was at the keyhole at once, but the key, remaining in the lick, prevented me seeing anything at all. I tried to push the obstacle back with my penknife, but wary Rosey, guessing what I was about, scolded me through the door and hung a towel over the key.
All I could do ws to press my ear to the panel. There was a long silent pause to begin with. Then I heard garments rustling and falling, followed by the hissing of the birch and the swish of the twigs on plump flesh. In my mimd's eye, I conjured up the image of the young girl whose lovely round globes were quivering under the ardent contact of the rod. Soon, slight groans and tender signs rent the air. The rode stopped its regular “click, clack” for a few minutes, and then the birching sport went on again.
I gasped for breath as I hearkened to the noise of the elastic branches still continuing, and I fretted childishly, stamping my feet like some caged animal. The rod flogged, crashed, and swept resonantly over a darling invisible rump; while the swish of the birch ws accompanied by tiny shrieks, uttered in a shrill treble. There was a long swooning sigh and then complete silence.
The door opened at last.
“Come, my dear friend,” said Miss Rosey. “You who can appreciate the beauty of a female foot, look at those ravishing baby toes! Kiss them!”
I went in and saw Lucy, half-naked, on the tumbled bed. Her cheeks were suffused with blushes of shame and there were tears in her eyes. Her splendid legs were quite bare, and she had delicate, small feet, short and fat, exactly like those of an infant. My lips pressed every one of her wee toes, rounded and well-shaped, with their nails like pink pearls.
My gluttonous allegiance was interrupted much too soon by Miss Rosey who sent me back to the other room, so as to allow Lucy to get dressed.
I was frantically impatient to be alone with my sweet flogging lady, whose features were full of fresh excitement. As soon as Lucy was gone, after having kissed her new flogging friend with affectionate impetuosity betokening all Miss Farman's gratitude, Rosey turned toward me, darting her fine eyes into mine.
“At last I shall be able to flog you as much as I like! Come now, get your clothes off!” she hissed through her set teeth.
Her look, coupled with her threatening words, made me shudder. I undressed hastily, stretching myself obediently on the bed, impregnated with Lucy's delicious fragrant warmth.
Miss Rosey got the ropes and tied my feet and hands to the four corners of the couch on which my body formed the figure of a Maltese cross. Then, seizing a strong rod, she birched me without graduating her strokes. The first was dealt with an amount of vigour that proved she meant to give no quarter.
At every burning blow, I leaped and bounded, groaning deplorably.
“Aha, you don't laugh to-day, master!” said Rosey, happy to see me writhing and moaning.
Her switching rained down quicker and harder. I trembled in every limb, arching up and pressing down my loins each time my bottom came in for a terrible cut.
Miss Rosey had to rest in the middle of her task, to roll up her hair which had fallen down, covering her as with a veil in which the ends of the birch kept catching. She profited by her pause to take another rod, and it seemed that she had gained renewed vigour, for she began to whip me frenziedly, tearing shrieks of suffering from my hoarse throat.
I begged for pity, but the relentless queen of the birch shook her head, continuing to stripe my tortured backside, her eyes rolling madly. Her movements irregular and wild, like those of a bacchante.
From her lissom frame, whirling in a delirious slashing saraband, issued waves of vibrating salacity that encircled me. Every nerve in my pained body throbbed, as the flames of her burning birch licked my gory posteriors, and drew me near to her soul, as it were, in a vortex of unparalelled voluptuousness.
Casting the rod from her-she must have seen the lascivious effect her tormenting twigs produced on her slave-she quickly gripped the whip, and sent a dozen or more fearful strokes of the dread instrument made me plunge, tearing at my bonds as I stiffened all my limbs under the shock of the gruesome commotion.
This supreme fustigating effort caused a sweet rush of swimming pleasure to invade the secret being of the whipping woman as she threw herself upon me, delightedly kissing the part she had bruised and wealed. She undid the ropes, and took my place on the bed, while I fell panting on my knees, actuated by a greedy wish to kiss her small feet.
Indolent and disdainful, she permitted me to take off her baby shoes and softly draw away her long, silk,
