Anonymous - Maude Cameron And Her Guardian

“ Sir, I assure you I’ m as dumbfounded as you,” Miss Nancy Medbury began. “ I was sound asleep when all of a sudden this girl began to cry out and woke me- and then you and your nieces entered the room. I wish explanation as much as you- why, Norah Byron- you are in my class, of course, I do not comprehend this at all, Mr. Cameron. What is this girl doing out her dormitory in my room?”

“ Why as to that Miss Medbury,” he silkily responded, “ I think you might better have an answer than I- even though it is one that fills me with distaste and consternation.”

“ Sir!” the beautiful buxom young woman stiffened, eyes very wide and angry now, “ what do you mean by that remark?”

He shrugged, “ Before my nieces, I hesitate to spell it out, Miss Medbury. But it seems obvious to me.”

“ Sir, what- what you are implying?” Nancy Medbury’ s face was taut with frantic indignation. As for Norah Byron, consummate actress that she had become, she huddled to one side of the bed, burying her face in her hands- but let her uprucked nightie remain immodestly baring the smooth lovely columns of her quivering thighs and the furry oasis of her lovegroove, which Mr. Cameron did not miss glancing at in his contemplation of the scandalized Miss Medbury.

“ That you and this naughty young vixen have had an assignation,” he resumed calmly, “ and that you sought to compel her to despicable practices which thwarted females use as simulation of the joys of heterosexual relationship.”

“ Ohh! This is too much! You have no right to say such a thing to me, sir! I am betrothed and a decent girl. I have never in all my life-” the auburn- haired instructress expostulated. But Norah Byron, sniffling now, faltered, “ Oh, Mr. Cameron, she told me I had to come here in secret, or else she’ d report me for a Friday birching. And then when I got into bed, she- she made overtures to me-”

“ Why, you little liar!” heatedly cried Nancy Medbury, turning on the cowering brownette, her eyes flashing righteous anger.

“ Disgraceful, Uncle,” Alice hypocritically shook her head with a long face. “ Miss Medbury must leave our school at once! And it is unthinkable that she be allowed to teach anywhere else in England, lest she corrupt the morals of those innocent girls under her charge.”

“ Oh- you- all of you- you must be insane, to take the word of this little liar, this daydreaming, simpering creature,” Nancy Medbury looked at Alice, then Maude, then Mr. Cameron, as if unable to believe the testimony of her ears.

“ I am very much afraid, Miss Medbury,” he retorted calmly,” that the evidence is against you, for all your attempts to bluster it out. Miss Byron would have no reason to make such a calamitous accusation against you if there were not a modicum of truth in it. I shall have to dismiss you with a letter stating that you are being discharged on grounds of moral turpitude, Miss Medbury.”

Now the thoroughly frightened auburn- haired beauty climbed out of bed and, heedless that she was clad only in a nightgown, clasped her hands and earnestly besought Mr. Cameron to reconsider: “ Oh, sir, never in all the world can such a thing be thought of me. I love a fine young man, and I am chaste, and such an ugly thing as I am accused of is unthinkable to my nature. But do not ruin my character, sir, for that is what would happen if you took the word of this infamous creature and blackened me unjustly. I beg you to reconsider!”

“ I cannot,” he shook his head. “ Your only hope is to throw yourself on my mercy, to take a punishment which befits such heinous behavior, and to remain on probation in the hope that I will decide to give you another chance, but one wherein you will not be exposed to such carnal temptations.”

“ Oh, anything in God’ s own name,” Nancy Medbury was nearly hysterical with shame now, “ if only you won’ t dismiss me without a character!”

“ If I decide to quiet Miss Byron’ s charge against you and change you to the teaching of the youngest group, which Miss Cameron now undertakes, will you accept punishment humbly and retain your position here, Miss Medbury?” he asked.

Nancy Medbury bit her lips, lowered her eyes, then nodded, color flooding her creamy cheeks. “ Yes, sir,” she murmured in a low, dull voice.

“ Very well. Maude, take Miss Byron back to her dormitory. As for you, my girl, if I hear from either of my nieces that you have been indiscreet enough to repeat a word of what has been said here in this room tonight, you shall repent it over the birching horse before the entire school. You are warned, Miss Byron!”

He pointed an accusing forefinger at the brownette, who promptly cringed and shook her head, promising that she would die under stringent tortures rather than let a word slip past her sealed lips. Maude, seizing her by an elbow, scolding her like an angry maternal custodian, slapped her bottom and hurried her out of the house. Once outside, Maude giggled, kissed the blushing accomplice to this little drama and whispered, “ Now for being so helpful, you shall hide in the Snuggery and watch Miss Medbury’ s punishment.”

“ Oooh, Miss Cameron, whatever is he going to do to her?”

“ I should rather think that Miss Medbury’ s big backside is going to feel what yours did that time I caught you with Charlene,” Maude twitted, and Norah Byron blushed disconcertingly at the reminder.

The pair hastened in to the school building and went directly to the gym, hiding themselves in the little shed with its one- way glass through which they could see all without being seen.

Meanwhile, Mr. Cameron exhorted Alice to take charge of the shamefaced, silent Nancy Medbury and lead her to the gymnasium. He had not yet specifically detailed what her “ punishment” was to be, but just before entering the gym, the creamy skinned redhead faltered, “ S- sir- I beg you to enlighten me on what I am to suffer by way of unjust chastisement so that this infamous and untrue charge can be dropped and my name expunged of wrongdoing?”

“ I propose to subject you, Miss Medbury, to the kind of punishment I should give Miss Byron or any of the girls of my school found guilty of such wrongdoing,” was his reply.

Nancy Medbury halted, eyes huge with incredulity. “ Sir- you cannot be serious- I cannot believe- oh no, it is impossible!”

“ What is impossible?”

“ That- you mean to say- you intend- I- I-” words failed her, choking in her throat, and she could only stare at him, bemused and aghast.

“ I intend, Miss Medbury,” was his succinct answer, “ to strap you to the triangle, lay bare your bottom and inflict on it a thorough birching!”

“ Oh noo! I will not submit to any such indecent, infamous, degrading treatment as that! I would rather be expelled!” she cried.

“ Too late. Alice, help me with this obstinate young woman,” he called, as Nancy Medbury turned and tried to flee.

In vain; Alice gleefully caught her by a wrist, doubling it behind the victim’ s back so that Nancy Medbury had to bend over, whereupon Mr. Cameron, seizing the other wrist, dragged her along to the triangle- he had recently had a counterpart of the one in his cellar installed in the gym, finding, from his earlier sйances with Rose and Nellie, how efficacious such an apparatus was in positioning the nether parts of the female body for the rod, as well as more intimate attentions.

And, despite her cries, threats, kicks and lunging twists, beautiful mature Nancy Medbury soon found herself with her wrists corded and tied to the ring at the peak of the triangle, her ankles corded fully a yard apart to the lower legs of the apparatus, and her lush forms snugly delineated by the cling of the filmy nightie which was her only covering.