The Last Lesbians

[gagged_Louise]

With Beatrice handcuffed between them, the soldiers passed round a brick walled corner into a hall about forty feet long and opening, on one side, into a stairway vault of dark, kind of grimy stone. The stairway threw dim shades into the hall. Jones held in his step and firmly held Beatrice's left arm, saying quietly "We'll stop here for a minute" while Robinson stepped aside and went over to a few lockers by the wall.
Moments later he came back, holding a whip made of dark, taut sailors' rope about four feet long, supported on a wooden shaft and dividing into in a couple of leather thongs with tiny knots, ending in steel screws and flanges. Stepping beside Beatrice, he put one hand at her cheek and loooked into her eyes a bit from the side.

"We're going to feel you out a little" he said, holding the whip up close to Beatrice's face. "But we won't be using this at once..." She said nothing, not even a grunt came from her.
He handed the whip to Jones, clenching his hands around her wrists, unlocked her handcuffs and moved them in front; then he tied the wrists again with a rope, leaving about a yard off. "Come over here" he said and marched her a few feet to a spot just by the stair wall. The lower end of a wrought-iron grille set into the stairs was about seven feet above Beatrice at this point. He stretched down and secured her feet to a pair of steel rings, from which there were chains running in the stone floor; he wound the chains around her feet, leaving them spread apart and padlocked.
"Stretch your arms right above your head, slut" Robinson said, looming like a shadow beside her.

Out in the front yard, where the weather was getting slightly overcast, came a whistle from a posted soldier in one of the guard towers. But Howard's two men had also spotted Sarah's blatant effort to dislodge the rope from Hannah's chest. They bolted over, and one of them grabbed Sarah steadily over the right ear and cheek. pinched his long finger into her right eye and forced her head aside. "I thought a cunning conspiring little whore like you would be smarter than that" he said. "Yeah, I'm calling you names here, though we're not in court yet.".