Chapter Sixteen Every day since she first folded him over the big wedge and paddled him, the impeccably compassionate Nurse Drake beat Karl for hours. Somberly recognizing the necessity of this, determined to heal her patient by whatever means required, filled with love for her charge and sorrow over his sins, she did her best to help him atone for these. Though in practical terms it was unnecessary due to his condition she never failed to tie him up in some particularly restrictive fashion first. Openly she explained that the reasons for this were many. The amount of stimulation delivered regularly set off muscle spasms that shuddered through his whole body. The impetus of the blows themselves jarred him constantly. He must be prevented from sliding away from his atonement involuntari