Chapter Five
Curious Pleasures
Among the unique delights of the House of Gratius were the many novel and imaginative ways devised by the inventive proprietor to display his girls for the perusal of his many guests, and customers. I well remember the day when the pretty slave who met me at the door escorted me straight through the big house to where my host waited for on the back verandah. This porch was built as a wide curve, a semi-circle that jutted out opening onto the grassy lawn below, and giving a superb view of the lake. A line of tall columns was set along the outside rim of the sweeping verandah.
And now I saw that to each column our ingenious host had affixed a female slave! Each girl was secured with her hands against her side, her back to the column, and kept in place by thr
