Mistress Adelaide's Travelling Gimp Circus
Copyright© 2019 by Freddie Clegg
Chapter 4
In The Outhouse
Two nights before, Tim Farragut had just finished work for the evening. The chairs had been stacked on the tables. The glasses were all clean and set back on the shelves behind the bar. Miss Adams had long gone to bed and now it was time for him to do the same. As he made his way across the yard at the back of the pub towards the outhouse where his own room was, he heard a noise coming from the stack of barrels in one corner.
The figure of a woman, a long cloak reaching the ground with a hood that reached up over her head and shadowed her face emerged. Tim stopped. “Hullo,” the figure said.
He knew what the woman wanted, without knowing her identity. It had been a regular occurrence, every four weeks, for the last few months. Each encounter had left him puzzled, confused and ashamed. “I suppose you want...”
“Yes. You understand. I have my needs.”
“But...”
“I’ve explained, before. It’s not much to ask and in return you have your home here without problems. Lady Henderby might not look kindly on a bar-boy that thought himself able to ignore the calls of his betters. Besides, from my recollection, you have not been unwilling in our previous encounters.”
It was true, Tim thought to himself. When he had first been approached by this mysterious woman with her half enticing, half threatening seduction he had been flattered and had lost his virginity to her without a care. He had enjoyed their physical entanglements, delighting in the lessons that this woman had given him in the arts of love. But now, her repeated returns, the continuing mystery of her identity, the combination of threats and enticement, the fact that she always kept her face veiled throughout their carnal encounters left him feeling used. Although it wasn’t clear to him what influence Lady Henderby might have on his fate, he didn’t feel able to risk the threat.
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