Going Home by Valerie Wood

Author:Valerie Wood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2001-05-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

CAPTAIN BOYLE GRIMACED in anger and discomfort as he rode. The pain in his back increased with every movement from the horse beneath him. Blasted woman; but he should have expected as much. She’d got uppity now that she had money. If she’d been down on her luck she would have welcomed him. Then an unwished-for doubt crept in: or maybe her husband keeps her satisfied. A picture of Joe Hawkins, strong and defiant even though he had been in fetters, came into his mind. He hadn’t been able to break his spirit all those years ago, not with the ducking overboard or the cat-o’-nine-tails.

And what does she mean, I’ll get my come-uppance? Will she tell Hawkins? Or will she send somebody to frighten me off? No, she was bluffing. But I shan’t go up there again, even though I’d like to bed her. His salacious appetite sharpened at the thought of Meg Hawkins’s fine figure. She’s been a whore, and once a whore, always a whore.

But what Meg Hawkins had said was true; the sight of so many women in chains had excited him, and it was for that same reason that he visited the brothels in town and on occasion the Rocks, the most notorious of districts in Sydney. The women there were so downtrodden they were willing to do anything to earn a copper.

He felt himself stirring as he remembered the last time he had visited the Rocks. He had seen a young girl, maybe fourteen or perhaps younger, attractive in spite of the dirt on her face and her torn clothes. He had beckoned her to come with him, and her mother, her face haggard and worn, and dirtier even than her daughter, had pushed her forward, even though the girl had been unwilling.

He’d held her tightly by her thin wrist so that she wouldn’t run away, and taken her to a seedy downtown hotel and ordered a room with a bath and hot water. He’d watched her as she stripped off her dirty dress and stepped gingerly into the water, tears streaking her face.

He had lain on the bed chewing on a cigar and watched her as she soaped her thin body as he directed. He’d felt the excitement growing inside him at the sight of her small round breasts and buttocks, at the soft downy pubescent hair, until he could bear it no longer. He’d pulled her out of the bath and without permitting her to dry herself he pushed her onto the bed and held her down with one hand whilst he tore off his trousers.

She’d screamed and cried, but in that area of the town no-one had enquired about the noise and when he had finished with her he threw some money at her and told her to go. She gathered up her clothes against her naked body and staggered out of the room. He saw that she was shaking and crying but he simply turned over on the none too clean sheets and slept for an hour before going home.

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