Calvin had been the big winner that night, and my wife asked him to give me back the money I'd lost.He looked at her for a few moments, then looked at... me and said, "I'll make you a deal." He said that he'd give me a chance to win it back if my wife would ante up one piece of clothing in each hand. The more I won, the less my wife would have to take off. Plus I'd also get the cash in the pot. My wife looked over at me. I looked at her, and she answered for both of us by putting a shoe on the. Yes, after the Constitution was ratified, I decided, or rather Sophie insisted, that I needed a vacation. After twenty-three years of making decisions for what amounts to the entire human race, I suppose it was due. Ruth and Sophie conspired to have Ruth look after my daughter and send me off on my little walkabout - or perhaps I should say 'rideabout.'Sophie, at twelve, is far more mature than twelve-year-olds from the world in which I grew up, but then, so was Gav at that age. Amanda would be. Next I wound a harness of ropes around my torso, above and below my breasts as well as around my waist. I passed several of the loops of rope through a large steel ring, securing it in the small of my back. I picked up my handcuffs and padlocked them to the steel ring behind me.Next I put on a head harness with a built-in gag. This had straps that ran across my nose and over my head, as well as around the sides of my head, and a D-ring on top of my head. I tied a climber's hitch in one of the. Was ich sah, erinnerte mich mehr an eine Folterszene aus einem Spionagefilm als an ein erotisches Zusammentreffen. Das Etui enthielt zwei Reihen glänzender, ca 30cm langer Metallstäbe unterschiedlicher Dicke, jeder an den letzten Zentimetern beider Enden leicht abgeknickt. Das mulmige Gefühl stellte sich wieder ein. Inzwischen war es nebenan still geworden und auch das Gang-Licht war ausgegangen und schien nicht mehr zu Fenster herein. Konnte mich jemand hören, wenn ich rief? Kam irgendwann ein.