SIGN POST: Chapter one of SLAVES FOR THE SHEIK by Allan Aldiss
Dave
Copyright by Allan Aldiss
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Several years ago, a European magazine published several articles, complete
with photographs, describing a harem of pretty young blond European women,
belonging to a wealthy Sheik. They were mainly Dutch or Austrian.
The article, apparently quite genuine, was written by a well known Arab
lady journalist who had managed to trick her way inside the harem. She had
been able to talk briefly to some of the the women, including an attractive
mother and teenage daughter. She also been able, secretly, to photograph
them in their harem clothes together with the stern looking, black eunuch
who was in charge of them.
The photographs showed them relaxing in the harem under his supervision
and being proudly paraded by him, a long whippy cane in his hand, in front
of a screen in the wall, behind which their hidden Master was sitting.
To her surprise the young European women all came from very respectable
backgrounds. They were now virtually slaves, kept in the harem, and used by
their Master, against their will and allowed no contact with the outside
world.
How, she wondered, had these well educated young women ended up in this
harem?
How indeed! This story provides some possible answers.
Readers should, however, remember that in the Middle East the position
of women, and the way they are treated, has traditionally been, and still
is, very different from that of Western women. What may seem shocking and
cruel to Western eyes, may be viewed very differently there. There, men are
enjoined that 'Women have been put into the world for the enjoyment of men,
go ye therefore and enjoy them'
SLAVES FOR THE SHEIK
CONTENTS
PART I - SHEIK ALI'S NEW HAREM
1 - A discreet inspection
2 - The twins called Crimson
3 - A collection of well bred young English concubines!
4 - Zalu, the chief black eunuch
5 - Action! Sheik Ali implements his plan
PART II - THE ACQUISITION OF THE HON. MRS JEREMY RIDDLE (LOUISE), AND OF
MISS SAMANTHA SMYTHE
1 - Certain plans are made - and carried out
2 - Louise's induction into prison
3 - A taste of hell
4 - The Mullah
5 - Another Englishwoman!
6 - Hard Labour
7 - A public flogging
8 - The Evening Inspection
9 - A sudden chance of freedom?
10- Acquired!
PART III - THE ENTRAPMENT OF MRS ROBIN SEYMOUR (AMANDA)
1 - The trap is set
2 - Amanda learns the terrifying 'truth'
3 - Auctioned!
4 - The trap snaps shut
5 - Amanda learns her real fate
6 - The golden cage
7 - Inspection by the Master
8 - Pleasure and frustration
PART IV - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MISS OLIVIA HAMILTON?
1 - Abandoned in North Africa
2 - Olivia learns she is to be a whore
3 - Olivia is prepared
4 - The Bastinado
5 - Trained as a whore
6 - Rescued!
PART V - SOME MORE ACQUISITIONS
1 - Mona and Diana, a beautiful mother and daughter
2 - Consummation!
3 - The entrapment of Miss Julia de Freville
5 - The degradation of Julia
6 - Julia begs the Sheik to take her into his harem
PART VI - EPILOGUE
PART I - SHEIK ALI PLANS A NEW HAREM
1 - 1 A DISCREET INSPECTION
The handsome and energetic young Sheik Ali bin Faisal al Tufaya was looking
very pleased.
The renovation of his new luxurious palace in North Africa, with its
high security harem, had been completed. His concubines and their
supervising black eunuchs had been flown in from his old palace in Shadek,
in Arabia.
Yes, everything would soon be ready for him to start his Great Plan :
the gradual replacement of his Arab concubines with carefully chosen, and
discreetly entrapped, well educated, upper class English women.
Smiling, he looked down into the harem from behind a screen in a
beautifully carved balcony.
Below him a dozen beautiful young olivia skinned women were relaxing
around a prettily curved, oval shaped pool. Surrounding the pool were high
marble pillars behind which was a shiny marble floored colonnade.
In the centre of the pool a fountain was playing and some of the girls
were running in and out of its falling jets, laughing like excited little
girls as they did so. They were naked except for a coloured ribbon tied to
their gleaming metal collars.
He smiled as he saw that whilst some of the girls were swimming round
the pool, several others were standing up in the shallow end and calling out
childishly as they excitedly threw a large rubber ball to each other - a
game that was encouraged by the carefully watching Zalu, his chief black
eunuch. Like swimming, it helped to firm up their bare breasts.
He smiled again at the sight of his tattooed crest neatly emblazoned
across their bellies, and below it, equally neatly tattooed onto their
smooth and hairless mounds, was their registered number as an indentured
servant.
How satisfactory it would be to see the soft white bellies and mounds of
his future English concubines similarly marked.
Reclining on the smooth, shiny pink, marble colonnade around the pool
lay several other young women, chatting to each other excitedly, like
children on an outing.
These ones were still dressed - all identically and scantily clad in
wide silken, transparent, harem pantaloons of different colours that were
cut away in front to display their childlike, smooth and hairless beauty
lips and mounds - and, above these, his prettily coloured crest.
Over their shoulders they wore stiff embroidered boleros, of the same
colour as their pantaloons, which left their painted nipples bare. On their
heads were little embroidered caps also of the same colour, as were their
pointed Turkish slippers.
The Sheik smiled as he saw that each girl was thus either dressed
entirely in a different colour or, if naked in the pool, had a different
coloured ribbon tied to her collar. Each girl was called by her colour - a
clever idea of Zalu's, to save the Master from having to bother to remember
his women's individual names. Sheik Ali looked approvingly at the large and
carefully polished brass rings that hung from most of their noses, round
their mouths and down to their chins. This was the sign of having, dutifully
and humbly, several times received his seed in each of their three orifices,
whilst giving him proper pleasure. Only then could a girl be accepted as an
Approved Junior Concubine, the first step up the harem hierarchy.
The large rings gave them an appropriately slave-like, and indeed an
almost animal-like, appearance. Normally one might have assumed a girl would
be horrified at being so degradingly ringed. However, here in the unnatural
atmosphere of the harem, it was a much prized sign of having won their
handsome young Master's approval.
The rings were a sign of proven subservience, a feeling that was
enhanced for each girl by her chromium plated collar. These were made of a
flexible interlocking mesh, like that of a metal watch strap, and were
locked at the back of the neck. They came high up under their chins, giving
the necks a swan-like appearance.
The Sheik's crest and the girls' registered number as an indentured
servant were engraved on the sides of the ring, and at the back and front
was a ring for attaching a lead. All this played an important role in making
the women feel that they were each his private property.
The Sheik laughed again, however, as he saw the miniature battery holder
on the back of each collar, which enabled the collars also to play another
quite different, and yet very important, role in the harem.
He looked at the gold and silver bands that decorated the women's long
dark hair that hung down their olivia skinned backs. How much more
delightful it would be, he sighed, when much of the hair was blond - and the
skin was a pure white, carefully kept that way by Zalu never allowing it to
be exposed to the sun or the elements. Ah well, that time would soon be
coming... Air conditioning in summer, and central heating in winter, would
enable a steady warm temperature to be maintained throughout the year. This
was just as well, for when not swimming and playing naked in the pool, the
women were still kept scantily and provocatively dressed.
The young women, both in the pool and lying at its side, kept
coquettishly, and yet nervously, flashing their dark eyes up at the screen
behind which he was sitting - uncertain as to whether their handsome young
Master was there, watching them. They had nearly all been acquired for him
by Zalu and none of them knew their Master's full name, though, not
surprisingly, numerous inaccurate rumours about his identity would circulate
round the harem - much to his amusement.
For them he was just the Master, their rich and powerful Master who
protected them from the cares and worries of the outside world - a world
from which they were now isolated, for no distracting outside television,
radios, or newspapers were allowed in the harem. Their whole world was
centred solely on their Master.
Their only glimpse of this outside world would, the young Sheik knew, be
through the bars of the cage on the roof of the harem, when they were taken
up there by the black eunuchs, each evening, for their daily airing.
However, even then all that they could see, over the high walls that
surrounded the harem garden, was a distant view of an empty sea, and of
mountains and desert.
They would also be able to see down into the well kept harem garden but
not into the walled park that surrounded the palace, and certainly not the
gardeners or any visitors. The black eunuchs made sure that the women did
not even get a distant sight of anything male, only taking the women up onto
the roof after they had carefully checked that nothing male was about - not
even a dog!
Shouting: 'Keep eyes down! A man! A man!' and cracking their whips, they
would hustle the disappointed women down off the roof if there was ever the
slightest risk of them getting an inadvertent, if only momentary, glimpse of
another man.
Indeed, none of the women had seen another man since they entered their
Master's harem. Zalu had even taken special precautions that they did see
any during their closely supervised flight from Shadek to what for them was
still an unknown place.
Zalu also made sure that they never saw photographs of other men -
especially pop stars, or film stars, over whom they might moon or fantasise.
Their fantasies had to centre on their Master and no one else!
Neither had they heard a another man's voice other their Master's and
the high pitched cries of the black eunuchs. The only recordings allowed in
the harem were of women.
The Sheik liked Zalu to keep his women's minds like those of little
girls, even though they had the bodies of lovely women - and traditionally
the harem system had, of course, always encouraged this. Zalu made sure
that they only read children's picture books and magazines. Similarly the
only videos they were allowed to see were innocent cartoons at which they
would laugh like happy little girls.
Soon. the young Sheik reflected, the eyes glancing hesitatingly up at
the screen would be blue, green or grey. He smiled at the thought of well
educated Englishwomen, used to freedom and independence, soon also being
subjected this strict and degrading regime. Sheik Ali noticed that the
women in the pool kept nervously glancing at two hugely fat pot bellied
black eunuchs, who were walking up and down the sides of the pool, carefully
watching the women in their charge. They were wearing huge white Turkish
style trousers, red waistcoats and distinctive white hats made of silk like
a brimless top hat, but wider at the top than at the bottom, like a flower
pot.
Tucked into the silk cummerbunds round their voluminous waists were
short handled whips, each with a long curled-up leather leash - the sort
used to crack when training animals.
One of them was holding a long carriage whip with which he could reach
the women even in the centre of the pool.
The other held a large man size landing net on a long pole. Just as in a
fish restaurant a man might chose his dinner from amongst the fish swimming
in a tank, so here in the harem, the Master might choose a woman whose
hanging breasts and hairless beauty lips had been caught, as she swam, by
the hidden underwater television cameras and displayed on two large screens
to the watching Master.
He might them for instance, press a button marked 'Scarlet' and this
second black eunuch, glancing at his electronic pager, would use his long
net to catch and land the chosen girl. The net was also, of course, used to
bring in, for punishment, any girl detected misbehaving, either with herself
or with another girl, by the watching black eunuchs or by the secret
underwater television cameras.
Indeed Sheik Ali, kept glancing down at the television monitors that
were connected to the hidden cameras at the bottom of the pool. They showed
the same scene as he was looking down at, but from underneath: the young
women's long legs; their exposed and hairless beauty lips; their remarkably
full breasts, and prominent, and often ringed nipples, which hung down
prettily as they swam; their pouting little bellies, each decoratively
tattooed with his crest and a harem number; and their beauty lips each
decorated with a line of golden rings.
Through the rings were threaded leather laces, like the laces of a shoe,
keeping each girl's beauty lips tightly compressed and preventing her from
touching her throbbing beauty bud. A tiny padlock, the keys to which were
held by the black eunuchs, prevented the laces from being loosened. Each
girl was responsible for keeping her laces well polished.
The cameras also showed the girls' hands constantly reaching down to
their own, or their companions' frustrated beauty buds, but then darting
back in despair at not being able to touch them and in fear of being seen by
the watching black eunuchs.
The young Sheik smiled as he saw that in two cases the crest and numbers
seemed prettily distended - signs of a forced motherhood that had been
carefully arranged by Zalu.
He smiled again as he saw how the girls' breasts were firmer and
swelling up for their future new role as two of his milkmaids. Zalu had
already had their nipples elongated and was 'steaming them up', just as
heifers were specially fed when they were first in calf, to ensure a good
yield during their first lactations.
He also nodded approvingly as he saw that in both cases a shiny chain
mail maternity, or breeding, belt had been locked round the girls' waists
and down over their beauty lips, making it impossible for them to harm the
little black progeny growing inside them.
Of course, the girls natural maternal instincts often ensured that they
came to accept being in an expectant state, especially as, every day, they
were brought to parade their growing bellies proudly before their half
beloved and half hated Master. Nevertheless, precautions had to be taken
lest they be tempted to interfere with what had been planned for them.
Sheik Ali's manhood stirred as he took in the erotic scenes below the
water's edge shown on the television monitors - and as he looked down,
through the wooden screen, at the equally erotic scene above the water's
edge.
Oh yes, he thought, as he wondered which girls to have brought to his
bed for his siesta, how much more exciting it would be when the choice would
be between haughty, but now well disciplined, blond English women, each
secretly crying out for her lost husband, lover or boy friend. Beyond the
pool, on one side, were large sliding glass doors, covered in strong iron
bars, though which could be seen a pretty garden.
Little gravel paths, well roofed against the sun, wound their way round
the little garden. Here Zalu could send the women to get some fresh air and
exercise in the cool of the early evening, as an alternative to the cage on
the roof. They would, of course, still be under the ceaselessly watching
eyes of discreetly placed television cameras, and of a black eunuch in a
raised rostrum. With the sun almost setting, there would also be no risk of
the even the most delicate of white skins getting even a hint of an unwanted
tan.
Beyond the garden rose a wall, smooth sided and some some forty feet
high, with an electrified fence running along the top. Although this was
nominally to keep prying eyes from seeing the Sheik's women, it also served
to keep the women in.
As well as Zalu and his assistant black eunuchs, Sheik Ali had brought
his own devoted guards from Shadek to man the palace gates and to watch the
high walls, a task made much easier by the strategically placed television
cameras.
Yes, indeed, everything was now ready for him to start implementing his
Great Plan. Both his yacht and his jet plane would be playing an essential
part in his role as a modern Barbary Corsair, capturing innocent Christian
women for his harem.
But there was one big difference. Whereas the Barbary Corsairs had
mainly carried off relatively uneducated women from the southern European
coasts and islands of the Mediterranean, he would be carrying off well
educated, and often upper class, Englishwomen.
The preparations had been long and complex. He reviewed them in his mind
one last time...
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