Ramon71
Magistrate
Good evening,
This is my first crack at a story based on some ideas I’ve recently been thinking about. This forum has really expanded my imagination on these topics. Chapters 1 - 4 are posted first, and I’ll add the last for separately for the rest of the week. I hope you find it enjoyable. Thank you!
1
Mary Ellen Jenkins was working in the house and heard Sheriff Bailey speaking to her father, who was standing on the porch outside.
“Bartholomew, I hate to pay a visit like this, but I’ve received word that Cecilia has been secretly meeting Abel Smith in the woods just off the edge of your property. This is a serious breach of the courting laws as you know. In fact, they are likely with each other now.”
Mary Ellen’s mother, Agnes, was outside on the porch also and exclaimed, “No!”
“Well Cecilia’s in town working at the Edwards’ store,” Bartholomew said in disbelief to the mounted sheriff, “My sons and I saw her headed down the road this morning as we were working in the fields.”
“I’ve been by the store already. Cecilia told Mrs. Edwards that she could only help for a couple of hours today because she was needed here. I wanted to come by first before searching because I know Cecilia is a reputable girl.”
Alarmed, and knowing that Cecilia was not home, Bartholomew turned and yelled into the house for Mary Ellen, but she had already bolted out of the back door and toward her older sister.
•••
Cecilia Jenkins and Abel Smith had attended school together starting from the earliest grades right up through high school. As mandated by the strict moral codes and laws of their region, students could not date or have close one-on-one relationships. However, a powerful crush developed between Cecilia and Abel, as they seemed to have natural chemistry. The pair frequently saw each other at church functions and community gatherings.
After graduation, many young people began the ritual of courting under tight supervision by their families, a process that could take months or years before marriage. Cecilia’s father was strict, and had not let her begin courting. Abel’s family was prominent in the region and were selective about a potential wife for their son. Now two years after graduation, he had only just begun courting Maggie Wainwright, one of their former classmates from school. Maggie was beautiful but shallow, and Abel longed to be with his first “love”. Abel and Cecilia continued to interact in any way possible, brief conversations and brushing up against one another when noone was watching. Even a slight touch of their arms would send what felt like jolts of electricity surging through their bodies.
While Cecilia’s father did not let her court, she was allowed to work at the Edwards’ store in town to earn extra money for the family. Cecilia was smart and hardworking. She excelled at the store, whether it was helping customers or assisting with the bookkeeping and inventory. At twenty years old, Cecilia was an attractive girl. Abel loved her dark brown hair and eyes, fair skin, and slightly crooked nose bridged with freckles. Her breasts were full, but not overly large for her somewhat skinny frame. Abel longed to be alone with her.
One Sunday, the pair brushed up against one another multiple times at a church dinner, driving Abel crazy. The next day, he decided to take a huge risk and intercept Cecilia on her walk home from work. Her face lit up when she saw him leaning against a tree with a mischievous smile. After a quick glance around, Cecilia ran into his arms and they kissed for the first time, tongues darting awkwardly into each other’s mouths. Abel turned her around with her back against the tree and pressed his body into hers while his hands roamed over her breasts and ass. Cecilia could feel her love’s hard member pressed between her legs, and she gasped with pleasure as she became damp with excitement and yearning.
The clinking and clacking of a wagon approaching from around the bend startled them from their reverie. Abel quickly skipped away into the woods with a blown kiss while Cecilia composed herself and smoothed her dress. As their respective journeys home continued, a cloud of reality began to descend over the euphoria and arousal that each felt. They well knew the consequences for those caught in such behavior.
Despite their fears, Cecilia and Abel continued to meet once a week as they fell more deeply in love and lust. Their spot was just off the Jenkins’ property down a trail that ran beside a creek. Abel began bringing a blanket to their sessions. After a few weeks, clothes were shed as their repressed sexual natures became unleashed. The pair realized that they were close to making love like husband and wife. Abel wracked his brain for a way to tell his parents that he wanted to break off the courtship with Maggie.
Cecilia had to concoct excuses to get away for her meetings with Abel, even enlisting the help of her younger sister. Eighteen-year-old Mary Ellen was a lovely girl, known for her adorable face, sweet personality, and many friends. She was not quite as tall as Cecilia, with blue eyes and lighter brown hair down to her shoulders. Mary Ellen knew the relationship with Abel was wrong, but she loved Cecilia and wanted to help in any way possible. The younger Jenkins sister had her own object of desire, Caleb Johnson, but she fretted that he would marry before she could even begin courting. Fortunately, her father had signaled that he might be more lenient with Mary Ellen.
2
To most observers, Maggie Wainwright and Abel Smith would have been a fine match. While her family was not as prominent as Abel’s, they still carried political weight in the district and were wealthy from their business endeavors. Maggie had noticed that Abel was distant during their courtship meetings. She was more forward than most girls and tried steal kisses during their time together, draping her lithe body across his, though the advances were rebuffed by Abel. In truth, her parents were not concerned with the all encompassing religious and moral aspects of their community, other than for their own purposes. They were all too willing to let their daughter push the boundaries of the courting ritual to ensure the right marriage.
One day, Maggie noticed Abel talking to Cecilia outside the Edwards’ store with a huge smile on his face. Later, she saw him headed out of town in the opposite direction from his home carrying a rolled up blanket, and her suspicions grew.
Maggie had her own horse and quickly retrieved it to follow Abel. As he passed the Jenkins farm and veered off the main road toward the creek trail, Maggie dismounted and tied up the horse to follow on foot. A few minutes later, she came upon a scene that made her blood turn cold. Abel and Cecilia were wrapped in a passionate embrace. Cecilia’s dress was off and the shirtless Abel had his face buried between her breasts. She could tell that they were stroking each other’s privates. Maggie was consumed by rage that her intended was defiling himself with someone so common. She stomped off toward her horse.
Maggie’s father rushed into the room when he heard his daughter crying and telling her mother about the affair. They quickly convened a meeting with Reverend Stringfellow and the sheriff to report the desecration of Abel and Maggie’s courtship. The lofty position of Abel’s family was a short term advantage to the wayward couple, as Sheriff Bailey was unwilling to act in a hasty manner based on Maggie’s accusation. He let the Wainwrights know that he would check into things and provide an update. The reverend agreed with this approach. Maggie knew that if Abel had been a farm boy, the authorities would already be making plans for their public floggings. She wanted Abel and Cecilia to pay!
After a few days, the Wainwrights were growing impatient with the lack of action. Sheriff Bailey was still hesitant about knocking over a hornet’s nest involving the Smith family, but he decided to pay a visit to the Edwards’ store to size up Cecilia. He discovered that she had already left for the day because she was supposedly needed at home. Sheriff Bailey decided to ride out to the Jenkins’ farm.
About an hour before the sheriff’s visit to the store, Maggie once again noticed Abel headed out of town with his blanket. He and Cecilia had made a fool of her. Maggie sulked for a while, and then she decided to break up their little party herself. Unbeknownst to Maggie, the sheriff was headed to the same location.
3
After the sheriff visited their house, Mary Ellen was desperately trying to beat him the spot where she knew Cecilia and Abel met. As she ran, she glanced back through the shrubs along the creek and saw that the lawman was about to turn onto the main trail, gaining ground with his horse at a trot. Mary Ellen hid in the woods and waited for him to get closer. As he rode up, she popped out and said, “Oh hello Sheriff Bailey, what are you doing out this way?”
“Well I was actually looking for Cecilia, and your father was trying to find you at the house a short while ago.” The sheriff saw that Mary Ellen was flushed and sweating. “You look like you have been exerting yourself young lady.”
“Well I was just taking a stroll along the creek and it’s so warm. Cecilia’s over on the other side of the property picking berries. If you go back by the house and away from the main road you should find her.”
As Mary Ellen and the sheriff spoke, Abel and Cecilia kissed passionately, unaware of the danger nearby. Cecilia was on her back, naked except for underwear pulled down to mid-thigh as Abel probed her drenched sex with his fingers. She arched her hips in ecstasy to press into his touch, grasping his manhood tightly. Abel reached down and slipped Cecilia’s panties off her long legs, which she opened in preparation for their first time to make love.
Suddenly, a loud noise startled them as Maggie crashed through the woods on her horse. She dismounted quickly and began to pound Abel with a billy club she kept for protection. Maggie cursed at the dazed boy, and Cecilia scrambled to cover herself.
The commotion drew the attention of the sheriff, and Mary Ellen’s heart sank. As the he spurred his horse forward, Cecilia and Maggie emerged from the woods down the trail struggling over the club. Maggie slipped over the edge of the creek bank as they wrestled for control.
Sheriff Bailey saw that the breathless Cecilia was dressed in only panties and a thin white top with no bra. Despite being engaged in his duties, the sheriff immediately admired her hardened nipples and soft breasts barely disguised by the chemise. Maggie was lying unconscious in the ditch, her head smashed against a rock. Over in the woods, Abel had risen to his feet. He hung his head at the sight of the sheriff.
They retrieved Maggie from the ditch and all headed for the Jenkins’ farm. The girls’ parents made them kneel in the front yard as the sheriff explained what just happened, while Abel was made to stay at a safe distance. Bartholomew and Agnes could not look at their daughters as the girls wept and admitted to everything.
The youngest Jenkins boy, Amos, quickly rode to town to fetch the doctor and Maggie’s parents. While the doctor recommended that she not be moved, the Wainwrights refused to have Maggie stay at the farm. Before they left, Mr. Wainwright threatened Abel, and the two had to be separated by the sheriff.
The Jenkins sisters and Abel were placed under arrest and escorted back to town by Sheriff Bailey. The young trio walked in silence, but Cecilia began to cry as they passed the tree where she and Abel first kissed. The couple knew they were in deep trouble. Mary Ellen would likely face consequences too. All three were placed in the jail to await trial.
4
Judge Hiram Albert had been on the bench many years and was no stranger to political pressure. With this situation, he found the Smiths and the Wainwrights to be insufferable. News of the scandal had spread like wildfire through the district in just a few days, and now the pressure was being brought to bear.
The Smiths had enlisted the assistance of Reverend Stringfellow, normally a staunch advocate of floggings for any violations of courtship laws, to suggest an alternative punishment for Abel. The youth would instead be forced to leave town to serve in the country’s navy for several years until this debacle was somewhat forgotten.
The reverend felt that it was important to send a message, especially considering that Abel would not be whipped, and insisted that Cecilia Jenkins receive well beyond the normal twenty-five lashes. He even suggested a severe corporal punishment for Mary Ellen, which was not standard given the facts of the situation. Often, punishments for offenses like hers were left to be delivered by parents under the sheriff’s supervision.
The Wainwrights were enraged and wanted Cecilia to be whipped and executed! Judge Albert firmly told them that a death sentence was inappropriate, though he knew Maggie could still take a turn for the worse. The Wainwrights also seemed to have an unjustified level of anger toward Mary Ellen, who they said should face the lash for covering up the affair.
Judge Albert later explained to Sheriff Bailey that he begrudgingly agreed to most of the requests. He had little leeway given the publicity of the scandal. The populous had to be reminded of the importance of the courting rules.
“Surely the punishment for the younger Jenkins daughter can be tempered,” Sheriff Bailey said. “I know that she lied, but she didn’t engage in any sexual deviance or violence herself. She’s a good girl.”
The judge sighed and said, “Mary Ellen will unfortunately suffer, but not nearly as much as her older sister. I fear that we may see the bones of Cecilia Jenkins’ back before that flogging is over. For her sake, it may be better if she doesn’t survive it. Such a shame. I hear she was a bright young woman.”
Abel was shortly released from jail and informed that he was going into the navy. He begged his parents to intercede on behalf of the sisters, which of course they had no intention of doing. Abel became defiant and said that it was wrong for him to escape punishment while Cecilia faced a public flogging. One night as the trial approached, two large brutes hired by Abel’s parents entered his room while he slept. He was bound and gagged before being placed in a coach headed for the naval squadron miles away on the coast.
TO BE CONTINUED…
This is my first crack at a story based on some ideas I’ve recently been thinking about. This forum has really expanded my imagination on these topics. Chapters 1 - 4 are posted first, and I’ll add the last for separately for the rest of the week. I hope you find it enjoyable. Thank you!
1
Mary Ellen Jenkins was working in the house and heard Sheriff Bailey speaking to her father, who was standing on the porch outside.
“Bartholomew, I hate to pay a visit like this, but I’ve received word that Cecilia has been secretly meeting Abel Smith in the woods just off the edge of your property. This is a serious breach of the courting laws as you know. In fact, they are likely with each other now.”
Mary Ellen’s mother, Agnes, was outside on the porch also and exclaimed, “No!”
“Well Cecilia’s in town working at the Edwards’ store,” Bartholomew said in disbelief to the mounted sheriff, “My sons and I saw her headed down the road this morning as we were working in the fields.”
“I’ve been by the store already. Cecilia told Mrs. Edwards that she could only help for a couple of hours today because she was needed here. I wanted to come by first before searching because I know Cecilia is a reputable girl.”
Alarmed, and knowing that Cecilia was not home, Bartholomew turned and yelled into the house for Mary Ellen, but she had already bolted out of the back door and toward her older sister.
•••
Cecilia Jenkins and Abel Smith had attended school together starting from the earliest grades right up through high school. As mandated by the strict moral codes and laws of their region, students could not date or have close one-on-one relationships. However, a powerful crush developed between Cecilia and Abel, as they seemed to have natural chemistry. The pair frequently saw each other at church functions and community gatherings.
After graduation, many young people began the ritual of courting under tight supervision by their families, a process that could take months or years before marriage. Cecilia’s father was strict, and had not let her begin courting. Abel’s family was prominent in the region and were selective about a potential wife for their son. Now two years after graduation, he had only just begun courting Maggie Wainwright, one of their former classmates from school. Maggie was beautiful but shallow, and Abel longed to be with his first “love”. Abel and Cecilia continued to interact in any way possible, brief conversations and brushing up against one another when noone was watching. Even a slight touch of their arms would send what felt like jolts of electricity surging through their bodies.
While Cecilia’s father did not let her court, she was allowed to work at the Edwards’ store in town to earn extra money for the family. Cecilia was smart and hardworking. She excelled at the store, whether it was helping customers or assisting with the bookkeeping and inventory. At twenty years old, Cecilia was an attractive girl. Abel loved her dark brown hair and eyes, fair skin, and slightly crooked nose bridged with freckles. Her breasts were full, but not overly large for her somewhat skinny frame. Abel longed to be alone with her.
One Sunday, the pair brushed up against one another multiple times at a church dinner, driving Abel crazy. The next day, he decided to take a huge risk and intercept Cecilia on her walk home from work. Her face lit up when she saw him leaning against a tree with a mischievous smile. After a quick glance around, Cecilia ran into his arms and they kissed for the first time, tongues darting awkwardly into each other’s mouths. Abel turned her around with her back against the tree and pressed his body into hers while his hands roamed over her breasts and ass. Cecilia could feel her love’s hard member pressed between her legs, and she gasped with pleasure as she became damp with excitement and yearning.
The clinking and clacking of a wagon approaching from around the bend startled them from their reverie. Abel quickly skipped away into the woods with a blown kiss while Cecilia composed herself and smoothed her dress. As their respective journeys home continued, a cloud of reality began to descend over the euphoria and arousal that each felt. They well knew the consequences for those caught in such behavior.
Despite their fears, Cecilia and Abel continued to meet once a week as they fell more deeply in love and lust. Their spot was just off the Jenkins’ property down a trail that ran beside a creek. Abel began bringing a blanket to their sessions. After a few weeks, clothes were shed as their repressed sexual natures became unleashed. The pair realized that they were close to making love like husband and wife. Abel wracked his brain for a way to tell his parents that he wanted to break off the courtship with Maggie.
Cecilia had to concoct excuses to get away for her meetings with Abel, even enlisting the help of her younger sister. Eighteen-year-old Mary Ellen was a lovely girl, known for her adorable face, sweet personality, and many friends. She was not quite as tall as Cecilia, with blue eyes and lighter brown hair down to her shoulders. Mary Ellen knew the relationship with Abel was wrong, but she loved Cecilia and wanted to help in any way possible. The younger Jenkins sister had her own object of desire, Caleb Johnson, but she fretted that he would marry before she could even begin courting. Fortunately, her father had signaled that he might be more lenient with Mary Ellen.
2
To most observers, Maggie Wainwright and Abel Smith would have been a fine match. While her family was not as prominent as Abel’s, they still carried political weight in the district and were wealthy from their business endeavors. Maggie had noticed that Abel was distant during their courtship meetings. She was more forward than most girls and tried steal kisses during their time together, draping her lithe body across his, though the advances were rebuffed by Abel. In truth, her parents were not concerned with the all encompassing religious and moral aspects of their community, other than for their own purposes. They were all too willing to let their daughter push the boundaries of the courting ritual to ensure the right marriage.
One day, Maggie noticed Abel talking to Cecilia outside the Edwards’ store with a huge smile on his face. Later, she saw him headed out of town in the opposite direction from his home carrying a rolled up blanket, and her suspicions grew.
Maggie had her own horse and quickly retrieved it to follow Abel. As he passed the Jenkins farm and veered off the main road toward the creek trail, Maggie dismounted and tied up the horse to follow on foot. A few minutes later, she came upon a scene that made her blood turn cold. Abel and Cecilia were wrapped in a passionate embrace. Cecilia’s dress was off and the shirtless Abel had his face buried between her breasts. She could tell that they were stroking each other’s privates. Maggie was consumed by rage that her intended was defiling himself with someone so common. She stomped off toward her horse.
Maggie’s father rushed into the room when he heard his daughter crying and telling her mother about the affair. They quickly convened a meeting with Reverend Stringfellow and the sheriff to report the desecration of Abel and Maggie’s courtship. The lofty position of Abel’s family was a short term advantage to the wayward couple, as Sheriff Bailey was unwilling to act in a hasty manner based on Maggie’s accusation. He let the Wainwrights know that he would check into things and provide an update. The reverend agreed with this approach. Maggie knew that if Abel had been a farm boy, the authorities would already be making plans for their public floggings. She wanted Abel and Cecilia to pay!
After a few days, the Wainwrights were growing impatient with the lack of action. Sheriff Bailey was still hesitant about knocking over a hornet’s nest involving the Smith family, but he decided to pay a visit to the Edwards’ store to size up Cecilia. He discovered that she had already left for the day because she was supposedly needed at home. Sheriff Bailey decided to ride out to the Jenkins’ farm.
About an hour before the sheriff’s visit to the store, Maggie once again noticed Abel headed out of town with his blanket. He and Cecilia had made a fool of her. Maggie sulked for a while, and then she decided to break up their little party herself. Unbeknownst to Maggie, the sheriff was headed to the same location.
3
After the sheriff visited their house, Mary Ellen was desperately trying to beat him the spot where she knew Cecilia and Abel met. As she ran, she glanced back through the shrubs along the creek and saw that the lawman was about to turn onto the main trail, gaining ground with his horse at a trot. Mary Ellen hid in the woods and waited for him to get closer. As he rode up, she popped out and said, “Oh hello Sheriff Bailey, what are you doing out this way?”
“Well I was actually looking for Cecilia, and your father was trying to find you at the house a short while ago.” The sheriff saw that Mary Ellen was flushed and sweating. “You look like you have been exerting yourself young lady.”
“Well I was just taking a stroll along the creek and it’s so warm. Cecilia’s over on the other side of the property picking berries. If you go back by the house and away from the main road you should find her.”
As Mary Ellen and the sheriff spoke, Abel and Cecilia kissed passionately, unaware of the danger nearby. Cecilia was on her back, naked except for underwear pulled down to mid-thigh as Abel probed her drenched sex with his fingers. She arched her hips in ecstasy to press into his touch, grasping his manhood tightly. Abel reached down and slipped Cecilia’s panties off her long legs, which she opened in preparation for their first time to make love.
Suddenly, a loud noise startled them as Maggie crashed through the woods on her horse. She dismounted quickly and began to pound Abel with a billy club she kept for protection. Maggie cursed at the dazed boy, and Cecilia scrambled to cover herself.
The commotion drew the attention of the sheriff, and Mary Ellen’s heart sank. As the he spurred his horse forward, Cecilia and Maggie emerged from the woods down the trail struggling over the club. Maggie slipped over the edge of the creek bank as they wrestled for control.
Sheriff Bailey saw that the breathless Cecilia was dressed in only panties and a thin white top with no bra. Despite being engaged in his duties, the sheriff immediately admired her hardened nipples and soft breasts barely disguised by the chemise. Maggie was lying unconscious in the ditch, her head smashed against a rock. Over in the woods, Abel had risen to his feet. He hung his head at the sight of the sheriff.
They retrieved Maggie from the ditch and all headed for the Jenkins’ farm. The girls’ parents made them kneel in the front yard as the sheriff explained what just happened, while Abel was made to stay at a safe distance. Bartholomew and Agnes could not look at their daughters as the girls wept and admitted to everything.
The youngest Jenkins boy, Amos, quickly rode to town to fetch the doctor and Maggie’s parents. While the doctor recommended that she not be moved, the Wainwrights refused to have Maggie stay at the farm. Before they left, Mr. Wainwright threatened Abel, and the two had to be separated by the sheriff.
The Jenkins sisters and Abel were placed under arrest and escorted back to town by Sheriff Bailey. The young trio walked in silence, but Cecilia began to cry as they passed the tree where she and Abel first kissed. The couple knew they were in deep trouble. Mary Ellen would likely face consequences too. All three were placed in the jail to await trial.
4
Judge Hiram Albert had been on the bench many years and was no stranger to political pressure. With this situation, he found the Smiths and the Wainwrights to be insufferable. News of the scandal had spread like wildfire through the district in just a few days, and now the pressure was being brought to bear.
The Smiths had enlisted the assistance of Reverend Stringfellow, normally a staunch advocate of floggings for any violations of courtship laws, to suggest an alternative punishment for Abel. The youth would instead be forced to leave town to serve in the country’s navy for several years until this debacle was somewhat forgotten.
The reverend felt that it was important to send a message, especially considering that Abel would not be whipped, and insisted that Cecilia Jenkins receive well beyond the normal twenty-five lashes. He even suggested a severe corporal punishment for Mary Ellen, which was not standard given the facts of the situation. Often, punishments for offenses like hers were left to be delivered by parents under the sheriff’s supervision.
The Wainwrights were enraged and wanted Cecilia to be whipped and executed! Judge Albert firmly told them that a death sentence was inappropriate, though he knew Maggie could still take a turn for the worse. The Wainwrights also seemed to have an unjustified level of anger toward Mary Ellen, who they said should face the lash for covering up the affair.
Judge Albert later explained to Sheriff Bailey that he begrudgingly agreed to most of the requests. He had little leeway given the publicity of the scandal. The populous had to be reminded of the importance of the courting rules.
“Surely the punishment for the younger Jenkins daughter can be tempered,” Sheriff Bailey said. “I know that she lied, but she didn’t engage in any sexual deviance or violence herself. She’s a good girl.”
The judge sighed and said, “Mary Ellen will unfortunately suffer, but not nearly as much as her older sister. I fear that we may see the bones of Cecilia Jenkins’ back before that flogging is over. For her sake, it may be better if she doesn’t survive it. Such a shame. I hear she was a bright young woman.”
Abel was shortly released from jail and informed that he was going into the navy. He begged his parents to intercede on behalf of the sisters, which of course they had no intention of doing. Abel became defiant and said that it was wrong for him to escape punishment while Cecilia faced a public flogging. One night as the trial approached, two large brutes hired by Abel’s parents entered his room while he slept. He was bound and gagged before being placed in a coach headed for the naval squadron miles away on the coast.
TO BE CONTINUED…
- the girls and Amos awaiit a severe flogging! I'm looking forward to reading that!
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