walk with my assistance.
Entering the vestibule, I asked her if she could get along without
further help, but she insisted that I should go to her rooms, so getting
into the elevator we were taken up to the eighth floor. As though he was
accustomed to this sort of an affair, the elevator attendant went ahead
and opened one of the doors on the right of the hallway, and after
turning on the electric light, and we had entered, he withdrew at once,
quietly closing the door after him. I then found myself within one of
the most elegantly furnished drawing rooms imaginable. At one end of the
apartment was an archway gorgeously draped with costly tapestries which
partially screened another room beyond, which served as a bed-chamber.
Arletta staggered forward, half pulling me along with her into this
other room, and throwing herself upon the bed, ordered me, in a dazed
sort of a way, to remove her clothing. I was dumbfounded at this
extraordinary command and felt that I was placed in an extremely awkward
position. I did not like the idea of allowing the poor girl to remain
over night, in the uncomfortable position she had taken, bound as she
was by tightly fitting garments, and still I realized that it was a very
delicate undertaking to follow out her instructions, knowing full well
that if she were in her right senses she would be horrified at the
thought of such a thing. But as I stood looking at her for several
moments in a state of perplexed indecision, and wondering what course to
pursue, she began to moan as if in agony, and without further hesitation
I decided to go ahead and do my best to make her position more
comfortable. So I began by taking off her shoes.

"What a superb foot!" mused I enthusiastically, as I unlaced and removed
her pretty little shoes. "Was there ever another quite so shapely or
entrancing? And the ankle! How daintily its joints showed beneath
embroidered hose of exquisite material." Hardly had I begun this task
before I realized that a strange magnetic force was stealing upon me.
With such a feast for my eyes to contend with, it seemed as if my senses
were being gradually overcome by the intoxicating clutch of voluptuous
dreams.

The shoes off, I turned my attention to the collar which apparently
caused her much uneasiness. The collar, as I discovered, was a part of
the bodice and could not be taken off without removing the whole
garment, which task required considerable time, patience, and carefu