kitchen knife to get it started and when she was able to get her fingers under a piece she would peel it off carefully. The whiskers being embedded in the paraffin had no choice but to come off with it. I passed into a semi-conscious coma of pain. At last it was over and while Mr. Vickers applied a lotion to my face, the other two torturers released my arms. Free from the restraint of my bonds I fell from the chair in a faint. When I came to my face was burning and I winced in pain. Mrs. Bickers began applying cold cream pro- fusely and the burning subsided somewhat. I kept cold cream on my face for the rest of the day and re- newed it that night when I went to bed.

The next morning the pain and burning were gone when I woke up. Still in my nightie I stepped into a pair of dainty house slippers and went to the mirror to look at my face. Although red and slightly inflam- ed, it looked all right and revealed not a vestige of hair. I touched my chin gingerly and was astonished at the soft feel of it. Smoothness that I had not felt since I was a little boy. After washing and dressing myself in the same skirt and blouse I had worn the day before, I went into the kitchen. Mrs. Vickers, Dora and Barbara were sitting at the kitchen table over coffee and, at my entry, they made a rush for me I endured their probing fingers on my chin and cheeks and their exclamations of wonder.

"Why, his face is as smooth as a baby's" Dora

exlaimed. "But, isnt it too red?"

"Oh, makeup will take care of that and in a day or two the redness will go away." said Mrs. Vickers.

All that day, I had to wear high heels in order to get used to them. Walk, walk, walk, until I learn- ed how to walk without the crab-like effect of lean- ing forward from the height of the heels. Already nylans were hard to get so I was wearing sheer rayon stockings which were drawn up tightly by the garters on my girdle. Barbara seemed to take a malicious de- light in ordering me about, sneerinly punctuating her orders with remarks such as:

"Look, Pansy, how many times do I have to tell

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