Christine Blashford
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728 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Christine Blashford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Moreover, said Pink Marble, they've got the run of the stables now the old man's away, and there isn't a night some of those horses ain't out.
When Flint said that was something Mrs.
Hay ought to know, Pink Marble replied that was something Mrs.
Hay did know, unless she refused to believe the evidence of her own senses as well as his, and Pink thought it high time our fellows in the field had recaptured Hay and fetched him home.
If it wasn't done mighty soon, he, Pink, wouldn't be answerable for what might happen at the post.
All the more anxious did this make Flint.
He decided that the exigencies of the case warranted his putting a sentry over Hayes' stable, with orders to permit no horse to be taken out except by an order from him, and Crab took him and showed him, two days later, the tracks of two horses going and coming in the soft earth in front of a narrow side door that led to the coral.
Flint had this door padlocked at once, and Wilkins took the key, and that night was surprised by a note from Mrs.
Hay.
The stablemen complain that the sentries will not let them take the horses out even for water and exercise which has never been the case before, and Mrs.
Hay begged that the restriction might be removed, and
Indeed, if Major Flint would remove the sentry, she would assume all responsibility for loss or damage.
The men had been with mister Hayes, she said, for six years, and never had been interfered with before, and they were sensitive and hurt, and would quit work, they said, if further molested.
Then there would be nobody to take their place, and the stock would suffer.
In point of fact, Mrs Hay was pleading for the very men against whom the other employees claimed to have warned her, these two half breeds who had defied his sentries, and Flint's anxieties materially increased.
It taxed all his stock of personal piety, and strengthened the belief he was beginning to harbour that Mrs.
Hay had some use for the horses at night, some sojourners in the neighbourhood with whom she must communicate, and who could they be but Sue?
Then Mistress McGann, sound sleeper that she used to be, declared to the temporary post commander, as he was, and temporary lodger, as she considered him, that things was going on about the post she'd never heard the likes of before, and that the Mejor would never put up with a minute.
When Mrs McGann said the Major, she meant not Flint, but his predecessor.
There was but one major in her world, the one she treated like a minor.
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