Christine Blashford
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728 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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Together he and Mrs.
Ray hurried in.
Robbers gasped the servant girl.
Gone, the back way, and collapsed on the stairs.
Sergeant and Corporal both tore round to the west side and out of the rear gate.
Not a sign of fugitives could they see, and what was worse, not a sign of sentry.
Number five of the third relief should at that moment have been pacing the edge of the bluff in rear of the northernmost quarters, and yet might be around toward the flagstaff.
Find number five were the sergeant's orders, and back he hurried to the house, not knowing what to expect.
By that time others of the guard had got there, and the officer of the day was coming, the clink of his sword could be heard down the road, and more windows were uplifted, and more voices were begging for information, and then came Mrs.
Dade, breathless but calm.
Within doors she found the doctor ministering to a stout female who seemed to have gone off in an improvised swoon, Mrs.
Blake's imported cook.
Up the stairs to her own room again, Mrs.
Blake was being led by Marian Ray's encircling arm.
Three women were speedily closeted there, for Mrs.
Dade was like an elder sister to these two sworn friends, and not until Mrs.
Dade and they were ready did that lady descend the stairs and communicate the facts to the excited gathering in the parlour, and they in turn to those on the porch in front.
By this time Flint himself, with the poet quartermaster, was on hand, and all Fort Franes seemed to rouse, and Mrs.
Gregg had come with Mrs.
Wilkins, and these two had relieved the doctor of the care of the cook, now talking volubly, and partly through her revelations, but mainly through the more coherent statements of Mrs.
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