Christine Blashford
speaker
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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Dade, were the facts made public.
Margaret, the cook, had a room to herself on the ground floor adjoining her kitchen.
Belle, the maid, had been given the second floor back in order to be near to her young mistress.
Bitzer, the Blake's man of all work, like McGann, a discharged soldier, slept in the basement at the back of the house, and there was he found blinking, bewildered, and only with difficulty aroused from stupor by a wrathful sergeant.
The cook's story, in brief, was that she was awakened by Mrs Blake's voice at her door, and thinking Belle was sick, she jumped up and found Mrs.
Blake in her wrapper, asking was she, Margaret, upstairs a moment before?
Then Mrs Blake, with her candle, went into the dining room, and out jumped a man in his stocking feet from the captain's den across the hall, and knocked over Mrs Blake and the light, and made for her, the cook, whereat she screamed and slammed her door in his face, and that was really all she knew about it.
But Mrs.
Blake knew more.
Awakened by some strange consciousness of stealthy movement about the house, she called Belle by name, thinking possibly the girl might be ill and seeking medicine.
There was sound of more movement but no reply.
Mrs.
Blake's girlhood had been spent on the frontier.
She was a stranger to fear.
She arose, struck a light, and seeing no one in her room or the guest chamber and hallway, hastened to the third room, and was surprised to find Belle apparently quietly sleeping.
Then she decided to look about the house, and first went down and roused the cook.
As she was coming out of the dining room, a man leapt past her in the hall, hurling her to one side and dashing out the light.
Her back was toward him, for he came from Gerald's own premises known as the den.
In that den directly opposite was one of her revolvers loaded.
She found it, even in the darkness, and hurrying forth again, intending to chase the intruder and alarm the sentry at the rear, encountered either the same or a second man close to the back door, a man who sprang past her like a panther, and darted down the steps at the back of the house, followed by two shots from her Smith and Wesson.
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