Mary Rhody
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967 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Mary Rhody’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kennedy, sir, and I thank the major.
Then I'll leave you in charge until you've had your fill, said the commander.
Then go over to F troops quarters and get a bed.
Tell anybody who comes I've gone to the flagstaff.
With that the major stalked from the room, followed by the Irishman's adoring eyes.
A moment later he stood by the tall white staff at the edge of the northward bluff, at whose feet the river swept by in musical murmurings.
There he quickly focused his glass and gazed away westward up the plat to where but the evening before a score of Indian lodges dotted the other bank, perhaps two miles away.
The September moon was at its full, and in that rare, cloudless atmosphere, flooding the valley with its soft silvery light, so that close at hand within the limits of the garrison, every object could be almost as distinctly seen as in broad daylight.
But farther away, o'er the lowlands and the river bottom and the rolling prairie stretching to the northern horizon, the cottonwoods along the stream or in the distant swales made only black blotches against the vague, colorless surface, and the bull bluffs beyond the reservation limits south of the flashing waters were
The sharp, saw like edge of the distant mountain range that barred the way to the west was
Even the clean cut outlines of Eagle Butte, the landmark of the northward prairie, visible for fifty miles by day, were now all veiled in some intangible filament that screened them from the soldier's searching gaze.
Later in the season, on such a night, their crest would gleam with radiance almost intolerable the glistening sheen of their spotless crown of snow.
All over this broad expanse of upland prairie and wooded river bed and boldly undulating bluff line, not so much as a spark of fire peeped through the wing of night to tell the presence of human wayfarer, white, half breed or Indian, even where the Sioux had swarmed, perhaps two hundred strong at sunset of the day gone by.
Close at hand, northernmost of the Brown Line, was the double set of quarters occupied by Captains Blake and Ray
The latter, a senior, having chosen the half nearest the bluff, because of the encircling verandah and the fine far extending view.
A bright light gleamed now behind the blinds of the corner room of the second floor and
Telling that the captain was up and dressing in answer to the commander's summons, the
But all the rest of the dozen houses were black, save where at the middle of the row a faint glow came from the open doorway at the commanding officers.
Across the broad level of the parade were the long, low barracks of the troops, six in number, gable ending east and west, and
Closing the quadrangle on the south were the headquarters buildings and the assembly room, the offices of the adjutant and quartermaster, the commissary and quartermaster's storehouses, etc.
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