Mary Rhody
speaker
967 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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They all loved him.
There wasn't a mean streak in his whole system, set every soldier at Fort Frain.
He had a capital record as a volunteer, a colonel and later brigade commander in the Great War.
He had the brevet of brigadier general of volunteers, but he repudiated any title beyond that of his actual rank in the regulars.
He was that Rara Abis, a bachelor field officer, and a bird to be brought down if feminine witchery could do it.
He was truthful, generous, high minded, brave, a man who preferred to be of and with his subordinates rather than above them, to rule through affection and regard rather than the stern standard of command.
He was gentle and courteous alike to officers and the rank and file.
Though he feared no man on the face of the globe, he was awkward, bungling, and overwhelmingly, lavishly kind and thoughtful in his dealings with the women folk of the garrison, for he stood in awe of the entire sisterhood of the
He could ride like a centaur, he couldn't dance worth a cent.
He could snuff a candle with his colt at twenty paces, and couldn't hit a croquet ball to save his soul or
His deep set grey eyes, under their tangled thatch of brown, gazed straight into the face of every man on the plat, soldier, cowboy, Indian or half breed, but fell abashed if a laundress looked at him.
Billy Ray, captain of the Sorrell troupe and the best light rider in Wyoming, was the only man he ever allowed to straddle a beautiful thoroughbred mare he had bought in Kentucky, but bad hands or good, there wasn't a riding woman at train who hadn't backed Lorna time and again, because to a woman the major simply couldn't say no.
And though his favorite comrades at the post were captains like Blake and Billy Ray, married men both whose wives he worshipped.
The major's rugged heart went out especially to Beverly Field, his boy adjutant, a lad who came to them from West Point, only three years before the autumn this story opens, a young fellow full of high health, pluck, and principle, a tip top soldier, said everybody from the start, until, as Greg and other growlers began to declaim, that
The major completely spoiled him.
Here, three years only out of military leading strings, he was a young cock of the walk, too damn independent for a second lieutenant, set the officers club element of the command, men like Gregg, Wilkins, Crane, and a few of their following.
The keenest young trooper in the regiment, said Blake and Ray, who were among its keenest captains, and
And never a cloud had sailed across the serene sky of their friendship and esteem until this glorious September of eighteen hundred eighty blank.
When Nanette Flower, a brilliant, beautiful brunette, came a visitor to old Fort Frain.
And it was on her account that Major Wood, could he have seen the way said no to the adjutant's request to be absent again.
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