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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But Field was the busiest man at the post.
Other youngsters, troop or company subalterns, had far more time at their disposal, and begged for rides and dances, strolls and sports which the post adjutant was generally far too busy to claim.
It was Esther who brought Lawn Tennis to Frayne, and found eager pupils of both sexes, but Field had been the first to meet and welcome her.
Had been for a brief time at the start her most constant cavalier.
Then as others began to feel the charm of her frank, cordial, joyous manner, and learnt to read the beauty that beamed in her clear, truthful eyes, and winsome yet not beautiful face, they became assiduous in turn.
Two of them almost distressingly so were
And she could not wound them by refusals.
Then came a fortnight in which her father sat as a member of a court martial, down at Old Fort Laramie, where were the band, headquarters, and four troops of the blanket.
And Captain and Mrs.
Freeman, who were there stationed, begged that Mrs.
Dade and Esther should come and visit them during the session of the court.
There would be all manner of army gayies and a crowd of outside officers and
And as luck would have it, Mr Field was ordered tither as a witness in two important cases.
The captain and his good wife went by stage and
Esther and Beverly rode every inch of the way in saddle, camping overnight with their joyous little party at Labont.
Then came a lovely week at Laramie, during which mister Field had little to do but devote himself to and dance with Esther and
And when his final testimony was given, and he returned to his station, and not until then did
Esther Dade discovered that life had little interest or joy without him.
But Field rode back unknowing, and met a train before Esther Dade's return, a girl who had come almost unheralded, making the journey over the medicine bow from Rock Springs on the Union Pacific in the comfortable carriage of old Bill Hay, the post trader of the
Escorted by that redoubtable woman, Mrs.
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