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21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; course I won't, you ugly piratical frog-soup-eating Frenchy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hit him in the mouth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be fools, you two, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bob Hampton has joined us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yer lie, yer young warmint, cried Dumlow;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bob Hampton wouldn't be such a sneak."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy yonder! roared Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That theer arn't you, is it, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me it is, messmet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, messmet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay. All right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you arn't jyned 'em, have you, lad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, I've jyned, lad, replied Hampton, and then--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, skipper, hadn't I better keep her off a pynte or two?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm blessed, growled Dumlow. Then aloud--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi! Bob, lad, what's to be done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Air we to let 'em pitch us overboard, or air we to jyne?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jyne,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jyne it is, messmet, said Dumlow, in his low growling tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, unlash these blessed ropes, they're a-cuttin' into my arms like hooroar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you'll join us too, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I does same as my two mates, said Blane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I arn't going to be pitched overboard if they arn't. Share and share alike, says I. Fair play's my motto, and no favour. Here, cast off all these here lashins. What d'yer want to tie a fellow up so tight for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take off the ropes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, give 's a drop o' summat; I'm as dry inside as a biscuit-bag."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can I get to them?--How can I get to them?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till daylight then, my lads, and we'll soon have them all out of there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All out of there,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if I only ever have the chance!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for it,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now Bob Hampton will hear me,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! What's that?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, some one; a knife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's going to cut the rope,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it? Trying to get out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dunno! Breaking glass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where? The cabin-windows?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen!--help!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A lantern here, quick!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, cut this line."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could I help 'em to get out when I haven't left the wheel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there was a rope hanging down from the spanker-boom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care if all the ropes in the ship hung down. I arn't moved. Ask them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he hasn't left the wheel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know? How could you see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hadn't he got the binnacle-light on his phiz all the time, captain?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then who did help them? Some one fastened that line. Look, there it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That line doesn't belong there, and wasn't there yesterday, cried Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a traitor somewhere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, cap'n, find him then,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it was you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, don't you shove that pistol in my face, cried Bob Hampton, angrily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if I'd wanted to help 'em to get on deck, do you think I should ha' been such a fool as to tie a bit o' signal halyard to the spanker-boom, when I could ha' made a bit o' strong rope fast to the belaying-pins, and hung it over the stern?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it must have been one of them two, said Bob Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not one of them, said Jarette, with a peculiar intonation in his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not afraid of that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strikes me, growled Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hah! cried Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you helped him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, very well, then, have it your own way if you like; I helped him,-- but how I could ha' done it, I don't know, cap'n, nor them two neither. I don't care. But look here, I'm down tired, and it's time some one else took his trick at the wheel. I want a sleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you play false to me, Bob Hampton, came in tones which made me shiver,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two jours, that's two days, arn't it, skipper?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, hissed the man fiercely;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear lad, he whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were gone. Thank God! thank God!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it horrible?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horrible? he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Captain Berriman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In his cabin wounded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Mr Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yonder. Don't ask."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is any one else hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hardly know how many, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a surprise. We were all mastered by treachery. Some traitor came amongst us, and when the attack began and the ship was seized, we were all fastened in our cabins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some traitor! I said, turning cold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and they thought it must have been you. I heard some one accuse you in the dark, just after I had broken out of my cabin."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was it said I did it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not sure. Everything has been so dark and confused; I fancied for the moment that it was Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe it was, I said stoutly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would not think I could be such a miserable, contemptible wretch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you were not with us, Dale, and people are ready enough to accuse at a time like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Denning did not accuse him, said a weak voice, and there close by us stood Mr Denning himself, looking almost ghastly in the pale morning light which stole into the cabin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alison Dale could not be such a scoundrel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Mr Denning, I said, grasping the hand he held out to me, as with the other he supported himself by resting, as I saw, upon a double-barrelled gun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't defend myself. If I had been the traitor, I should not be here now. I didn't think I could manage it."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you tell us anything about who is at the head of the mutiny? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was cut down, and could hardly understand anything in the darkness, till I seemed to wake and find myself on the saloon-floor, below the table where I must have crawled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, I always mistrusted that man, and the gang he gathered about him. Where is the rest of the crew then; I mean those they did not kill--down in the forecastle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid they have all joined him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; not men like Hampton and Dumlow. They were of a different stamp."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The scoundrels!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no telling what a man may do for dear life,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Walters. Did you see anything of him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor boy! groaned Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never liked him, but it is horrible for him to have come to such an end as this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! I said bitterly, as I found my tongue;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll know soon enough,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, gentlemen, said Mr Denning, speaking now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barricade the companion-way, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you say, Mr Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same as Mr Frewen, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor, you'll have to patch me up so that I can fight a bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your spirit will do more for you than I can, sir, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry to say, though, that Captain Berriman is completely prostrated. He must have received a crushing blow from behind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you will fight?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, said the mate quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, gentlemen, please, the first thing is to pile up all the chests and boxes we have at command in the companion-way, so as to keep out the ruffians. They will get at the drink, and then stop at nothing. I'm afraid I cannot lift, but I can fire a pistol or a gun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I cannot lift, said Mr Denning, with his eyes flashing,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mr Dale, she whispered half hysterically,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I hope not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't--don't speak to me like that, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not a child. Be frank with me, and tell me as if I were your sister. There is danger, is there not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm afraid there'll be a fight, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid not, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But tell me, why is it? Is it what they call a mutiny? I thought all such things were over now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So did I, Miss Denning, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my brother said there was a large sum in specie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Money, that is, isn't it? I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, that's what has tempted the scoundrels. But don't you be frightened. Mr Frewen and the rest will take care that the blackguards don't get into the cabin, and I'm going to try if I cannot fight too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I know you and your brother midshipman will be very brave and fight for us, she said, with a quiet satisfied nod of the head, and I winced as I thought about Walters; but she did not notice it, and went on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had a very narrow escape, did you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I had to run and dodge about in the dark, and then came down a rope, I replied;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me how my brother is, she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he quite safe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, and on guard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is so ill and weak, it frightens me, she said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you are right, she said with a sigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is so hard to be a woman, and not be able to help. I should not mind so much if I could be busy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there is nothing to do now, Miss Denning, I said,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me though--my brother ordered me to stay here in the cabin--tell me--couldn't I be of some help? The captain and mate are both wounded, are they not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a little, I said encouragingly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; do! she cried. Then quickly--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! I must go by what my brother says."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I must go out in the saloon and help. When all is safe I shall see you again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When all is safe,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and it is going to be. Oh, it will be all right. May I take this?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear me--dear me, Alison Dale, said Mr Preddle, rising up from his stooping position very slowly and wiping his broad fat face, which was covered with drops of perspiration,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horrible! I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come into my cabin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think it will come right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I think so, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Denning and Mr Frewen will give the rascals a good peppering and bring them to their senses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so will I! he cried excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never tried to fight seriously since I left school, but I don't see why I shouldn't be able to if I tried,--do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see, he went on mildly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't laugh at you, Mr Preddle, I said;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you will, Alison. You're a brave lad, I know. We'll all try and fight like men against the ruffians. Like lions, eh, Dale? Like lions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure, sir, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, directly, he said hastily, and I saw him turn very red in the face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose the mutineers know that we have a very valuable cargo?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir; I expect that's it, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they're not going to have it. We'll sink the ship first, and escape in one of the boats."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure we will, but it's a sad business, Dale. There is my consignment of salmon and trout. Do you think the scoundrels would let me go and see to them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe they would. Come along."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid you are right. Yes; I'll come directly; but there was something else that I wanted to say to you. Dear me, what a memory I have! Oh, I know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it was about--oh yes--that was it. It's a terrible business, and--how does Miss Denning seem? Does she bear up about it all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, pretty fairly, sir. Of course she is very much alarmed, and she is anxious about her brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she, though? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor girl. Of course, yes, she would be. Did she seem very anxious about any one else--Mr Frewen, for instance?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir; I don't remember that she mentioned him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor girl. No, of course not, nor me neither, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, I'm sure of that, sir, I said decisively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She certainly did not mention your name. But we must go back now, sir, and see if we are wanted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course. Come along,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two more. There, boy, you'll have to try and fight with the rest of us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll try, sir,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, look here, Dale, he said suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, he said, looking at me searchingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I went back on deck to make some inquiries, and when I reached the men's quarters, I was attacked. But I should like to clear that matter up. The steward swears it was not his doing; it would not have been one of the crew. Where is your messmate, Walters?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir. Not that I know of. Last time I saw him he was quite well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Walters is not with us, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? cried Captain Berriman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor lad! Poor lad! Then after a pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a prisoner then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, we suppose so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Walters!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the captain at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To be sure, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no cause for despair with such a formidable arrangement. The scoundrels dare not attack us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Captain Berriman, slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have brought out all the arms, but I have a painful announcement to make. The traitor who came round to secure us in our cabins had carried off all the cartridges he could, and those left in the cases had been deluged with water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great heaven! cried Mr Frewen, excitedly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop a moment! cried Mr Frewen; and he ran into his cabin, to return with a revolver which he threw on the table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Useless, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The case of cartridges gone. Here, Mr Denning, see to your gun,--see what cartridges you have."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! he cried, pettishly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, thank you. It was a horrible thought. I saw some one come out of my cabin last evening, I'm sure now. I thought then it was fancy. Some one has been--to steal--the case of cartridges I brought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one has taken all mine but one, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The lid is off the box, and this is the only one left."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But your gun is loaded?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there are two in that, replied Mr Preddle,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They could not find them. The cartridge-box was at the bottom of the locker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! cried Mr Frewen, triumphantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A hundred, for I have not fired off one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what bore is your gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twelve-bore."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yours?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sixteen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the same size as mine, said Mr Preddle, quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid those of yours would not fit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fit? No! cried Mr Frewen, impatiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They would be absolutely useless."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And of course we could not load in the old-fashioned way if we took out the powder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have the charges in our guns, gentlemen; when they are expended we must trust to Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you examined as to what provisions and water we have, Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, enough for about three days, without counting anything our passenger friends have in the way of private stores--preserved meat, delicacies, or the like."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but the water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must frankly say a very short supply, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This all sounds very bad, Captain Berriman, but we are not going to give in. The ammunition and provisions are on board the ship, and when a besieged garrison runs short, it makes sallies to obtain fresh supplies. But we have not arrived at that starvation point yet. Before then the ship may be under the rule of Captain Berriman once again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hist!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listening, eh?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A guilty conscience needs no accuser, said the mate, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lesson for us in being cautious in making our plans, observed Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Captain Berriman, will you give us our orders?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My first idea is, gentlemen, that one of you stand on guard there by the door, and, if the opportunity offers, he is to shoot down that scoundrel Jarette. They're coming. Now, on guard."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then; do you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You in the cabin--Captain Jarette says you are to understand that he is now master of this ship, and that no harm will be done to any one if you all give up quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if we do not, said Captain Berriman, sharply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is for Captain Jarette to decide,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Jarette! cried our sturdy old officer, furiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, sir, don't you insult me by calling that French scoundrel by such a title. And look here, are you making this announcement of your own free will, or are you forced by that contemptible mongrel knave to deliver his insolent message?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no compulsion, captain, and no need for you to call names, without you wish to be punished for your insolence. I am Captain Jarette, sir, and this is my good ship, these are my good brave men. Brave enfans--do you hear, bons enfans. This lad is my young lieutenant, who, like the rest, was sick of the vagaries of such a tyrannical old wretch as you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You dog!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dog, sir, so don't tease me into biting, or I may use my teeth sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You, Walters, cried the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I am not a prisoner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you have not joined these mutinous scoundrels, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear me, boy? Answer me, you--Oh no, it is impossible."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you answer the good kind captain, Lieutenant Walters?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! you're too modest? All right, dear boy, I'll answer for you. Yes, he has joined me, skipper, as my right hand, to help navigate our ship. Do you hear--our ship? He was sick of your bullying and domineering, just as we all were. I had only to ask the lads if they were not tired of being slaves, to have them join me at once. And now you've often talked to me; let me talk to you for your good. No more bad language, please, unless you want to go overboard to join those fools who showed fight last night. Be civil, and you shall be decently treated, till I set you afloat or ashore, as seems best to me. There, we only want to say--don't play the fool, and let the doctor and those passengers think they can do any good by resisting. We don't want to make any of you bleed. What have you been doing to the door to keep it from opening? Have it pulled down, and come out like sensible people."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't answer him, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you hear? cried Jarette, savagely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open the door, or I'll put a few pounds of powder up against it and blow it in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come and touch the door, cried the captain, sternly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What? cried Jarette, mockingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You blow my brains out, fool!--what with?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You grinning idiots, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Serve him right! cried Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take him below. I'll have the doctor out and send him down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, Berriman, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and open it yourself, you half-French poodle hound, cried the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bragging idiot, cried Jarette, fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; Captain Berriman prefers to stay on board to see me pay you back in your own coin, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, sir, who's the braggart now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you're there then? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must punish some of my lads for only half doing their work. There, you are not so mad as Berriman is. Never mind the fool; open the door, and don't make me savage, so that I am tempted to go to extremities. Do you hear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll answer for Mr Brymer, cried the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he cried, raising his voice so that every one present might hear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you wish to escape being shot down, keep away from that door-way; for by all that is holy we will shoot the first ruffian who tries to open it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Powder! said Jarette, laconically,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try and make more of an opening, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must have full play for the guns."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That ought to do, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If one of us stands aside and watches, he can tell the others when to fire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! but that will require care, said the captain, quickly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can shoot them, said Mr Denning, quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not like to take life, but I feel that I must fire now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then keep your gun, sir, said Captain Berriman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Denning, in a low voice, almost a whisper to himself,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah! cried Jarette, then in a triumphant tone--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? Lay the powder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! Don't show the white feather, boy. It must be done. What? You won't?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Walters, quickly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've got a spite against me, and will shoot me. Let some one else."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand aside then, he growled,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't all want to do the job? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not one to volunteer? Why, you laugh at me, and call me Frenchy, and brag about your English pluck, and not one man will come forward. Here you, Bob Hampton, your trick's over at the wheel; come and lay this powder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, to blow in the cabin-door? came in familiar tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, skipper; only I don't know much about powder to make trains. You wet in, don't wild-fire on it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! stand aside. Here you, Blane, lay that powder close up door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What me, skipper? Anything in going aloft and settin' sail; but I know no more about gunpowder than a babby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get out of the way, idiot. Where's Dumlow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which here I be,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, lay hold of this powder, and plant it, my lad, and then lay a train."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take that there powder and lay a train?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! You dare--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lookye here, skipper, growled Dumlow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and it will go off, cried Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to be obeyed by this crew, as I've just shown you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, but don't poke pestles in my face; 'cause it make me hit out, and when I hits out I hurts. You ask some one else."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goin' to plant it yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you brave Englishman, sneered Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to show you what your captain can do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shoot the scoundrel!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible, without he comes into sight,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you see him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; he is pushing a bag of powder right in up against the door, and now sprinkling handfuls of powder up to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You come away, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, man! Here, every one lie down at the far end of the saloon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you do anything with that, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my lad. Quite impossible to reach it effectually."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take off the barrels from that gun!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One minute, sir, and I'll show you, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me come there, Mr Denning."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That don't matter, Berriman, cried Jarette;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No need to pour away the precious drops now, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we must have down some of those chests so as to get at the powder easily."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well! said the captain grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you bring down your gaol-bird, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, replied Mr Denning, as he drew back and began to reload."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not see any one, only that a bag of powder was being thrust along the deck with a hand-spike, and I fired at where I thought a man might be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And hit him, seemingly, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, we must down with some of these trunks."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Dale, look out and see how matters stand,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could you reach the powder-bags with a walking-stick? I mean one with a hook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; but I could easily run out and pick them up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; never mind, said the captain;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we shall have to do it, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't do much, but I could and I would lick Walters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mean, contemptible coward! I muttered, as I gazed at him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you may stand there as cocky as you like with your pistols, but they don't frighten me. You daren't fire them, and you showed what a coward you were when you were told to lay the powder here and--Hallo!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cunning wretch,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me have the walking-stick now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right, my lad. Get yours, Mr Preddle, with the big hook."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is the stick,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it? cried Mr Frewen, excitedly;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come, that's better, said the captain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there it is, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, well, this is no time for praise, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did your duty well, my lad. Yes, it would have been a pity to have thrown the stuff overboard, we might have wanted it to send back with our compliments, eh? Leaden ones. What is it, Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hist! Jarette is outside, looking astonished that the powder has not done any damage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he'll be trying it again,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't you aim straight, man?--why didn't you aim straight? cried Captain Berriman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did not touch him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not try to hit him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why did you fire, sir? A loud noise is not likely to frighten such a man as that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; but the idea of being shot at, and the explosion of that loose powder about his ears has startled him, and he'll be careful about coming up to the door to lay powder-bags again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you fired to light the loose powder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and it has had its effect, though I hesitated for a moment for fear the bag should not be far enough off. Where did you put it, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Along with the other in Mr Preddle's cabin,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take my place, Mr Preddle, said Mr Denning to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must go back to our cabin and speak to my sister. She will be terribly alarmed by the firing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I go and speak to her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you are afraid to take my place,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I thought--I wanted--I wished to save you trouble, stammered the stout passenger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you; my piece is loaded."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good example, captain, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can keep on guard here while you people all have some refreshment. They must need it, for I'm sure I do."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, my dear, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but I can have something at any time, Captain Berriman, when you are all busy protecting us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, cried Captain Berriman,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Dale, lad, eat away. Don't say you've got no appetite."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I'm pretty hungry, sir, I replied;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't despair, my lad, it will come all right. Why, they must have given us nearly all the powder in those two bags you brought in, and if they don't mind, you and I will make a contrivance to hoist them with their own petard. But I don't want to shed blood if I can help it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I said, with a shudder,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only, he continued slowly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see that, and of course we cannot be expected to be merciful to them who would blow us up with gunpowder. Why, they wouldn't have cared if the ladies had been injured as well as the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are quite right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you did not shoot Jarette this morning, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Dale, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't. Doctors have spent all their time learning how to save life, and it would have been such a cold-blooded act."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if you had shot him, sir, the mutiny would have been at an end."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless your messmate, Walters, had constituted himself captain, and carried on the war."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He! I cried contemptuously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I'd go and fetch him out by one ear the same as a dog or a pig out of a drove. I believe, sir, that he is a regular coward and sneak."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, well, we shall see, replied Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But look here, Mr Frewen, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Worse than mad, my boy, for what can they do if they keep us down, and carry this vessel into port, which I doubt their ability to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, they can do that, I said quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bob Hampton is such a capital sailor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A capital scoundrel, he cried hotly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you won't, Mr Frewen, I said, laughing;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Dale, I'm afraid that if I did, I should want a boat lowered down to pick him up, and go in it myself. There, as you say, it is a mad thing for the men to have done. It shows how a whole party can be carried away by the specious arguments of one scoundrel. However, we know our duty, my lad; and that is to re-take the ship, place the worst of the men in irons, and make the others navigate the vessel, unless you advocate our hanging the worst of them instead of putting them in irons."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are no irons on board a ship like this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, and there is plenty of rope, my lad; so you advocate hanging?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't make a joke of it all, Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right, he said sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will be wise over it all. Hallo, Mr Brymer is making signs for us to be quiet. The captain is going to speak."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, Mr Frewen, I whispered;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, I said;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, quick--quick!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything the matter there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, no, sir, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep back there, everybody. Now, Dale, up on end with it."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, lads; altogether, and out she comes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, said the same voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor lad; he's got it bad, arn't he?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead? Overboard with him if he is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he arn't dead, said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctors don't die in a hurry. He'll come to and cure hisself, I dessay. Come on, mate."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steady, lad,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heave then, together. No, hold hard; the corner of that portmanter's over his hind leg. That's it; hyste it away."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor laddie, growled Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Orful,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reg'lar wusser,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look sharp there, my lads, cried Jarette, from somewhere overhead, which must have been the poop-deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That one dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a liar, Barney Blane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he's dead, pitch him overboard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he arn't dead, captain, growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's stuff enough in him to make a full-sized sailor yet, and he's far too good to be chucked over to the sharkses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Barney Blane said he was dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you take no notice o' what Barney Blane says, skipper, cried Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He dunno chalk from cheese best o' times, and I know he can't tell a dead man from mutton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear, hear, mate! cried Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haw, haw, haw; we'll chuck the boy overboard if you like, capt'n; but there's a kick in one of his hind legs, an' I see him wink and waggle one ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him lie there a bit till I come round, cried Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go on and clear that cabin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, cried the three men who were near."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, lads. Here, Barney, go and get that there pannikin o' water from the breaker, and pour some in the boy's mouth. What yer go and say he were dead for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, mate, I thought as he were. He had enough to ha' killed a man, let alone a boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look sharp, and we'll pull him and the doctor through, see if we don't. I don't think no bones is broke. Them chesties sheltered 'em."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look sharp, lads, said Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must give the jollop purser a drop more, said Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, he arn't dead neither; takes the water down as free as if it were grog. They'll come right agen, won't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, to be sure, said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, heave ahead afore he comes. Rum games these here, messmets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rum arn't the right word,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, for more strength--could have saved--"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This boy's dead enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he is,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes; try him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; he's dead enough, I shouted as loudly as I could--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm not!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just like him, he said, with a contemptuous shrug of his shoulders."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shamming again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, I like that, I said faintly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, your life's all sham."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let him be, he said shortly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, young Dale, where are you hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I'm not hurt at all, I said, speaking with a good deal of pain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind him, boy, said Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, then; it's only a change in your captain, and I dare say you can be useful. What do you say to joining me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, turning mutineer and pirate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you use ugly words, boy, he said, with a scowl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, I offer you good terms; will you join us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't want midshipmen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know, boy? Join us, and serve under me. It will only be like going on again with your old messmate here, and I dare say I can promote you faster than you would have been under Captain Berriman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But where are we going? What do you mean to do with the ship?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that to you? There, I offer you your chance; will you join us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would if I was you, Mr Dale, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you rouse up the doctor and make him tend to me, for I'm afraid I've got some broken ribs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! We will,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; don't trust him. He is a traitor, and he would only play the spy."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Traitor! sham! I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to be hung for turning against your captain as you did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't trust him, Jarette; he'd only betray us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If ever I get a chance, I will, if it's only for the sake of seeing you get your deserts, you miserable hound! I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm not fit to be trusted, Jarette, I cried, now quite beside myself with rage and pain;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you hear, lieutenant? said Jarette, with a sneering laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you go and serve him out for threatening you? He's about helpless if his ribs are broken, and couldn't hurt you back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to meddle with the miserable, sneaking cur, he said contemptuously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you needn't banter me; I've saved you from being cheated by him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't know, said Jarette, gazing at Walters through his half-closed lids;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dare say it was all talk, for he wouldn't have dared to play tricks. But I say, lieutenant, he has got a stouter heart than you have. He'd be too much for you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take care, youngster, he half whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've got a hasty tongue, and it stings sometimes. Mind I don't turn and sting again. Recollect you've committed yourself so deeply that you are mine now; and recollect, too, that I'm captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know, said Walters, sharply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hate him, said Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I know you do. There, that's enough. Here, some of you, which cabin is empty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Second one on the left,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the door broken by the powder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; it's all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carry 'em both in, said Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fasten 'em up, and bring me the key. There, youngster, he continued to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sending the doctor with you to set you right."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up, Mr Dale, sir, said Dumlow, bluffly, for he was one of the men who had helped to carry in Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They won't starve yer. If they do I'll bring you some o' my wittles and drink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Dumlow, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shut up, sir, in their cabins, like precious crocks in a cupboard, that's where they are; and now you're just the same, only you've got a crack in you somewheres."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very kind of them to send me a doctor; why, I shall have to doctor him."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Frewen, and I laid my hand on his forehead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I say, do, do pray try and speak. Tell me what to do for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Frewen, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you say a word?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen, do you know me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Know you?--know you? Yes, of course, he said hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter?--what has happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were hurt when the powder went off, I said, watching his face eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you remember?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he cried eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I threw myself back over the barricade with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the door and all the boxes and chests were blown in and buried us, I think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was--was any one killed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know; I think not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But don't you know, boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I was hurt by the chests the same as you were, and don't know what happened. It was all like being in a dream till a little while ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you know nothing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only have a sort of misty recollection of lying there after the explosion, till I was carried out on deck and laid in the sun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The scoundrel!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I thought it very jolly of him then, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right to the bottom of the sea,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; and you seem to have been hurt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt? I should think I was, horribly, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the passengers, Dale? he said excitedly, as he tried to sit up, but sank back with a groan;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you see anything to suggest that any one was killed and--and thrown overboard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go out then and make inquiries, my good lad, he said piteously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forget,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forget? What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That we are prisoners. I couldn't get out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, he moaned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I forgot. My head is all confused and strange. What's that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one knocking gently at the bulk-head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there is some one else a prisoner, he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, speak to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better not speak, I said;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That only stands for some one being there, said Mr Frewen, with a sigh;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, we have,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, Mr Preddle. Who are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale and Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does he say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Says he is so glad, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank him, and ask him about the passengers, whether any one is hurt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Berriman and Mr Brymer both wounded again in the struggle, when the men rushed into the saloon after the explosion. Now shut up in their cabins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the passengers; ask him about the passengers,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one hurt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, what will those wretches do with us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will they kill us and throw us overboard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I whispered through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they had meant that, they would have done it at once. But don't talk any more now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buzz, buzz, buzz."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buzz, talk, buzz, buzz."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll wait; but when one is in prison, and can talk to the prisoners next door, it does seem to do one good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I cried impatiently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a word,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were out on the deck some time, weren't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; a long time, I replied impatiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could you see how my poor fishes were getting on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I couldn't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Mr Frewen, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leave it alone, he said, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To help get back the ship?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, of course. Now then, my lad, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will not mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then go to that drawer, and you will find scissors, lint, bandages, and strapping."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now get water, sponge, and towel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now go to work and cut away the hair, so that you can see what damage is done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm afraid--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of hurting you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then set that aside, boy, he said, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A surgeon must take all the care he can, but he must not be afraid of hurting his patient. Go on."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! he said, with a little laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A mere scratch. Why, if it were a patient I was attending--you, for instance--I should say you were making a miserable fuss about nothing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it is very bad, sir, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you were quite insensible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Dale, that was the contusion. One of the chests must have been driven against my head like a square shot. Well, there's one comfort, the skull isn't cracked. Now cut some strips of that plaister, and place them across and across."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not pleasant stuff, Dale, he said, smiling feebly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is that you have taken? I asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only ammonia--sal volatile--a capital stimulus when faintness comes on. There, I'm better now, and I dare say I shall do. I can examine you now. Ribs broken, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought so, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm sure you are wrong, my lad. If your ribs, or even one rib, had been fractured, you could not have gone on working for me like that. You would have been in agony."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it does hurt pretty tidily, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps so, Dale, but not to the extent it would under those circumstances. There, I'm better now. Help me to sit up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Feel faint, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horrible, Dale, but I will master it. This is no time for giving way like a young lady in a hot room. There, that's better. Nothing like making a fight for it. Come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no; I'm not very much hurt, sir, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till you are easier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come closer, he said firmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Off with your jacket, and open the neck of your shirt."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, he cried at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I shan't want strapping or bandaging, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I'll give you some arnica to bathe the place with. You'll have some terrible bruises all up your side, but that will be all. Now then, my lad, that we have repaired damages, the next thing is to see what we can do for other people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and about re-taking the ship,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale, I've been thinking that if Mr Frewen could seize the man who opens your door and attends upon you, and hold him while you ran out and opened mine, you and I could then go and open two more cabins, and so on, and then we could seize the ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said heavily, and there was a pause. Then just as I was dropping off to sleep again--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to do it when it is dark. I'm quite strong, and not hurt a bit. Do you think Mr Frewen is well enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I think we ought to try to-night. But what is your opinion of Mr John Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't any opinion of him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but that's not fair. He certainly is very irritable, but he might be useful, and I think he is brave. A man who is in bad health is frequently irritable, and if we have to fight, as I suppose we very likely shall have to, his irritability would be of great advantage to us, because it would be vented upon our enemies."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There don't seem to be much chance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never know what is going to happen, my lad, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for me, I feel quite cheerful about our prospects. These men never can get on without quarrelling, and if they are divided, then is our chance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But suppose they do not quarrel, and are not divided?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't suppose impossibilities, Dale. I've been at sea long enough to understand a little about sailors. This man Jarette has won their ear for the time, but he will soon begin to behave tyrannically to them, and then they will be as ready to rebel against him as they were against Captain Berriman. We have to wait for that moment, and take advantage of it if we can."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we have only to loosen a board or two on my side, go through, watch our opportunity, and then go from cabin to cabin and let out our friends; then wait till the mutineers are all quiet below, and fasten the hatches tight down upon them. Alison Dale, my dear boy, we shall re-take the ship, save the ladies, and I shall, after all, get across with the greater part of my consignment of salmon and trout."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very easy in theory, Preddle, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my dear Frewen, don't throw cold water on the plan, pray,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a drop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you will try?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes; anything that promises success in any shape. We cannot sit still. We must master them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But are you strong enough to try?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll make myself strong enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then which board shall we try to loosen first?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hist! some one coming,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Treacherous brute!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dead yet then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, doctor, you've patched yourself up, I see. What do you say to come under my flag?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prison flag!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, my good friend; in my little kingdom I am going to found. What do you say to a lovely spice island, all sunshine and flowers, where I can start a new civilisation? I offer you a fine position there as the only doctor. What do you say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, of course,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you'll think better of it. I've started the idea too suddenly for you now you're sore; but you'll come round, and the sooner you do the more comfortable you'll be. It must come to that. You'll have no other chance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall see,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, he said, in a sharp, fierce way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're thinking of escaping--listen to this, boy, he added, turning sharply to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he continued,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful, so I nodded to him as much as to say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, cried Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coming on deck?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; those fish of yours want seeing to; I had to lift out half-a-dozen this morning with that string ladle of yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The little net? cried Mr Preddle, eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was very good of you. How do they all seem?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As if they wanted their master to come and feed them. They all swam up to the top and put their mouths out of the water; didn't they, Hampton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, that's so, growled Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, that was for fresh air. They'll all be dead soon, I'm afraid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why don't you come and attend to 'em?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I, Mr Jarette?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure you may, sir. You've only got to satisfy me that you've thrown over these people here, whom I have been obliged to shut up for violence. Cast in your lot with us, and there you are, quite free; and I'll--come, I'll make you naturalist to my expedition, and one of the chief men of my island."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naturalist to your expedition? faltered Mr Preddle, wondering at the language used by a man whom he had heretofore looked upon as a common sailor, perfectly uneducated, and ready for any amount of violence and rapine,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But have you got an island?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Waiting for me to go and take it, sir; and there you can study nature at home,--just the place for gentlemen like you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, yes, that it is,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll join us then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The weak limp wretch,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, you said that I was a gentleman. I am, and gentlemen cannot do such things as that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not take up a delightful life yonder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; the cost is too great. I should have to be false to my class, and to my companions in misfortune here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bah!--they are not so squeamish. They come, all of them, and are glad. You will join us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But your fish--dying!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor things! It is a disappointment, sir; but I cannot do as you wish me to, even to save them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Idiot!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My fish--my fish--my poor little fish! muttered Mr Preddle;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he whispered,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank heaven! I was afraid the poor captain had been murdered."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whose voice was that, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning's, I'm sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, the lady's cry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--don't know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do--you do! he cried wildly, as he caught me by the breast;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I half fancied it was Miss Denning shrieked out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he groaned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and I am shut up like this. Is there no way of escape?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was that shot?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy, sir; easy it is. You'd best ask the skipper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, who was that shot just now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I says, ask the skipper, sir. It ain't my business. My business is to bring you out. You're wanted, and you're to bring your tools."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wanted? To attend the injured person?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose so, replied Hampton, with brutal callousness; and just as Jarette approached,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the captain, ask him."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, where are you going, youngster?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you're not. Go back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he'll want me to help him! I cried excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; come with me, my lad!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, this way, said Jarette, fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put that thing away, madman, and show me my patient. Which cabin is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That one, said Jarette, surlily. Then showing his teeth, he said in a peculiar tone of voice--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They say it's kill or cure with your set; let it be cure this time, or perhaps it may be kill afterwards. Come on. Go in there."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and help me, Dale, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps--I can help, said the captain faintly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The scoundrel shot me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't try to talk, said Mr Frewen, quickly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till I have bandaged the wound."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it very bad, doctor? he whispered now after Mr Frewen had been busy about his breast, and shoulder for a few minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can tell me, I can bear it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bad enough, but not so bad as it might have been if it had gone an inch lower. But keep quiet, talking will only distress you, and tend to make you feverish. There, he said at last,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He came in--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! don't tell me; I know--as he did to us with inviting propositions. We heard your angry words, and the coward shot at you. But that shriek, surely it was Miss Denning's?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, whispered the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bullet crashed through there afterwards and struck Mr Denning. Not hurt, but his sister shrieked on hearing the shot and seeing him fall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then they are in there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And can hear our words?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then let them hear that we are trying hard to put an end to this miserable state of affairs. Mr Denning should be ready to help us if called upon."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, doctor, you must be done if you can find all that time for talking. Can you save him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am trying, sir, if only to be prepared to have a witness against you when the time comes for your punishment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, of course, doctor, we know all about that. This way, sir. Now, boy. Come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye, Captain Berriman, I said, as I leaned over my poor officer and pressed his hand. Then in a whisper--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up! Perhaps we shall re-take the ship after all."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose Jarette must have used about all there is now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you know? he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a large quantity on board. It is being taken--across for blasting purposes in New Zealand. Jarette, I suppose, helped with the lading, and knew where it was stowed. That accounts for its being brought out so soon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pity we can't give them a dose of it, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, with that part of the deck blown up and a dozen or so of wretched mutilated creatures lying about shrieking for help. Well, Dale, I dare say there is one of the bags somewhere about the cabins, but I don't think you could use it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, now you talk like that, I don't think I should like to,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure you would not, boy. You and I could not fight that way. We must have a better way than that."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless it was you, Dale, he whispered apologetically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You certainly did seem to understand them almost as well as I did myself. Ah, I'd give almost anything to be out there attending to the poor little things, but I could not go at the cost that was proposed."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sound asleep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Mr Preddle, said Mr Frewen,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to be a very hopeless case, Dale, said my companion at last with a sigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we shall make a big hole, I objected,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course. It looks very hopeless, my lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see we want holes, sir, so that we could take out one board from top to bottom quite whole, and put it back just as it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but how are we to do that without tools?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought doctors always had a lot of tools, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! he ejaculated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My head has not come right yet after that injury. Why, look here, lad!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We draw the line at choppers, Dale, he said, smiling;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Splendidly! I cried in delight, as I quite gloated over the bright steel saw."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, with one of those I can get a whole board out in an hour or two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without being heard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't think of that, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's see what noise it would make."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Mr Frewen, quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must wait till night; and it will be a very much longer task than you think, because we shall have to work so slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till night!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Non!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind, I said to myself;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And is he in a dangerous state?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; only a little feverish, as the natural result of his wound."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was what made you stay so long then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, no, he replied, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I tried to impose upon our new captain by assuming to be very much concerned about poor Berriman's state; but I had another reason as well. I wanted to try and have a few words with the Dennings, whom I could hear in the next cabin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; and did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I was too closely watched. I could have whispered to them through the hole made by the bullet; but Jarette was at the door all the time that he was not in the cabin watching me, and I could not say anything aloud for them to hear without his knowing what I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know what I should have done,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Told them what our plans were in French."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would have been clever, he said dryly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How absurd! I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, in German."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Equally absurd, Dale. I hardly know a word."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, in Latin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My studies in Caesar and Horace never gave me the power to be conversational, Dale,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, said Mr Preddle, almost petulantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So are we, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help us, then, by keeping guard by your door, and at the slightest sound outside giving us the alarm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes; of course,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you going to begin? I whispered, after listening at the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I bore some holes first to make a way in for the saw?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will not be necessary, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can manage to cut a way across the last board but one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not the last?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not enough room to work. I shall try to cut in a sloping way to splay the board if I can, so that it will fit better when we put it back--if we get one out. Hush!--don't talk."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only for a few minutes' breath,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I take a turn?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we cut the bottom one. I am taller and stronger, and can get at this better than you."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A cloud,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you getting on?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you hear me there? I says, how are you getting on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bob Hampton!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pst! Steady, my lad. Bob Hampton it is. But don't shout, or some 'un 'll hear you, and 'll come along the deck overhead and cut me adrift."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what are you doing there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hanging on to a bit o' line made fast to a belaying-pin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why? What do you want, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will yer keep quiet, my lad? whispered the man, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to hear old Jarette sawing through this rope. What do I want? Come, I like that, arter risking all this here to get a word with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go back to your friends, you scoundrel, whispered Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wheer's my lantern, then? Man can't spy a night like this, when it's as black as inside a water-cask in a ship's hold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen is right, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go back to your friends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arn't got none forrard, leastwise only two; I've come to say `how de do.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't trust him, Mr Frewen, he's a traitor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, I like that, Mr Dale, sir. But I say, how could you be so easily took in? Theer was nothing else for a man to do but to go with the bad beggars, and when I seemed to jyne 'em, why of course Neb Dumlow and old Barney joined at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bob! I ejaculated, as a feeling of delight sent a flush of blood to my cheeks, and I felt hot and excited once more,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I just do, sir. 'Tarn't likely I should run all this risk if I didn't mean it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear, Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, said Bob Hampton, angrily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you are true to us all the same, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True as gorspel, sir; and ready along with Neb Dumlow and Barney Blane to pitch old Frenchy overboard, or drown him in a water-cask, if you say the word, or Mr Frewen either, though I'd rayther take it from you, my lad, as you're one of the officers of the Burgh Castle and it'd come better like than from our doctor, and no disrespectment either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are we to know that we are to trust you, Hampton?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell you dreckly, sir, soon as I can get foot-hold. I'm pretty strong in the arms, but you can't hang by them as long as you can stand on your legs, 'less you're born a monkey, which I warn't. You see there's no board nor nothing to get a foot on, and I knows without trying that I couldn't get through that window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can we help him, Dale? whispered Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose we must trust him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trust him? Yes, of course. Stop a moment. Yes, I know. Then thrusting my arms out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold hard a minute, Bob, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me get hold of the rope and haul up the end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What for, lad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For us to draw in here and make fast, then you can stand in the bight like a stirrup."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you are a wunner, Mr Dale, sir, he replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haul away, there's plenty down below; I should never have thought of that."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah! he whispered, with his face close to the cabin-window,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may trust us, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, my lad, I will, and the least thing as you can do is to trust me and my mates."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, Bob, and I'm sure Mr Frewen will, but we couldn't help thinking you were a traitor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course you couldn't, lad. On'y nat'ral. But you see now as it was on'y make-believe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's my hand, Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thankye kindly, sir. That sounds English, on'y I can't give it a grip, 'cause I'm holding on. But if you'd just stuff one finger in my mouth I'll bite it if you like, to show I mean square and honest by you all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind that, Hampton, said Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right it is then, said Bob Hampton, with a satisfied grunt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you help us to escape, Bob? I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't we re-take the ship?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Steady, my lad, don't get out o' breath. That's what we come about, and Neb Dumlow's bylin' over to do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell us first what is the state of affairs,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "State of affairs is, that all the orficers and you the doctor, along with the passengers, is prisoners, and Frenchy Jarette's skipper of the Burgh Castle, with that there rat of a 'prentice or middy, or whatever he calls hisself, first mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where are we going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody knows but Frenchy, and there is times when I think he don't know. For he's as mad as a whole cargo o' hatters or he'd never ha' done what he has. But look sharp, sir, I can't stop long. If he found out, he'd cut the rope and send me adrift as soon as look at me, and that would be a pity, 'cause if there's one man as I do respeck and like it's Bob Hampton, mariner, spite of his looks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we'll be quick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is anything the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh lor'! Here I goes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no; it's all right, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was only Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it was Frenchy, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! No, nothing wrong. Help come, whispered Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Hampton, what can you suggest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, I've been thinking that if you gents--Pst!"
}
]
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