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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'yer say, messmate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, I say, mind what you're arter, cried Barney, angrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You kicked me right in the chin. I don't want my teeth loosened that how."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, he's a-comin' back,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't you get any farther?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. Neb's two sizes too large for the place, and I'm one size. I got as far as he did, and if I'd moved a bit farder I should ha' stuck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yer didn't go as far as I did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I did, mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How d'yer know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rayther hot in there, sir, and Neb had swallowed up all the fresh air there was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And precious little too. I could ha' swallowed bucketsful more if I'd had it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lor'! what a fuss you two chaps make, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knowed that's how it would be. There, shut your eyes, both on you, and see yer father do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not going, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I am, sir. I can do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, let him go, said Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a reg'lar conger-eely sort o' fellow, as can wiggle hisself through a gas-pipe a'most. You let him go, and see what he can do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, let me have a try,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't us better have a biscuit and a drink of water first, sir? said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm strange and hungry yet."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah, my brave! He won't die. Well, let him. He'll be out of the way."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've got some good stuff forrard there, lads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, o' course. I know, growled Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, sir, here's where there was a whole lot o' cases o' champagne stored, and they fished them out, and left this here hole as we're in. I wouldn't mind a drop o' that now to cheer us up again. It's werry good stuff, ain't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, champagne, Bob? I don't know. They say it is, but I never tasted it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More didn't we, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You speak for yourself, old man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you ain't tasted it, and you know it, growled Bob,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I can't say as ever I did taste champagne, said Barney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what does?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joeydone, or Sueydone, or something like that they calls it. It arn't so very bad. Might go now, sir, mightn't I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, yes, if you mean to try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I mean to try, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dessay I can manage it. Shall I start?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'd better save his wind, grumbled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll want it soon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, that's the worst o' young chaps, they're so wasteful, muttered Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they thinks they knows best. How are you getting on, messmate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tidy--tidy! came back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It arn't so very tight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When he holloas, let's fetch him out with a will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, but he don't holloa, said Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, he've got farder than we did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, not he. Why, he have though!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's going to do it, Bob!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Getting a bit farder, sir, that's all, replied Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But what I wants to know is, how are we going to get hold on his legs when he gets stuck? There won't be no reaching on 'em, as I can see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hadn't yer better hail him to hold hard, and come back for us to hitch a line round one of his fins?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which line would you use, messmate? said Bob dryly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old 'un or the noo 'un?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh? Which on 'em?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay. Why, there arn't no line down here, is there? What yer talking about?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, muttered Dumlow, thoughtfully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I d'know, without old Jarette comes and has the cargo out. Why, where's he got to!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's hitched,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are you, mate?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knowed he would, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's got fast, and now what's to be done?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy, messmate! cried Bob now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you stuck fast?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's wrong, my lad? What is it? he said, almost surlily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It arn't my fault; I'd go in to pull him back, but I shouldn't get in fur 'fore I was stuck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I said excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then Neb had have to come, and he wouldn't get far arter me for he was stuck too. Then what would you do 'bout pulling us out all three?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, I said, desperately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must not either of you go. The time has come for me to try and save him myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm coming, Blane,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; don't you come, he whispered back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm coming out, and there arn't room for two."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather an awkward kind o' place, sir, he said, and his voice was carried along toward me, so that it sounded as if he were whispering close to my ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One feels like a rat going down a pump to make a meal off the sucker, and a drink o' water after. Don't you try to come, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am in, Barney, I came to help you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thankye, sir; but I'll talk to you when I get out. I'm coming fast now."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are, sir. That's you, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Barney. But you didn't go in feet first?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, head-first; and I come out head-first too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Precious hot in there, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how did you manage? You said you were stuck fast,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I was, matey, for a minute or two, right at the end as far as I could go; for it got too small for me at last."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far did you go in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, that I don't know, sir. Ever so far in, till it got so as I should ha' been stuck fast if I'd gone any farther."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then how could you turn round?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was wider and higher a little bit this side of the narrow part, and I made shift to double myself up pretty close and get round there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then was it there you were stuck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir; but by a bit o' giving and taking I got round, and come out face forrard, as you see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am thankful,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if you come to that, sir, I liked it better when I'd got face outwards; for it arn't nice to feel yourself set fast in among a lot o' cargo which may shift if the ship gives a roll, and there you are, just like a blue-bottle shut in a big book, and come out next year flat and dry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you must be a thin 'un, Barney, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better leave the sea, and take to being first-class messenger to go up and down steam-pipes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be quiet, Bob! I said angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, tell me, Barney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell you what, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it hopeless? Is there no chance of getting to the forecastle bulk-head that way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, I can't say only that you know how far Neb Dumlow got, and then how Bob Hampton got a little farther."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now what's the good o' you talking, messmate? because he did, just a bit farther, said Barney, in a tone full of protest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may just as well say I didn't go three times as far."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I won't say that, lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there is a way on?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kind of a sort of a way, sir. I don't think I could ha' got along if I'd tried ever so hard, 'cause the cargo's jammed up so close to the roof; but a small sort o' man might do it, or p'r'aps I might if old Frenchy keeps me here long enough to get precious thin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But a boy could get along?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, sir, I dessay a boy could; but don't you get thinking it's a regular pipe or a passage, 'cause it arn't. It's all in and out, and over chests and cases and things as don't fit together, or has got settled down; and you have to feel all this as you go, and trust to the tips of your fingers for leading of you right. It arn't as if there was any light, you see; 'cause their ain't enough to show a mouse the way to the inside of a Dutch cheese."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then if any one got along there far enough, he would come to the forecastle bulk-head?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that I can't say, sir; 'cause, you see, he might find he had to creep along right under the forksle floor, and the men's bunks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he got to the place where our friends are, that would not matter, I cried excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The distance must be very small."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O' course, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But one moment, Barney. Could any of the cargo be pushed out of the way, so as to make more room?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, for sartain, 'cause it's all wedged together, and there's nowhere else to put it so as to make room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I don't see, if one got there, that it could be a great deal of good, because they couldn't get here, and we couldn't all get there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They seems to think it would be some good, sir, growled Barney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give 'em the sigginals, Bob,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all very pretty, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only way to do that is to tell them so, I cried passionately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even if nothing more comes of it, I feel as if it would be something to feel that you can communicate with your friends when you like. We might contrive something too, some means of escape. Yes, we must get to them, my lads."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you'll have to starve down, Barney, till you're as thin as a skelington, said Bob,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, messmate, I'm willin', said Barney, with a sigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like going without my wittles, but what we gets here arn't much to lose. There you are then, Mr Dale, sir; starve me down till I'm small enough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Barney, I said firmly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My hand on it, sir, if you'll shake it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall keep as close to you as I can, sir, said the sailor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't want any telling which way to go, for there is only one way for you to get along, as you'll soon find out."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't get through there, can you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it is pretty tight, sir, but I did it afore, and I've got to do it again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good job as one's bones give a bit, sir, he was saying, when the knocking ahead came clearly, and seemed not so very far away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give 'em an answer, sir; not too loud. Do it with your knuckles on something."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's going to keep on doing that? I cried angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They must wait."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, growled Barney;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd go on, sir. That arn't doing nobody no good."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mustn't make quite so much noise, sir, he whispered;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear the rats, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to be close to where I turned myself round, sir. Aren't there more room?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then that's it, sir. Eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't speak."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But some one did, sir. It arn't them in the forksle, is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you getting on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's them behind, sir. I'll lay down flat as I can, and you whisper back as we're all right. Sound travels easy."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this where you got to, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where there's a big crate thing, sir, as goes right up? That's it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we can't get any farther?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I can; but that tapping wouldn't come so plain if there warn't a way. It weer too tight for me; but you can try if you can't get round the end of the stopper. It may be big enough for you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a way here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, that's what I thought, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it's too small for me, arn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, far too small, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I could get along. Is it any use to try?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I must get through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo you, sir. That's your sort. Take it coolly. Where the head 'll go, the rest on you'll follow if you wiggles yerself well. Don't you get scared, sir. I'll pull you back if you get stuck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's horribly hot here, Barney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir; but I s'pose we mustn't mind that. Go it, sir, and let's get it over."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Having a rest, sir? Say when, and I'll give your feet a shove."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That wins it, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's ahead of you? Can you touch anything?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Takin' a rest again, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, I panted in a hopeless tone of voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm fast, Barney; I can't move."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, you can, sir, he replied;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the packages on each side are holding me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have another go, sir. You don't know how ingyrubbery you are till you try, sir. Take it coolly, sir, then wait your time, and you'll work yourself out just as we did. All three on us got fast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but there was some one to pull Bob Hampton out,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right now, aren't you, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Told you so. Only be careful, sir, I can't help you now."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is any one there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dale; and the three men are with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you force off one of these boards?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. Who is it?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With her brother in their cabin still, I think. Now look here, Dale, we will try and pull out one of these boards, and you and the others must join us here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then either you or we must get out, and the party that gets on deck must help the other. Wait a minute."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better come now, Mr Dale, sir, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can get along here again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I'll come soon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better come now, sir. They're getting scared behind yonder, and seems to me there's on'y just wind enough left for us to breathe going back. If you stop any longer there won't be none, for I shall swaller it all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, go back directly, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come again in a few hours' time, the air will be better again then, and we will cut this hole big enough for you to come through."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's like going aloft when you're young. I remember the first time I went up to the main-topgallant mast-head, I said to myself, `On'y let me once get down safe, and you'll never ketch me up here again;' while now one goes up and does what one has to do without thinking about it, and--Hear that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; what are they bumping about on the deck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dunno, sir. Sounds like getting the big boats off from over the galley. But they won't hear us, sir; let's get back to where we can have a pull at the fresh air. Will you go first?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; you know the way best."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There arn't much queshtion of knowing the way, sir. There arn't no first turnings to the left, and second to the right. It's all go ahead, and you're sure to come out right if you don't get stuck, and I s'pose I mustn't get jammed anywhere 'cause of you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been a long time, sir, growled the former."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you make anything out of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Bob, I reached the forecastle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did, lad! Well done you! I allus thought you'd do something some day."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, my lad, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pig-shearing? What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Much cry and little wool, sir. We've all been crawling about in the hold like rats, and got to where the t'others are--leastwise you have-- and then you've come back again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Taken all that trouble for nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, but I have been able to talk to them, and make plans."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah, sir, I don't call them plans. What was the good of us all getting smothered as we was, just to find out as we couldn't do nothing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I communicated with Mr Brymer and Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And said `How de do? I'm quite well thank you, how are you?' Didn't pay for the trouble, sir. We must do something better than that. What do you say, Neb?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I says as I arn't going to squeedge my carcadge into that hole again if I knows it, messmate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you, Barney?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, all! _Vite_! _vite_! Tumble up."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, look sharp, cried the same voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You go next, my lad, growled Bob,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold still, will you? cried one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, out with him!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Below there! Now then, together, mate,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you are, sir. Go aft."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want chucking down, I tell you, growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give's a hold of a rope and I'll drop down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you pig, snarled Jarette, for I knew it was he now who gave orders, and now came full into sight, with the lights showing: his evil-looking face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's rope you want, is it? Hah, for two sous I'd have one round your neck and run you up to the yard-arm. Treacherous lying dog."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand clear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was you talking 'bout the rope for yourself, Frenchy?--because they keep that round the yard-arm for thieves and pirates, not for honest men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pig--cochon!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence, man, don't exasperate him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Below there, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm behaving better to you than you all deserve. Some men would have pitched you all overboard to drown. Now then, listen you, Captain Berriman; you can row west and get into the line the packets take, or you can row east and make the coast somewhere, if you don't get caught in a storm and go to the bottom. But that's none of my doing, I can't help that. Now then, push off before I alter my mind and have a bag of ballast pitched through the bottom of the boat. Off with you. Fasten up that gangway, my lads."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, stop, cried Mr Frewen, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not all here,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not all there, doctor? Oh, I forgot, said Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a minute."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, don't, Captain Jarette. I'll work with you, and stick to you, and help you always. Don't do that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--you cowardly, sneaking traitor! Who'd trust you an inch out of his sight? Over with him, lads. No, no, not there. Over with him here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help! Mercy, pray! help! help!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't kill me, Jarette, and I'll tell you where the money-chests are stowed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You? Why, I know. Over with him!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "See him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, not yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has he done wrong? said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want us to chuck you in again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, have you took him aboard? said a sneering voice overhead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better let him drown. He isn't worth the biscuit and water he'll want."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, only wait!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, snarled Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you cur, I will with one of the shot-guns if you ever come near my ship again. And you, Berriman, and you, Brymer, take my warning; I've given you your chance, so take it. If you hang about near here I'll have the signal-gun loaded and sink you, so be out of sight by daylight. Now push off before you get something thrown over to go through the bottom of the boat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop, he shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Jarette, we are not all here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? Why, who is left behind?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sick passenger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And his sister, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I know, board."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, they must come with us. I warn you that Mr Denning's health is such that he must have medical attendance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I see, cried Jarette, with a sneering laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are afraid of missing your job. There, cure the captain. One patient is enough in an open boat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If anything happens to him, sir, you will have to answer for his life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are stupid, sneered Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wish to trap me. It would kill the patient to keep him with you, exposed in an open boat. No, Monsieur le docteur, I am too wise--too much of the fox, le renard--to be trapped like that. Push off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, sir, cried Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they do not wish to come, monsieur."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not argue with you, sir, or contradict. You hold the power. I only say, for mercy's sake let that poor suffering invalid and his sister come. We will then push off and leave you to your prize."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You heard me, Jarette? said Mr Frewen, after this painful pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will let your people help Mr Denning and his sister down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Jarette, doctor. There, you see what a merciful man I am. You do not know that I have been taking aim at you right between the eyes for the last five minutes, and could at any moment have sent a bullet through your head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, said the doctor, calmly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why did you not flinch and ask for mercy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I am accustomed to look death in the face, sir, when I am doing my duty, I am doing it now. Mr Denning's life is in danger. Come, sir, you will let him and his sister join us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In an open boat? No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Jarette, doctor, cried the man, angrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now all of you row and take this mad fellow away, before I am tempted to shoot him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; stop, cried Mr Frewen, fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Row beneath that window,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep off! roared Jarette fiercely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you hear? Keep off, or I fire."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you there, Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, run with your sister to the stern-windows and jump out. For heaven's sake don't hesitate. We can pick you up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible! We are both fastened in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you pass through that window?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. Save yourselves; you cannot help us now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over with it, my lads. Well out."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear? cried Mr Denning, from the cabin-light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Save yourself; the wretch will sink the boat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot go and leave you and your sister in this man's power."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is madness to stay. You have done all that is possible. Captain Berriman, order your men to row you out of danger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not in command,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Brymer, then, cried Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, they are dragging up something else to throw over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should not be a man, sir, if I ordered the men in cold blood to leave you and your sister,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are risking other lives. Mr Frewen, cried the young man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish it; my sister wishes it. You must--you shall go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I told the men to row away, sir, I do not believe they would go, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Answer for yourselves, my lads; would you go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "growled Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you can do no good, said Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lena, my child, they have been very brave, and done everything they could; tell them to go now; it is to save their lives."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't--don't, Miss Denning, I shouted, for I could bear it no longer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There isn't anybody here but Nic Walters who would be such a cur."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't true, Miss Denning. I've been a treacherous coward and a beast, but I'd sooner die now than leave you to come to harm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A pity you didn't, my lad, before you betrayed us as you did,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes. Words are no use now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! No use now--no use now, cried Walters wildly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is too late, too late,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want to doctor him, sir?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I warned you, cried Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now row for your lives."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, in heaven's name, go, cried Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, cried Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not give up. Brymer--my lads, you will fol--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, said Mr Brymer, as there was another flash and a report from Jarette's pistol."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course we will follow, but not now. It would be madness. Wait, man! We will not go far. Use your oars, my lads."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, I forbid it, cried Mr Frewen wildly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not in command here, sir, said Mr Brymer sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take your place. Now, my lads, oars, and give way."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, and God bless you!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do. In oars!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can you be such a coward?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No coward, sir, replied the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am ready to risk my life in trying, as is my duty, to save those two passengers from harm, but it must be done with guile. It is madness for unarmed men to try and climb up that ship just to be thrown back into the sea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you will not row right away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And leave the ship in the hands of that scoundrel? Is it likely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, Brymer, whispered Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not know what I was saying. I was half mad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear fellow, I know, was the mate's reply in the same tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to give up, nor yet despair. There's always a chance for us. That scoundrel may come to his end from a quarrel with one of his men; a ship may heave in sight; or we may board and surprise them, and if we do, may I be forgiven, but I'll crush the life out of that wretch as I would destroy a tiger. Now just leave me to do my duty, and do yours."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can I do? replied Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do not want me to row away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; but I do wish you to attend to our wounded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! I had forgotten that, said Mr Frewen, hastily bestirring himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, some one cried out when one of those shots was fired, and again I heard an exclamation just now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was Walters who was hit first,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is he? Somewhere forward?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has any one matches? It is impossible to see,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is hit in the chest, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know? cried Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is this your hand, my lad? What are you doing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holding my neckerchief against his side to stop the bleeding,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hah!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your hand here. Now your finger here, my lad, he whispered to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be squeamish. Think that you are trying to save another's life."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't faint, I said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't even make me feel sick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, my boy. Now hold that end while I pass the bandage round his chest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he insensible, sir? I whispered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and no wonder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it a very bad wound?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; bad enough. The bullet has passed through or else round one of the ribs. It is nearly out on the other side; I could feel it, but it must stay till daylight. That's it.--I've plugged the wound. He cannot bleed now. Thank you, Dale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What for, sir?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who else was hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neb Dumlow's got a hole in him somewheres, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish you'd keep that tongue o' yourn quiet, Barney, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who said he'd got a hole in him, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you did, cried Barney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, only just then. It was sharp for a moment, but it's better now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me pass you, my man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There you are, sir. This way. Neb's on the next thwart."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't come to me, sir, protested Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm all light, I tied a bit o' line round the place. You can give me a pill or a shedlicks powder or something o' that kind to-morrow if you like."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold your tongue, Neb, and let the doctor tie you up, growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the use of being so jolly independent? Don't you take no notice o' what he says, sir. Dessay he's got a reeg'lar hole in him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tut tut tut! muttered Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is this,--fishing-line?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, sir, said Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's right enough, there arn't no knobs on it, and it stopped the bleeding fine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Difficult work here, Dale, Mr Frewen whispered to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One need have well-educated fingers--what surgeons call the _tactus eruditus_--to work like this in the dark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Terrible,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt you, my man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it tingles a bit, sir; but here, stop, hold hard a minute. None o' them games."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What games? I don't understand you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No takin' advantage of a poor helpless fellow as trusts yer, doctor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Explain yourself, man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Explain myself, sir? How?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me what you mean."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, I want you to tell me what you mean, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To dress your wound."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, but you're a-doing of something with that 'ere other hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my man, no."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arn't got a knife in't then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not. Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dumlow thinks you were going to cut his leg off, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course I did, growled the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been telled as there's nothing a doctor likes better than to have a chance o' chopping off a man's legs or wings, and I don't mean to go hoppin' about on one leg and a timber toe, and so I tells yer flat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going to cut your leg off, Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honour, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honour, my man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honour bright, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On my word as a gentleman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thankye, sir, but if it's all the same to you, I'd rather as you said honour bright."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, honour bright. There, I am not going to do any more to you now; I must dress the wound by daylight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't bleed any more, sir, will it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'll 'bout do then, sir, thank ye kindly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are welcome, my man, said the doctor, and then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to tell me about Walters, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Feel his pulse first."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can tell you nothing yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He--he is not dead?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I say, he is not dead, is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I beg your pardon, Dale, he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking of something else--of those on board that unfortunate ship. It seems so cowardly to leave them to their fate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could we help it, Mr Frewen? What could we do? But tell me about Walters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said, drawing a long breath, as if he were making an effort to keep his mind fixed upon the present--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he is dead?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not dead, Dale, said Mr Frewen in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be quiet. Don't talk about it. We have quite enough to depress us without that. I can say nothing for certain in this black darkness, and he may recover."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the wound so very bad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dangerous enough, as far as I can tell; but he has everything against him, my lad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if he dies?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well? said Mr Frewen bitterly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he were a man, I should say it were the best thing that could happen. He has as a young officer hopelessly dishonoured himself. He can only be looked upon as a criminal."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't think it was his nature, I said to myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a piece of mad folly. He was won over by that brute of a Frenchman, who, now that he has obtained all he wants, throws over the tool he used, and ends by shooting him. Poor fellow! how could he be such a fool?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen, I whispered as I rose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no difference which I can detect,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you will--you will--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will what, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will not treat him as if--as if he were a criminal?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can I help it? He is one. We have him to thank for our position here, for those two people being left on the ship, at the mercy of those scoundrels."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I faltered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A doctor revengeful, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mean that, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, you will do your best to save his life?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For him to be punished by the law?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was not thinking of that, I said hastily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, that you will do all you can to cure him, Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, of course, my lad--of course. Am I not a doctor? I am neither prosecutor nor judge. You have curious ideas about my profession."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could not help it, Mr Frewen, I pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only that I am so anxious for him to recover."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And do you another ill turn, Dale--betray us once more!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, it isn't that. I cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps so, if he were well enough; but who would ever dream of trusting him again?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said Mr Frewen at last,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you settled what to do, Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the mate, starting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't quite make out how we are situated till daylight, but unless Jarette has taken them out, we have the boat's spars and sails. You know how fast she is, and I propose, if we can do so, to--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, go on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I propose hoisting sail in the morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And making for the Cape?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir; weather permitting, and if we have a sufficiency of provisions and water, I shall keep pretty close to the ship--our ship. I shall keep just out of range of a bullet, and that is all; merely hang about or follow her when she catches the wind, until some other vessel heaves in sight. Captain Jarette is a clever, cunning man, but he has, I think, given us our chance, and we shall hang on to him till a chance comes for seizing the ship again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought our case was hopeless to-night,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so did I, for a time, sir, continued the mate;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not too much to expect that if at any time we make an attack now, some of the men will side with us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't matter if they don't, sir, growled Bob Hampton, in the deepest of deep bass voices."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're strong enough, if you'll only give us a chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All depends on chance, my lads, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's get the daylight, and see what we have on board."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if he does use it, I thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he does, I said half-aloud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What yer talking about, Mr Dale? said Dumlow, who was nearest to me of those forward;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asleep!--who could go to sleep at a time like this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, it's hard lines, sir, said Barney Blane, joining."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a pity, too, just as we'd found a way of getting along over the cargo! Next thing would have been as we should have took the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we'll do that yet somehow, Barney,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "One charnsh, growled Dumlow, whose voice sounded as if he were very sore indeed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I on'y want half a charnsh, my lad; that'll be enough for me. I don't brag, but on'y give me half a charnsh, I don't care if he's all pistols. I says on'y give me half a charnsh, and the side of the ship close by--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll you do?--chuck him overboard, mate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, that I will, just as if he were a mad cat, and that's about what he is. Just think of it, our getting that dose as the doctor meant for him. I can't get over it, and that's a fact."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Miss Denning,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very bad,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must not move him now,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll do, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's nothing much the matter. I'm not going to make a fuss over that. It's just a pill as old Frenchy give me. If it gets worse I'll ask you for a fresh touch up."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you see any one on board, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only one man. But he is evidently watching us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where? I can't see any one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the main-top."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He never thought of it; he could not have thought of it, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course in a gale of wind we shall be nowhere, but if the weather is kindly, we can hang about the ship, or sail round her if we like, and so weary him out, that sooner or later our chance must come for surprising him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Without any arms,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must use brains instead, sir, replied Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette mastered us by means of cunning, we must fight him with his own weapons. Dale, I shall have to depend on you to carry out a plan I have ready."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, I said eagerly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you shall see, my lad. Now then, gentlemen, and my men, we must have strict discipline, please; just as if we were on board ship. The first thing is to rig up a bit of an awning here astern, to shelter the captain and--faugh! it makes my gorge rise to see that young scoundrel here, but I suppose we must behave like Christians,--eh, Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have just proved that you intended to, sir, for you were thinking of sheltering the lad as well as Captain Berriman, when you talked of the awning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, yes, I confess I was, but I thought of our lad here too. I suppose you will have to lie up, Dumlow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, sir--me lie up! he growled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are wounded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wounded? Tchah! I don't call that a wound. Why, it arn't bled much more than a cut finger. Me under a hawning! I should look pretty, shouldn't I, mates?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't want to make an invalid of you, my lad, if you can go on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then don't you talk 'bout puttin' of me under a hawning, sir; why I'd as soon have you shove me in a glass case."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jarette has the captain's spy-glass at work, and he is watching us, expecting to see us move off, rowing, I suppose, but I'm afraid he will be disappointed. He did not think he was arranging to have a tender to watch him till he loses the ship. But now all is ready, as they say on board a man-of-war, we will pipe to breakfast."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep farther out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Dale, hail Mr Denning. I want to speak to him as we pass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Denning, ahoy! I shouted through my hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mis-ter Den-ning!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep off there, do you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Den-ning, ahoy!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail again, Dale, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind his pistol, my lad. It would take a better shot than he is to hit us as we sail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning, ahoy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you so,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we are passing, said Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep off, you dogs, snarled Jarette;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yah! boo! coward!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going to stay close by, Miss Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boat will be kept close at hand to help you and your brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--yes--thank you, she cried shrilly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless you all! I knew you would not--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now off with you. Come near this ship again and I'll sink you--I'll run you down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi, Frenchy, roared Barney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence forward! cried Mr Brymer, and we were now leaving the ship fast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frewen, what does this mean? Where is Mr Den--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want a long calm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will have it,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And thinking nothing of to-morrow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, and that is our opportunity, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let them drink; they have plenty of opportunity, with the cases of wine and the quantity of spirits on board. We could soon deal with them after one of their drinking bouts; but the mischief is that Jarette is a cool, calculating man, and sober to a degree. He lets the men drink to keep them in a good humour, and to make them more manageable. He touches very little himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you propose doing? said Mr Frewen, suddenly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must act at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I feel that, sir, replied Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is only one plan. We must wait till toward morning, and then quietly row close to the ship, climb on board, and make a brave attack, and hope to succeed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you've got nothing to fight with,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Except the oars,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you couldn't climb up the ship's side with an oar in your hand, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, wouldn't it be best for one of us to get on board in the dark, and try to get some guns or pistols?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you go and try, Dale? said Mr Brymer, eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was what I meant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right, he said sadly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't mean that, I said hastily;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was only thinking about how I could get on board. I don't mind trying, because if he heard me and tried to catch me, I could jump over the side, and you'd be there waiting to pick me up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it is a great deal to ask of you, my lad, and I would say, do not expose yourself to much risk. We should be, as you say, ready to pick you up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see why he shouldn't go, drawled Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One boy stole the arms and ammunition away, so it only seems right that another boy should go and steal--no, I don't mean steal--get them back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you go, Mr Preddle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you like. I'll do anything; but I'm afraid I couldn't climb on board, I'm so fat and heavy, and, oh dear! I'm afraid that all my poor fish are dead."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will have to go, Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale will go for all our sakes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When shall he go? said the mate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would not throw him off his guard, cried Mr Frewen, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The man is too cunning. He would know that it was only a ruse, and be on the watch. Dale must go to-night--at once. Who knows what twenty-four hours may produce?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I quite agree with you, replied the mate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready, I said, making an effort to feel brave as we sat there in the darkness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I could do better if I thought till to-morrow night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How would you manage?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not very strong, but if you made the boat drift under the ship's bows, I could catch hold of and swarm up the bob-stay easily enough. Nobody would see me, and if I got hold quickly, the boat could go on round to the stern, and if anybody was on the watch he would think you were trying to get to the Dennings' window."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some one would be on the watch, said the mate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he would think as Dale says, exclaimed Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I must go to-night, I said, with a bit of a shiver."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be so cruel to Miss Denning to keep her in suspense, and thinking we were not trying to help her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you shall go, Dale, said Mr Brymer, firmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep a good heart, my lad, for the darkness will protect you from Jarette's pistol, and you can recollect this, we shall be close at hand lying across the stern ready to row along either side of the ship if we hear a splash. That splash would of course be you leaping overboard, and you must remember to swim astern to meet the boat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what is he to do when he gets on board, sir? said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make for the Dennings' cabin at once?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I said sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just where I shouldn't go. Some one would be sure to be watching it. I should try and find out which was the cabin Jarette uses, for the arms would be there, and then I should tie some guns--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And cartridges,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I shouldn't forget them. I'd tie 'em together and lower them down out of the window. He's sure to have the captain's cabin, and the window will be open, ready."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo! cried Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear! I wish I was a boy again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the best of the fun will be, I continued excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you think you can do this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I think so, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd better come with you, my lad,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; that would spoil all. A boy could do it, but I don't believe a man could."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is right, Frewen, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then understand this, Dale, you will have to act according to circumstances. Your object is to get weapons, which you will hang out so that we can get hold of them; perhaps you will be able to lower them into the boat and then slide down the rope you use. But mind this, you are not to try and communicate with the Dennings."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be fatal to our success, said the mate, firmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Dale, you understand, guns or revolvers, whichever you can get."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then how soon will you be ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ready now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, whispered Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk to him, gentlemen. Let him make his attempt on his own basis. He will act according to circumstances, and will know what is best to do. There, Dale. Now off! Go right forward into the bows, and send Hampton aft. He shall put an oar over the stern and scull you right in under the bowsprit. Then we shall go on round to the stern and wait. If you do not hear or see us, act all the same. It is intensely dark, and we shall be there. Off!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go aft and take an oar with you, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't speak, and don't make a sound."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got it to do, I said to myself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only like going in for a game of hide-and-seek. There'll be no one on deck but Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hang his pistol! I exclaimed mentally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I replied to the imaginary arguer,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't see it, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope Bob won't run us bump up against the hull, and give the alarm."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he may hear it coming, I argued. And then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not likely, for I can't hear a sound myself."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moon on the ocean, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lass that loves a sailor."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette, I said softly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurrah! He won't hear me climb the stay, and I can get on deck safely."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How well Bob is sculling us!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I run all these risks for such a brute as you, he snarled;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haul these brutes down below!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, he said savagely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, skipper,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where can they be?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, I said to myself;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; got them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No cartridges, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come closer. No--keep back."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hang the rats!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He feels that he is not safe, I said to myself at last, and to my great relief he got down, muttering to himself, and I could tell by the sound that he was at the table, for I heard a clink of glass, the gurgling of liquor out of a bottle, and then quite plainly the noise he made in drinking before he set down the glass and uttered a loud"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curse them, what are they doing now? exclaimed Jarette, loudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, if I had only one man I could trust!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dogs, he roared;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mus' have little drop more, skipper,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he roared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there's heaps o' good stuff spoiling, skipper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll spoil you, you dog, snarled Jarette, and I saw him snatch a lantern from one of the men and lean down, holding the light over the open hold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hi! below there, he roared;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more, do you hear? Come up and leave that spirit, or I'll fetch you with a bullet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better come up, mate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hold your tongue, snarled Jarette to the speaker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, will you come, or am I to fire?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, will you leave that spirit-keg alone and come up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a fresh keg broached. Who did it? he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said no more was to be taken. I say--who broached that keg?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, it was all on us, skipper. You see we couldn't do nothing in this calm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you all broke my orders, cried Jarette, hastily now,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire away,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand back, roared Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have five more shots ready, and you see I can hit. Serve the scoundrel right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But look, look!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire, fire!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was his own fault, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, carry him below. I shall not take the blame."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you shot at and hit him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I will at you, you dog, roared Jarette,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, at last! I was afraid you were being hunted. What were they doing? What was the meaning of those cries, and the torches they were rushing about the deck with?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come? Of course I will, Dale, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I cried excitedly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; quick, my lad, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is our only opportunity."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help coming!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got a rope?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All fast?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sent me to help you, my lad. Hooroar! the ship's our own again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're not loaded,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, my lad; appearances go a long way, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The scoundrels will not know. Now then, pick up something for a weapon, Dale, if it's only the cabin poker."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to fight? I said in a low tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were going to help that poor wretch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can attend him as well when he is our prisoner, Dale, as if we were Jarette's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, I said excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But hadn't you better have Dumlow too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't climb up, my lad, said Bob Hampton, in a husky whisper;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, came from the men, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then come on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hoped we should have darkness on our side, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look, look! I cried wildly;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the casks of spirits in the hold, cried Mr Brymer, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've done for it at last. But come on quickly: we can pass that without getting much harm; and as soon as we have secured the scoundrels, we must try the pump and hose."
}
]
|
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