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12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Child's play! he murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All this coming and going in crowded streets, all this fighting for bread, and scheming over pennies--child's play. Less than that--the blind swarming of ants! Tomorrow, where will all this be, for us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the engines run at half-speed, he directed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead slow, now, Captain Alden!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out, Rrisa, he commanded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let go--and throw the hook into the boat!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will sink a hundred or two yards from shore, in deep water, answered the Master, calmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sea-cock is wide open."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fifteen thousand dollar launch--!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is none the less, a clue. No man of this party, reaching the shore tonight, is leaving any more trace than we are. Come, now, all this is trivial. Forward!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almost to the dot, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seventeen minutes to midnight. At midnight, sharp, we take possession. Come!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Absolute silence, now, he breathed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The outer guards are now within an eighth of a mile."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The exact spot, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take cover, and follow your memorized orders!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're knocking out the holding-pins, thought the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a few minutes it'll be too late, _if_ we don't strike now!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two minutes more! Keep your eyes on your watches, now. Get your lethal guns ready! In 120 seconds, you will hear the first capsule burst. Ten seconds after that, Alden, fire yours. Ten later, yours, Bohannan. Ten later, yours, Rrisa. Listen hard! Hold steady!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thirty seconds more, he whispered, and fell silent. Presently, after what seemed half an hour:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifteen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In just five seconds the first capsule will burst there! He pointed with assurance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In two--in one--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The gas has dissipated enough now, said he,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord! exclaimed Bohannan, half awed by the weirdness of the apparition."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Staring at us, that way--and all! Is he asleep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try him in any way your ingenuity may suggest, answered the Master, while Alden blinked strangely through his eyeholes, and Rrisa in Arabic affirmed that there is no God but Allah."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try to force some sense-impression to his brain. It is sleep, but it is more than that. The best experiment for any doubting Thomas to employ is just to waken this guard--if possible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to make a fool of myself. There's no going against any of your statements. I'm beginning to find that out, definitely. Let's be on our way!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nice place to tackle, if anybody were left to defend it!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! exclaimed the Master, with his first word of approval. Even his aplomb was a little shaken by the complete success of the attack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all working like a clock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about disarming these men, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. They fall under the orders of another group."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The way is clear, then--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Absolutely! These men will sleep almost precisely thirty minutes. The way is clear ahead of us. Forward into the Palisade!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here come some of the machine-guns, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be vastly surprised if one man or one single bit of equipment fails to appear on schedule time. Nothing like system, Bohannan--that, and knowing how to choose your men!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, they were certainly just on the dot of getting away, said the Master, nodding as he glanced at his watch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This couldn't be better. Gas, oil, stores, everything ready. What more proof do you require, my dear Bohannan, of the value of exact coordination?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My beauty--ah, my beauty!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the wireless they're putting out of commission, thought he, glancing at his watch again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No mere untuning of wave-lengths. Good, old-fashioned hammer-blows! This station won't work again for a while!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everything is ready, said the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is quite obvious. Let us get aboard now, with no further delay, and be off!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stow your equipment, he directed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. Everything is ready, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well. Now, all to work! And then, each to his place, in engine-room, cabins, or however and where assigned. Come, come!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This goes on well, he commented to the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So far, we are within three minutes, eighteen seconds, of schedule."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last sleeper is out, sir,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hm! grunted the Master contemptuously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fools! Well--there'll be no alcohol aboard this craft!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we stow the gear in our cabins?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet, answered the Master, glancing at the chronometer that hung beside the air-rules."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time enough to get settled, later. Every second counts, now. We're due to start in seven minutes, you know. Rrisa will attend to all this. We three have got to be getting forward to the pilot-house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's have some air in here, anyhow, said he, turning toward one of the windows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This place is damned hot!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll need all the heat, soon, the Master commented."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a few thousand feet, the engine-exhaust through those radiators won't be any too much. Forward!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring me that champagne, in the saloon. All of it!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is really very complete,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only as expected, sir,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, said the major,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drop them all out that open window, there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, sir? Good Pommery? Veuve?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No argument, Bohannan! Out they go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the idea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know very well, Major, my ruling on alcohol. It doesn't mix with any motive power on this trip. Moreover, it's customary to christen every launching with champagne. We've done it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that's not so bad an idea, at that, Bohannan admitted, scratching his fiery head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What name have you given this bus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come again, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eagle of the Sky, in Arabic. I suppose we'll have to cut that down to _Nissr_, for everyday use. But at any rate, our craft is christened. Well, now--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only two minutes and six seconds more!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let in numbers two and four, commanded the Master, suddenly, into the engine-room telephone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In five seconds after we start, hook up one and three; and five later, the other two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, aye, sir, came back the voice of Auchincloss, chief engineer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord above! breathed Bohannan, chewing at his nails."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're off!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, man! he exclaimed, half angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got no heart in you, eh? No interest? Come along out of that, now, and see what's what!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full speed ahead, now! Give her all she's got!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the Lord's sake! he cried, amazed, with drooping jaw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men--after us! Look there--_look_!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're on to us! he vociferated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody's got wise--they're--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got you?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full speed ahead!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Made it all right, by God! exclaimed Bohannan, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No damage, either. If the floats had smashed when they hit the gate, there'd have been a devil of an explosion--vacuum collapsing, you know. Close call, but we made it! Now, if--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do, Major! he repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of your extravagance, sir! No time now for rodomontade!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wounded, Captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a scratch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Report to Dr. Lombardo. And have Simonds, in charge of the stores, replace this broken pane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pit number one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep a sharp eye out for _Niss'rosh_! Remember, two red lights showing there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. I'll report as soon as I pick them up."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sight it, yet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. Just picked it up. Hold hard, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cracowicz! ejaculated the Master, into the phone again, as his deft fingers made another connection. A foreign voice answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready in the lower gallery now, with the winch and tackles!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoist away!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a little fireworks, as a send-off, Major, said he, notching the speed ahead, ever ahead, till a whipping gale began to beat in at the broken pane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They got word of it pretty quick, eh? I suppose they'll send up a few planes after us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "exulted the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, they'll be after us, all right--a devil of a long way after!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've got as much chance of overhauling us as the proverbial celluloid cat has of catching the asbestos rat, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A clean getaway, barring the little damage we've taken--this window, and Alden, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better unpack your kit, and settle down, the Master dryly interrupted him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take a look around and see that everything's shipshape. Be sure the port and starboard watches are chosen. Everything's been arranged, already, but in dealing with human beings there's bound to be a little confusion. They aren't automata--unfortunately. And, Major!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send Brodeur to relieve me, in about ten minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He rates us two for a nickel, that's plain enough--plain as paint! Well, all right. I'll stand for it; but there may be others that--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God, if I can do it!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it can be done! he repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--there's no 'if' to it, at all. It _can_ be! It _shall_! The biggest thing ever attempted in this world! A dream that's never been dreamed, before! And if it can't, well, a dream like that is far more than worth dying for. A dream that can come true--by God, that shall come true!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold now, Allah! he cried suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I AM THE MASTER'S!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's wonderful, said he, as Brodeur settled himself at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With her almost unlimited power, her impeccable controls and her automatic stabilizers, I hardly see what could happen to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire, of course, _m'sieur_, the ace replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly on an all-metal liner. Now, here you see--and here--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does _M'almé_ desire?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I desire to know thy opinion of all this, Rrisa. Tell me, did thy great prophet, M'hámed, ever ride in such state through the air? Was Al Burak, his magic horse, on which he traveled to the paradise of the houris, more swift or mighty than this steed of mine?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Rrisa, what of all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your steed is very swift and very mighty. Your flying ship is very great, the Arab admitted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Allah and his Prophet are greater! _Allahu akbar!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course. But tell thou me, Rrisa, if I were to appear at Mecca in my _Nissr Arrib ela Sema_--my Eagle of the Sky--would not thy people give me great honors?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My head is at your feet, _M'almé_, and I am yours to do with as you will, even to the death, but I implore you, by the beard of the Prophet, do not do this thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why not, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I, Master, are _akhawat_.[1] Therefore I can speak true words. You must not go to Mecca. No man of the _Nasara_ may go there--and live."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou meanest that if we go to Mecca and they capture us, they will kill us all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yea, Master. And I too shall die, for being with you, though I count that as less than nothing."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master, said he, timorously,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it indeed true that in Mecca stands a building called the Ka'aba, also called _Bayt Ullah_, or Allah's House?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yea, Master, that is true,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And is it indeed covered with a wondrous silken and gold cloth, every year renewed, known as the _kiswah_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those words are true."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All Moslems greatly revere the Ka'aba?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is the center of our mighty faith, Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And thou hast seen it with thine own eyes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With my own eyes, Master, for I am a _Hadji_.[1] Attentively the Arab was now watching the Master. Slowly he continued:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prayer, with face to Mecca, alms-giving, the keeping of the fast of Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to the Ka'aba, these are our law. Yea, Master, I have myself seen the Ka'aba, and more than once!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it true there is a sacred Black Stone in the walls of the Ka'aba, precious to all followers of the Prophet, from Africa to China and to the farthest isles? Revered by all the two hundred and thirty million of your faith?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true, _M'almé_. I myself have touched and kissed the Black Stone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mecca, the Ka'aba, and the Black Stone are forbidden to all heretics?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They tell me, persisted the Master,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a lie! flared Rrisa, with indignation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is in the northeast corner, at the very corner, Master. It is between four feet and five from the ground. That, and no other, is the true place, Master, the place of _Hajar el Aswad!_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, yes, the books lie, agreed the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And they say, too, that certain of the Feringi have indeed touched and even kissed the Black Stone, and still lived."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that the truth?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must speak truth to you, Master, confessed the Arab, with bitter shame."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two of the Feringi--_Nasara_ men like yourself--have indeed touched and kissed it. Two that we know of. _Shaytan el Kabir_ (the Great Satan) may have permitted others to do that, but we know of only two who have done it--and lived."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou meanest one named Burckhardt, and Sir Richard Burton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those were their names, _M'almé!_ Those two, disguised as _Hujjaj_, defiled the Black Stone, which was given by Allah to the first Arabs; and they both escaped. But many others who have tried--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have died at the hands of thy people?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rrisa, said he, impressively, his voice slow, grave, sonorous,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true, Master. _Nahnu malihin._"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the salt is still in thy stomach?[1]"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, Master. You are still _dakhil_ (protected) to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art mine to do with as I will?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the Master's!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Treason to me, Rrisa, is treason to thy holy laws. Surely, such treason would plunge thy soul far into the depths of Eblis. When thy time cometh to walk across the burning pit, on the bridge as fine and sharp as the edge of a simitar, if it be laden with treachery to one who hath saved thy life and whose salt thou hast eaten, surely it shall not pass over, but shall fall. Far into the deeps of Jehannum it shall fall, where the Prophet says: 'Stones and men shall be the fuel of the everlasting flame!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the Master's, repeated Rrisa, with trembling mouth. He raised his hand to forehead, lips, and heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My head is at the Master's feet!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forget that not, thou! cried the Master, dominantly."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, faith now, what d'you think? The most improbable thing you can imagine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What may that be, Major?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not what it may be, it's what it _is_ that's astonishing me. We've got a stowaway aboard us!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stowaway? Impossible!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True, nevertheless. Manderson has just now routed him out of the starboard storage-room, near the reserve petrol-tank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hm! Who is he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't know yet. He's still dopy. Just coming out of the effects of the lethalizing gas."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, yes, yes, I see. One of the former crew, I suppose. This is quite inexcusable. That a man should have been overlooked and left aboard--it won't do, Major. Kloof was responsible for that room. Kloof will have to suffer. Any other news?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Travers, the New Zealander, is wounded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Badly?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid he's hard hit, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll have a look at him and at this stowaway. Where are they, now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the lazaret, I suppose you call it. Though what a hospital is, aboard an air-liner, blest if I know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sick-bay, we'll call it. Problems rising already. A stowaway--rather odd, I must say. Still, as a problem, it's not hard to solve. Nothing simpler than dropping a man overboard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--surely, you wouldn't do that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That remains to be seen. Come, let's have a look at him!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you're here, sir, said he to the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's trouble enough, already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stowaway?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. Perhaps not voluntarily so. You know how he was found."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such oversight is inexcusable! The Master leaned down and shook the man by the shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, now! he demanded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's no use questioning him, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's no use, sir, repeated the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He hasn't recovered consciousness enough, yet, to be questioned. When he does, I'll report."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do so! returned the Master, curtly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hardly think we need use much ceremony in disposing of him. He turned to the other cot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, how about this man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm--all right, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Serious, Lombardo whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shot through the right lung. Bullet still there. Severe internal hemorrhage. I may be able to operate, with Daimamoto assisting, but only in case the patient rallies. We really need a nurse, on this expedition. Medically speaking, we're short-handed. However, I'll do my best, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you will,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your wound not yet dressed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, not yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why not, pray?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's simply refused all attention, whatever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a reason, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No reason can overrule my orders! the Master exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I commanded you to report to Dr. Lombardo for treatment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless, sir, I refuse--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Insubordination will not be condoned, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My reason is valid. When you have heard it, you will understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "State your reason, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I decline--here."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is inexcusable, said the Master, crisply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I give you one last chance. Either permit treatment, or consider yourself under arrest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before you proceed to such lengths, the captain replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ask one favor of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What favor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two minutes alone with you, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come with me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, faith, can you beat that? exclaimed the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's an Ethiopian in the woodpile, sure enough. Something strange, here, I'm thinking! Something damned strange here!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there anything here that _isn't_?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, what have you to say for yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I repeat that I cannot--and will not--submit myself to any medical attention from any member of this expedition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is dangerous ground you're treading! the Master exclaimed. His voice had deepened, grown ominous."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You understood perfectly well the conditions of the undertaking--unquestioning obedience to my orders, with life-and-death powers in my hands, to punish insubordination."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand all that, sir, answered the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand it now. Nevertheless, I repeat my refusal to obey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah! There must be some deep cause here! ejaculated the Master, his eyes smoldering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I intend to work my will, but I am a man of reason. You are entitled to a hearing state your objection, sir. Speak up!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is my reason, sir, said he very quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good God!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you see me as I am! said she, her voice low and just a little trembling, but wholly brave."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, perhaps, you understand!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--but you--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you understand why I couldn't--wouldn't--let Dr. Lombardo dress my wound."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the power of Allah! What does all this mean? The Master's voice had grown hoarse, unsteady."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A woman--_here_--!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, a woman! The woman your expedition needs and must have, if death and sickness happen, as happen they will The woman you would never have allowed to come--the woman who determined to come at all hazards, even death itself. The woman who--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Lord Almighty! Your papers! Your decorations!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite genuine,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, said he, trying to rally,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you for your consideration, she smiled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is on a par with my conception of your character."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray spare me your comments, he replied, coldly. He returned to his desk, but did not sit down there. Against it he leaned, crossed his arms, and with somewhat lowered head studied her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your explanation, madam?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was what I was hoping for and counting on. I wanted to serve this expedition both as a flyer and as a nurse. Fate willed otherwise. A chance bullet intervened. You know the truth. But I feel confident, already, that my secret is safe with you."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me stay! Let me serve you all! I ask no more of life than that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your name, madam!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot tell you. I am Captain Alfred Alden to you, still. Just that. Nothing more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You continue insubordinate? Do you know, madam, that for this I could order you bound hand and foot, have you laid on the trap in the lower gallery, and command the trap to be sprung?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know all that, perfectly well. And I know the open Atlantic lies a mile or two below us, in the empty night. Nevertheless, you shall not learn my name. All I shall tell you is this--that I am really an aviator. 'Aviatrix' I despise. I served as 'Captain Alden' for eight months on the Italian front and twenty-one months on the Western. I am an ace. And--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind about all that! the Master interrupted, raising his hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a woman! You are here under false colors. You gained admission to this Legion by means of false statements--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, no, pardon me! Did I ever claim to be a man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The impression you gave was false, and was calculated to be so. This is mere quibbling. A lie can be acted more effectively than spoken. All things considered, your life--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is forfeited, of course. I understand that perfectly well. And that means two things, as direct corollaries. First, that you lose a trained flyer and a woman with Red Cross training; a woman you may sorely need before this expedition is done. Second, you deny a human being who is just as eager as you are for life and the spice of adventure, just as hungry for excitement as you or any man here--you deny me all this, everything, just because a stupid accident of birth made me a woman!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man's world! That's what this world is called; that's what it is! And you--of all men--are living down to that idea! You--_the Master!_"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is because you _are_ a master of men, and of yourself, that I have taken this chance! It is because I have heard of your absolute sense of justice and fair play, your appreciation of unswerving loyalty and of the heart that dares! Now you understand. I have only one more thing to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you respect my secret and let me go with you on this great enterprise, no man aboard the Eagle of the Sky will serve you any more loyally than I. No man will venture more, endure more, suffer more--if suffering has to be. I give you my word of honor on that, as a fighter and--a woman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your word of honor as--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A woman! Do you understand?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your life is spared, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a concession to your sex, madam. Had you been a man, I would inevitably have put you to death. As it is, you shall live. And you shall remain with us--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God for that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Till we reach land. There you must leave _Nissr_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall not leave it alive, the woman declared, her eyes showing dilated pupils of resentment, of anger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't come this far to be thrown aside like a bit of worthless gear!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and your machine will be cast off, over the first land we touch, the Master repeated doggedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever information you may give, cannot injure us, and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop! Not another word like that, to me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You accuse me of treason, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, what injustice, what--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I accuse you of nothing, save of having deceived us all, and of being very much _déplacée_ here. The deception shall continue, as far as the others are concerned. You came to us, as a man. You shall go as one. Your secret shall be absolutely respected, by me. But, madam, understand one thing clearly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is that?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Other men are sometimes influenced by such. I tell you now, madam, I shall not be. Your entreaties will have no weight. When the time comes for you to leave _Nissr_, I trust you will go quietly, with no distressing scene."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think me the type that entreats, that sheds tears, that exercises wiles?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We won't discuss your personality, madam! This interview is drawing to an end. Until we reach land, nothing can be done. Nothing, but to look out for your injury. Common humanity demands that your wound be dressed. Is it a serious hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not compared with the hurt you are inflicting, in banishing me from the Flying Legion!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, madam, refrain from extravagant speeches! What is your wound?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A clean shot through the left arm, I think, a little below the shoulder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I realize, of course, that to have Dr. Lombardo dress it would reveal your sex. Could you in any way manage the dressing, yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If given antiseptics and bandages, yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shall be furnished, also a stateroom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will excite comment."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can also hint that I have helped you with the dressing, and have ordered you to keep your stateroom for a while. When it comes time to leave _Nissr_, I will dispatch you as a messenger. Thus your secret will remain intact. Besides, no one will dare inquire into anything. No one ventures to discuss or question any decision of mine."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must compliment you on one thing, madam, said he, with just the wraith of a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your acting has been perfection itself. And the fortitude with which you have borne the discomfort of that mask for more than a week, to achieve your ends, cannot be too highly praised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, she replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would have stood _that_ a year, to be one of your Legion! But now--tell me! Isn't there any possibility of your reversing your decision?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None, madam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't there anything I can say or do to--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember, you told me just a minute ago you were not the type of woman who entreats!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, madam, I will call my orderly and have you escorted to a stateroom; have you provided with everything needful for your injury. I trust it is not causing you any severe pain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray don't waste any time or thought on any injury of mine, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, madam! Resume your disguise!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I can't obey you, sir, she proffered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can see for yourself, it can't be done."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Obviously you cannot expect one so unskilled as I, in things feminine, to help you in the capacity of lady's maid Therefore only one thing remains to do. Instead of calling my orderly, and having him show you your stateroom, I must in some way arrange to get you there, myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's kind of you, I'm sure,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There I will supply you with medical supplies. In some manner or other you can manage to do up your hair and resume your disguise. You will remain in your stateroom--under arrest--until such time as you are cast loose, tomorrow, in your plane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tomorrow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should say, sometime before night of the day that has already begun. Food and drink will be brought you, of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's very good of you, sir."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you realize, she continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A mere detail!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mere detail--to murder a woman?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you--shall not remain with us. Now, kindly stay here. Lock the cabin door after I have gone, and admit no one until I return. I will signal you with two triple knocks, thus."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless, my code as an officer prohibits any punishment other than this merely nominal arrest. I must offer you temporary hospitality. Moreover, if you need any assistance in dressing your wound, I will give it. Common humanity demands that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't need anything, thank you, she answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't ask for anything, but to stay with the Legion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a point I must positively decline to argue, madam, he informed her, shaking his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, since there is nothing more to say, I wish you a very good night!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, hello?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just picked up two important radios, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well? What are they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "International Air Board headquarters, in Washington, has been notified of our getaway. They have sent out calls for all air-stations in both America and Europe to put up scout-squadrons to watch for us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What else?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two squadrons have been started westward across the Atlantic, already, to capture or destroy us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed? Where from?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One squadron has started from Queenstown. The other from the Azores--from St. Michaels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything else?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, now and then I can get a few words they're sending from plane to plane--or from plane to headquarters. They mean business. It's capture or kill. They're rating us as pirates."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well. Anything really important?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing else, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep me informed, if any real news comes in. But don't disturb me with trifles!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd better be rigging that vibratory apparatus before long, he reflected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But still, there's no immediate hurry. Time enough for all that. Lots of time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A woman, he whispered, finally, the words lingering on his lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A woman, eh? Strange--very strange!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, hello?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have to report that a third squadron has been ordered into the air, from Monrovia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well! Anything else?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enough of this nonsense! growled he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's work to be done--_work_!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we're still carrying on. Things are still going pretty much O.K., sir, proffered the major, squinting into the East--the cold, red East, infinitely vast, empty, ripe with possibilities."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good start! Close to a thousand miles we've made; engines running to a hair; men all fitting into the jobs like clockwork. Everything all right to a dot, eh?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't feel sleepy. Do you? Seems like I'd never want to sleep again. Faith, this _is_ living! You've got us all enthused. And your idea of putting every man-jack in uniform was bully! Nothing like uniforms--even a jumble of different kinds, like ours--to cement men together and give them the _esprit de corps._ If we go through as we've begun--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, how did Alden come out? Much hurt, was he? I know, of course, he didn't go back to the sick-bay. So he couldn't have been badly wounded, or he would be--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Arabs have a saying, my dear fellow, dryly answered the Master,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to be sighting some of the attackers, before long, judged he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm rather curious to see them--to see flies attacking an eagle. I haven't had a real chance of testing out the neutralizers. Their operation, in actual practice, ought to be interesting."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to her! She has deceived you, and you are master here. But, above all, you are a man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is an interloper. She has no rights. Why give her another thought?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, man, the small voice insinuated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A curse on all women! retorted the other voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Away with her!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men shall have the preeminence above women, because Allah hath caused the one of them to excel the other!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Man, you were seeking new sensations, new experiences, to stir your pulses. This woman has given you many. She has served her purpose. Now let her go!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sighted something, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See for yourself, Major, what you make of it! Right in the sun's eye, and off to southward--all along that fantastic, crimson cloud-castle."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Looks like business, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Business, yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bad business for us, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might be, if we had only the usual means of defense. Under ordinary circumstances, our only game would be to turn tail and run for it, or cut away far to the south--or else break out a white flag and surrender. But--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must be the Azores air-fleet, judged Bohannan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The others couldn't have made so much westing, in this time. Faith, what a buzzing swarm of mosquitoes! I had no idea there were that many planes on the Azores International Air Board station!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are many things you have no idea of, Major, replied the Master, sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, however, is immaterial. Yes, here come the fringes of attack, all right enough. I estimate forty or fifty in sight, already; and there must be a few hundred back of those, between here and land, north and south. Technically, we're pirates, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pirates?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what the wireless tells us. We'll get short shrift if--my apparatus fails."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do they make us out pirates?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're pirates all right--if they catch us. And they _will_ catch us if they get within gunshot. The next few minutes will settle that question of whether they're going to, or not!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nice, comforting prospect! muttered the Celt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do they do with pirates, anyhow, these days? They can't hang us at the yard-arm, because airships don't have 'em. Of course they might stage a hanging-bee with this Legion dangling from the wings, but that would be pretty hard to manage. It'll be shooting, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Probably, if my neutralizer fails."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're cheerful about it! The neutralizer may be all right, in its way, but personally I'm rather strong for these! He laid a hand on the breech of the Lewis machine-gun mounted in the gallery, its grim muzzle pointed out through a slit in the colloid screen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The six guns we've got aboard, in strategic positions, look like good medicine to _me_! Wouldn't it be the correct thing to call the gun-crews and limber up a little? These chaps aren't going to be all day in getting here, and when they do--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I admire your spirit, Major, interrupted the other, with undertones of mockery,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My will is made, anyhow, growled Bohannan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, I'm glad it is!"
}
]
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12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Enemark? asked he, of the man at the neutralizer far down in the penetralia of the giant air-liner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Throw in the first control. Half-voltage, for three minutes. Then three-quarters, for two; and then full, with all controls. Understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir! came the crisp voice of Enemark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfectly!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden."
}
]
|
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