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12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Save your fire, men, said the Master picking up a spear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are plenty of means, here, to give these dogs the last sleep, without wasting good ammunition. Choose the weapon you can handle best, and fall to work!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember only one thing, my brothers in arms! exclaimed the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that is most vital!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what may it be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know whether old Sheik Abd el Rahman is with this party or not, but if either of you find him, kill him not! Deliver him to me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, Master!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what now, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we, after all, kill these sleeping swine-brothers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh, what? Thy heart then, hath turned to water? Thou canst not kill? They attacked us--this is justice!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if they live, they will surely wipe us out! put in the Frenchman, staring in the gloom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What meaneth this old woman's babble, son of the Prophet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not that my heart hath turned to water, nor have the fountains of mine eyes been opened to pity, answered Rrisa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But some things are worse than death, to all of Arab blood. To be despoiled of arms or of horses, without a fight, makes an Arab as the worm of the earth. Then he becometh an outcast, indeed! 'If you would rule, disarm', he quoted the old proverb, and added another:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is thy plain meaning in all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen, _M'almé_. If you would be the Sheik of Sheiks, carry away all these weapons, and let these swine awaken without them. They would drag their way back to the oases and the black tents, with a story the like of which hath never been told in the Empty Abodes. The Sahara would do homage, Master, even as if the Prophet had returned!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, the folk are Arabs there, too. They would hear of this, and bow to you, my _M'almé_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps. Perhaps not. I can take no chances, Rrisa. The land, here and to the eastward, might all arise against us. The tribes might come against us like the _rakham_, the carrion-vultures. No, we must kill and kill, so that no man remaineth here--none save old Abd el Rahman, if Allah deliver him into our hands!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is your firm command, Master?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My firm command!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To hear the Master is to obey. But first, grant me time for my _isha_, my evening prayer!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is granted. And, Rrisa, _there_ is the _kiblah_, the direction of Mecca!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Captain, said the lieutenant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men with stern work to do cannot have time to fear the future!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Master, I am ready for the work of helping Azraël, the death-angel, separate the souls and bodies of these Shiah heretics!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire to your bellies, broiling in white flame! Fuel of Jehannum, may Eblis be your bed, an unhappy couch! Spawn of Shaytan (Satan), boiling water to cool your throats! At Al Hakkat (judgment day) may the _jinnee_ fly away with you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To work, men! cried the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is great work to do!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iron, O thou ill-omened one!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thousand devils! ejaculated the Frenchman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No time, now, for killing! Lucky if we get back ourselves, alive, to the beach! My Captain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the wady, all of us! That may give protection till this blast of Hell passes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O _M'almé_, _M'almé!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold! I--_I have found him!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Found--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old hyena, surely! _M'almé, M'almé! See!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that he, Rrisa? cried the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art thou sure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As that my mother bore me! See the old jackal, the son of Hareth! (the devil). Ah, see, see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "exclaimed the Frenchman, in his own tongue."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is none other!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, _mon vieux!_ he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only the mountains that never meet, in time!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah is being good to us! exulted the Master, peering by the gale-driven fire-glare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This capture is worth more to the Legion than a hundred machine-guns. What will not the orthodox tribes give for this arch-Shiah, this despoiler of the sacred Haram at Mecca?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we could only lay hands on the fabled loot of the Haram!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This Koran, Rrisa, is now thine! he cried in a loud voice, to make the Arab hear him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And a great gift to thee, a Sunnite, is the Koran, of this desecrating son of the rejected!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By _Corsi_ (Allah's throne), now things assume a different aspect! This old dog of dogs is a prize, indeed! And--what now--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the Master heard him cry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you found, Lieutenant? shouted the Master, letting the simoom drive him toward the wady. In their excitement none of the men would yet take cover, lie down and hide their faces under their coats as every dictate of prudence would have bidden."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it, now? What--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, my Captain! Ah! the pity of it! Behold!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Leclair! Who, now?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible, my Captain, the lieutenant answered in French. His voice could now make itself heard more clearly; for here in the wady a certain shelter existed from the roaring sand-cyclone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossible, but--_Dieu_!--it is true!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is true?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Incredible, yet--_voilà_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Allah's name, Lieutenant! the Master ejaculated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No Arab, sir! No, no!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not an Arab? Well, what is he, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, these scars, my Captain! Behold--see the slave dress, the weals of the branding-iron on cheek and brow! Ah, for pity! See the starved body, the stripes of the lash, the feet mangled by the bastinado! What horrible things they have done to him--ah, God have pity on us!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What now? Who is it? shouted the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A European?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my Captain! A Frenchman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Frenchman. You don't mean to say it--is--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes! My orderly! Lebon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God! exclaimed the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Praise to the Lord of the Three Worlds!) choked Rrisa in a strange voice, fighting for his very breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See--see what I--have found!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, he choked,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou--dost not mean--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truly, I do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not Kaukab el Durri?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye--it was lying near that heretic dog!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Pearl Star, the sacred loot from the Haram?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kaukab el Durri, _M'almé_. The Great Pearl Star itself!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Pearl Star!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kaukab el Durri! See, one pearl is missing--that is the one said to have been sold in Cairo, twelve years ago, for fifty-five thousand pounds! But these are finer! And its value as a holy relic of Islam--who can calculate that? God, what this means to us!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God! What this means! the Master repeated, as the three men cringed in the wady."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Success, dominion, power!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do I _not_ mean, Lieutenant? No wonder the Apostate Sheik had to flee from Mecca and take refuge here in this impassable wilderness at the furthest rim of Islam! No wonder he has been hounded and hunted! The only miracle is that some of his own tribesmen have not betrayed him before now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master, no Arab betrays his own sheik, right or wrong! said Rrisa in a strange voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Before that, an Arab dies by his own hand!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right or wrong, _M'almé_! repeated the Arab. Then he added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I not now go to drag in the swine-brother Abd el Rahman?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou sayst, if he be left there--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Master, he will surely die. All who are not sheltered, now, will die. All who lie there on the dune, will be drifted under, will breathe sand, will perish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well, Rrisa. Go, drag in the swine-brother. But have a care to harm him not. Thou wouldst gladly slay him, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More gladly than to live myself! Still, I obey. I go, I bring him safe to you, O Master!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you realize what this thing is? demanded the Master, turning the necklace in his hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard of it, my Captain. For years vague rumors have come to me from the desert-men, from far oases and cities of the Sahara. Now here, now there, news has drifted in to Algiers--not news, but rather fantastic tales. Yes, I have often heard of the Kaukab el Durri. But till now I have always believed it a story, a myth."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next to the Black Stone, itself, it is possibly the most precious thing in Islam. And now, now with this Great Pearl Star in our hands, what is impossible?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Master, I have saved him from the _jinnee_ of the desert, Rrisa pantingly announced. His voice trembled with a passionate hate; his eyes gleamed with excitement; his nails dug into the palms of his hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now Master, gladden my eyes and expand my breast by letting me see this old jackal's blood!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Rrisa, the Master denied him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have other use for the old jackal. Other punishments await him than death at my hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What punishments, Master?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, and thou shalt see. And remember always, I am thy sheik, thy preserver, with whom thou hast shared the salt. 'He who violates the salt shall surely taste Jahannum!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death shall have me, first!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This won't do, Lieutenant. We must be getting back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, my Captain? asked he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Legionaries can care for themselves. If _Nissr_ is breaking up, in the gale, we can do nothing. And on the way we may be lost. To retrace our journey over the desert would surely be to invite death."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must return, nevertheless. This storm may last all night, and it may blow itself out in half an hour. That cannot be told. The Legion may think us lost, and try to search for us. Lives may be sacrificed. Morale demands that we go back. Moreover, we certainly need not traverse the desert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can descend the wady to the beach, and make southward along it, under the shelter of the dunes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the noise and confusion of the storm they may take us for Arabs and shoot us down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will see to that. Come, we must go! Carry Lebon, if you like. Rrisa and I will take Abd el Rahman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ejaculated Rrisa,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Slave of Compassion; the latter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slave of the Devil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As thou wishest, Rrisa. But come, take his feet. I will hold him by the shoulders. So! Now, forward!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And have a care not to breathe the sand, Master, Rrisa warned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Turn thy face away when the _jinnee_ smite!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the Master hailed, three long times. An answering shout came back, faintly, from the black. The Master bent, assured himself the old Sheik's mouth and nose were still covered by the hood of the burnous, and cried:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forward!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember, both of you, he cautioned,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Great Pearl Star?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is to be a secret, my Captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Between us three; yes. Let that be understood!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I pledge my honor to it! cried the Frenchman. Rrisa added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Master has but to command, and it is done!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfect success! Lethalizing was complete. Sand has buried the entire tribe. Leclair found his former orderly, who had been their slave. We have here their Sheik, Abd el Rahman. Nothing more to fear. Down, everybody--tunics over heads again--let the storm blow itself out!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man-power enough, thought the Master, as he laid out his campaign."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only troublesome factors, are, first, _Nissr's_ condition; second, our lack of water and supplies; and third, the possibility of interference from Arabs or European forces, by land or sea. If we can overcome all these--_if_, did I say? We can! We will!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah smite thy face, _ya kalb!_ (O dog!) he murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Robber of the Haram, from Jehannum is thy body!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we can make a try for it now, sir. Frazier looked white and wan, shaking, hollow-eyed, but a smile was on his lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two engines are intact. Two will run half-speed or a little better, and one will do a little."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One remains dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. But we can repair that on the way. Rudders and propellers will do. Helicopters O.K."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And floats?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both aft floats repaired, sir. One is cut down a third, and one a half, but they will serve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about petrol? the Master demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have only that one aft starboard tank, now, not over three-quarters full."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a chance that will do till we can run down a caravan along the Red Sea, carrying petrol to Suakin or Port Sudan. So there's a fighting hope--if we can raise ourselves out of this sand that clings like the devil himself. It's lucky, sir, we jettisoned those stores. Wind and current brought some of them back, anyhow. If they'd stayed in the storeroom they'd have all been burned to a crisp."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes. You think, then, we can make a start?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can try, sir,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, said the Master decisively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our prospects are good. The wounded are coming on. Counting Lebon, we have twenty-five men. I will have all stores reloaded at once. Be ready in one hour, sir. Understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Smoke to southward, sir. Coming up along the Coast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smoke? A steamer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't see, sir. It was the voice of Ferrara that answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The smoke is behind the long point to southward. But it is coming faster than a merchant vessel. I should say, sir, it was a torpedo-boat or a destroyer, under forced draft. And it's coming--it's coming at a devil of a clip, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major, commanded he, as _Nissr's_ burned and wounded body began to quiver through all its mutilated fabric;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major, man the machine-guns again. All stations! _Quick_!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a British destroyer, sir! She's just rounded the point, three miles south. Signals up for us to surrender!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Machine-guns against naval ordnance! gritted the Master savagely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surrender?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot and be damned to you!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very poor shooting, my Captain, smiled Leclair, leaning far out the port window of the pilot-house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But then, we can't blame the gunners for being a bit excited, trying to bag a bit of international game like this Legion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And beside, put in Alden coolly,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah make it hard for you! _Laan'abuk!_"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is probably just a temporary respite, said Bohannan, as he sat with the Master in the latter's cabin. The windows had been slid wide open, and the two men, leaning back in easy wicker chairs, were enjoying the desert panorama each in his own way--Bohannan with a cigar, the Master with a few leaves of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's still, perhaps, only a temporary respite, the major was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, as long as we stay in the Sahara, we're safe enough from molestation. It's trying to get out--that, and shortage of petrol--that constitute our problem now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our troubles are merely postponed, the Celt continued, gloomily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The damage was done when that infernal destroyer sighted us. Just how the alarm was given, and what brought the sea-wasp racking her engines up the coast, we can't tell. But the cat's out of the bag, now, and we've got to look out for an attack at any moment we try to leave this region."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's obvious my wireless messages about being wrecked at sea won't have much weight now, the Master replied, analytically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They would have, though, if that slaving-dhow hadn't put in to investigate us. I have an idea that those _jallahs_ (slavers) must in some way have let the news out at Bathurst, down in Gambia. That's the nearest British territory."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish they'd come within machine-gun fire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, we've got lots of room to maneuver, the chief continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're heading due east now, with a glance at the wall-compass and large-scale chart of Northern Africa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're now between Mauretania and Southern Algeria, bound for Fezzan, the Libyan Desert, and Nubia on the Red Sea. That is a clear reach of more than three thousand miles of solid desert."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we're all right, as long as we stay in the desert, Bohannan affirmed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they'll be watching for us, all right, when we try to leave. It's all British territory to the east of us, from Alexandria down to Cape Town. If we could only make our crossing of the Nile and the Red Sea, at night--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible, Major. That's where we've got to restock petrol. If it comes to a show-down, crippled as we are, we'll fight! Of course, I realize that, fast as we fly, the wireless flies faster. We may have to rely on our neutralizers again--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're working?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Imperfectly, yes. They'll still help us, in 'civilized warfare.' And as for what will happen at Mecca, if the Faithful are indiscreet enough to offer any resistance--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got something new, have you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it may prove something of a novelty, Major. Time will tell, if Allah wills. Yes, I think we may have a little surprise for our friends, the Meccans."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Promising oasis, _mon capitaine_, came the voice of Leclair from the upper starboard gallery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Through my glass I can make out extensive date-palm groves, pomegranate orchards, and gardens. There must be plenty of water there. We should take water, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major, commanded he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. But you know only two of the detachable tanks are left."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two will suffice. Have them both lowered, together with the electric-drive pump. Don't annoy me with petty details. You are in charge of this job now. Attend to it!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LABBAYK!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These be men of great magic, said the _naib_, to Rrisa, after the tanks had been hoisted to _Nissr_, and a dozen sacks of fresh dates had been purchased for the trinkets plus two _ryals_ (about two dollars)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me of these 'People of the Books!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will tell thee of but one thing, Abu Shawarib, (father of whiskers) answered Rrisa with pride."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Abd el Rahman is our prisoner in the flying ship above. We are taking him back to Mecca. All his people of the Beni Harb lie dead far toward the great waters, on the edge of the desert of the sea. The Great Pearl Star we also have. That too returneth to the Haram. _Allah isélmak!_"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, Leclair? the Master inquired, as _Nissr_ drew away once more to eastward, leaving the village in the palms behind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hold power already with the sons of Islam! What will it be when--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you attempt to take from them their all, instead of returning to them what they so eagerly desire to have! the Frenchman put in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us hope all for the best, my Captain, but let us keep our powder very dry!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou carrion! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soon shalt thou be in the hands of the Faithful. Soon shall Allah make thy countenance cold, O offspring of a one-eyed man!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once we pass that sea, he commented,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Provided we get some petrol,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, an open gate, that should have been closed, defeated Napoleon. A few hundred gallons of gasoline--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gasoline is already in sight, Major, smiled the chief, his glasses on the coastline."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That caravan--see there?--comes very apropos."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It goes ahead of us, by Allah! he murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Into the Empty Abodes, where the sons of Feringistan would penetrate, a shadow goes first! And that is not good. He whispered a prayer, then added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the others, I care not. But my Master--his life and mine are bound with the cords of Kismet. And in the shadows I see darkness for all!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, he commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are now approaching the Holy City. I am bringing back the Apostate Sheik and the Great Pearl Star. I am the preserver of the Star. Thine own people could not keep it. I have recovered it. Is that not true?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True, _M'almé_, praise to Allah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It may be that I shall be called on to preserve some other and still more sacred thing. If so, remember that my salt is still in thy stomach."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master, I will not forget."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go thou, then! And remember that whatever happens, my judgment tells me it is best. Raise not a hand of rebellion against me, Rrisa, to whom thou owest life itself. To thy cabin--go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Master--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, but that's an odd sight, laughed the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where else in all this world could you get a contrast like that--the desert, a semibarbarous people, and a railroad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nowhere else, put in Leclair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no other road like that, anywhere in existence. The Damascus-Mecca line is unique; a Moslem line built by Moslems, for Moslems only Modern mechanism blent with ancient superstition and savage ferocity that implacably hold to the very roots of ancient things!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the Orient, Lieutenant, added the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in the Orient, who can say that any one thing is stranger than anything else? To your stations, men!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Valley of Mina! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mount Arafat--and there, beyond, lies Mecca! _Labbayk! Labbayk!_"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Strong Book,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks, thought the Master, with a smile,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah's announcers,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slow her! commanded the Master into the engine-room phone, and began compensating with the helicopters, as _Nissr_ lagged over the crowded city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shut off--let her drift! Stand by to reverse!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reverse! ordered the Master. Nissr hovered exactly above the Haram enclosure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lower to five hundred feet, then hold her!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So we have made you the center of the nations that you should bear witness to men."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, the major answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tools all ready? Machine-guns installed? Yes? Very well. Open the trap, now, and swing the nacelle by the electric crane and winch. Right! Steady!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready, sir, said the major, crisply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, give the signal and down we go; and we'll either bring back what we're going after, or we'll all come back and report ourselves dead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a minute, Major,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What the devil, sir--?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These Arabic gentlemen, _et ál_, he remarked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The principle is parallel to that of an artillery shell that only bursts when it strikes, and might be extremely useful in warfare, if properly developed--as I haven't had time, yet, to develop it. No matter about that, though. My proposal has been rejected. Peace having been declined, we have no alternative but to use other, means. There is positively no way of coming to an agreement with our Moslem friends, below."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My first bit of Arabia, said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Worth keeping."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, Major, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon me, my Captain, put in Leclair,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible. The way we're crippled, now, I haven't the equipment. But I shall nevertheless be able to show you something, Lieutenant. Major will you kindly drop one of the kappa-rays?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith! grunted the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What the devil? These two little metal boxes didn't weigh a pound apiece when--ugh!--when we packed 'em in our bags. How about it, chief?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They weren't magnetized then, Major, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I have someone help you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, by God! I'll either lift this thing or die, right here!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have now fifteen minutes, men, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean to tell me, my Captain, _those pilgrims are still conscious?_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfectly. They will see, hear, and know all you do. I wish them to. The effect will be salutary, later. But they cannot move or interfere. All you have to look out for is the incoming swarm of fanatics already on the move. So there is no time to be lost. Into the nacelle, and down with you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if they try to rush us you can drop the other bomb, can't you?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The idea does you credit, Major, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fact that the other bomb would of course completely paralyze you and your men, here, is naturally quite immaterial. Let us have no more discussion, please. Only fourteen minutes, thirty seconds now remain before the _Hujjaj_ will begin to recover their muscular control. You have your work cut out for you, the next quarter-hour!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lower away!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mecca's bride,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out, men, and at it!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, but this is some proposition!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The stone's there, men, at the south-east corner! Get busy!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There she is, men!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Emilio--drive your pick here!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Work quick, Major! came the Master's voice, seemingly at Bohannan's elbow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a fearful drove of the rascals coming. You'd better get that stone out and away in double-quick time!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have about five minutes more, the Master spoke again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If necessary, we will open on them with machine-guns, from the ship, but I'd like to avoid bloodshed if possible. Do the best you can!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angels of death, Azraël and his host, smite these outcasts of Feringistan!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, men! cried the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Away!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, quick, on the other end! he cried to Emilio."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You, Lombardo, steady her! So! Now--to the nacelle!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up! Up!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down, you blazing idiot!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The golden spout--see? he cried, pointing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be a damn fool, Doctor!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the love o' God, _haul up!_"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The damned Moslem swine! he panted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, but they--they've killed him! He flung a passionate hand at the basket, in which, prone across the golden spout, the still body of Lombardo was lying."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've killed as brave a man--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We all saw what he did, Major, the chief said quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. Lombardo owed us all a debt, and he has paid it. This is Kismet! Control yourself, Major. The price of such brave adventure--is often death."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major, have the stone and the golden spout carried to my cabin. And, if you please, no remarks!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great treasure, pondered the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An almost incalculable treasure, in itself; but less so, intrinsically, than as an object of Moslem veneration. In either case, however, enormously valuable."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very hygienic, the Master thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If there was ever a finer way devised for spreading the plague and other Oriental diseases, I can't very well imagine what it could be!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mineralogically speaking, this is a meteor or a block of volcanic basalt, judged the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems sprinkled with small crystals, with rhombs of tile-red feldspath on a dark background like velvet or charcoal, except for one reddish protuberance of an unknown substance. A good blow with a hammer would surely break it along the original lines of fracture--and this is well worth knowing and remembering"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, so far so good, he concluded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Air Control Board hasn't got us, yet. Neither have the Mohammedans. True, we've lost a number of men, but that was to have been expected. That's inevitable, and we still have enough. I hardly see that we have so very much to complain of, so far."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the Master greeted him, in Allah's name inquiring for his good health."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have something important to ask thee. Come in. Come in, and close the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Master hath but to talk, and it is answered, if my knowledge can suffice."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mecca lieth behind us, Rrisa, the Master began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast seen nothing of it, or of what happened there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, _M'almé._ I was bidden remain in my cabin, and the Master's word is always my law. It is true that I heard sounds of a great fighting, but I obeyed the Master. I saw nothing. The Sheik Abd el Hareth, did you deliver him into the hands of the Faithful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Rrisa. They refused to accept him. And now I have other plans for him. It is well that thou didst see nothing, for it was a mighty fighting and there was death both to them and to us. Now, my questions to thee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yea, Master?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me this thing, first. Is it indeed true speaking, as I have heard, that the Caliph el Walid the First, in Hegira 88, sent to Mecca an immense present of gold and silver, forty camel-loads of small cut gems and a hundred thousand _miskals_ in gold coin?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One Greek sculptured a hog on the Mosque of Omar, trying to make it into a _kanisah_ (unclean idol-house). My people discovered the sacrilege, and --he added with intent--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is of no importance whatever, Rrisa, answered the Master with an odd smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What thy people do to the unbeliever, if they capture him, is nothing to me. For--dost thou see?--they must first make the capture. What I would most like to know is this: where is all that treasure, now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot tell you, Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Mecca?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Master, not at Mecca."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not against the commands of thy sheik--and I am thy sheik!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The treasure, Master, is far to the south-east--in another city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! So there _is_ another city far out in Ruba el Khali, the Empty Abodes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yea, _M'almé_, that is so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then the ancient rumor is true? And it is from near that city that thou didst come, eh? By Allah's power, I command thee to tell me of this hidden city of the central deserts!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This thing I cannot do, my sheik."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This thing thou must do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Master! It is the secret of all secrets! Spare me this!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No Rrisa, thou must obey. Far inside El Hejaz (the barrier), that city is lying for my eyes to behold. I must know of it. Thy oath to me cannot be broken. Speak, thou!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speak Rrisa! There is no escape for thee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My sheik, I obey,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This city--spare me uttering its name, Master!--lies many hours' journey, even by this Eagle of the Sky, beyond the Iron Mountains that no man of the Feringi hath ever seen. It lies beyond the Great Sand Barrier, in a valley of the Inner Mountains; yea, at the very heart of Ruba el Khali."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear thee, Rrisa. Speak further. And let thy speaking be truth!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shall be truth, by the Prophet's beard! What doth the Master ask of me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it a large city, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very large."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And beautiful?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the Jebel Radhwa!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast been in that secret city, Rrisa?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once, Master. The wonderful sight still remaineth in mine eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, seeing the Iron Mountains again, thou couldst guide us thither?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah forbid! That is among the black deeds, Master! 'The grave is darkness and good deeds are its lamps; but for the betrayer, there shall be no light!' _Wallah, Effendi!_ Do not make me your guide!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not said I intended to do so, Rrisa. I merely asked thee if thou _couldst_! The Master's voice was silken, fine, penetrant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Rrisa, tell me if thou couldst!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yea, Master. _Ya gharati!_ (O my calamity!) It is true I could. The words issued from his unwilling throat as if torn out by main force."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I earnestly beg of you, my sheik, do not make me do this thing!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rrisa, if I command, thou must obey me! 'There is only one thing can ever loose the bonds I have knotted about thee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that is certainty (death), Master?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is certainty! But this, to the oath-breaker and the abuser of the salt, means a place among the _mujrim_ (sinful). It means Jehannum, and an unhappy couch shall it be!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master, I obey!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is well,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, thou, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thy knowledge is sufficient. Thou dost understand the interpretation of maps, and canst read latitude and longitude. Mark here the place of the Hidden City!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the Bara Jannati Shahr, Master? Ah no, _no_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So then, that is its name?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, _M'almé_. Thou dost know the Arabic. Thou dost understand this means only, in thy tongue, the Very Heavenly City."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True. Well, let it pass. Very Heavenly City it shall be, till the real name becomes known. Come now, mark the place of the Hidden City and mark it truly, or the greatest of sins will lie upon thy soul!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me a pencil, Master, and I obey!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my life is in your hands, Master, and I have shared your salt. Allah knows I was forced to speak. _Shal'lah!_ (It is _Allah's_ will!) Allah will weigh my heart and will forgive, for he is the Compassionate, the Merciful! I beg you, Master, now let me go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soon, Rrisa, the chief answered, turning away from the map."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But first there is something of highest import I must show thee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what may that be, my sheik? the Arab queried, his widening eyes fixed on the blanket that covered the loot from Mecca. Instinctively he sensed that some horrible sight was about to be presented to him. His face paled even more. He licked dry lips with a tongue equally dry, and leaned against the table to steady himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you now to show me, O _M'almé?_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen! the chief commanded sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Meccans are a people corrupt and accursed. 'Their hearts are black as their skins are white.' They live by fleecing the _Hujjaj_, by making sale and barter of relics, by turning the holy places into marts of trade. All this is well known throughout Islam. Ah, the degenerate breed of the sons of the Prophet!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true, Master. And what then?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would it not be better that such things should be carried far from danger, to the hidden, inner city? I ask thee this, Rrisa; would it not be better far?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what is the meaning of my master's strange words? ventured Rrisa, a sort of dazed horror dawning in his eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The other and more sacred things of Islam--are they there under that cloth, O Master?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast said it, Rrisa! Now, behold them!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Master, that is not--."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truly, yea! The Golden Waterspout, Rrisa, and the Black Stone itself! I am carrying them to the Very Heavenly City, far in the Iron Mountains! They shall be given to the Great Olema, there, who is more fit to guard and keep them than the Sheriff of Mecca or than his sons Feisal and the two Alis. No harm shall befall them, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And your hand--the hands of other Feringi who are not my masters--have touched these things? stammered Rrisa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my calamity! O my grief!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou canst go now, Rrisa, the Master said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go, and think well of what I have told thee, and--"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come, Rrisa, said he, not unkindly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be thou not so distressed. Is it not better that these very precious things be kept in greater safety at the Jannati Shahr? Come, Rrisa! Arise!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Lord! the man has fainted dead away!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what dost thou wish?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One favor, only!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what is that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave me, a little while. I must be alone, all alone with Allah--to think!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It shall be as thou wishest, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think, yes. And understand that what I do is best for all of Sunnite Islam! As for the Shiah dogs, what hast thou to trouble about them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may be glory and power, wealth past reckoning, incredible splendor, thought the Master,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come what may, he murmured,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder who she really is? What can her name be--who can she be, and--and--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What thoughts are these? What nonsense? Such things are not for me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he whispered hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot! This is my sheik--'and thrice cursed is the hand that slays the sheik.' I cannot kill him!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah, oh, guide thy servant now! the orderly prayed with trembling lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allah, show thou me the way!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou, Allah, he whispered,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can she be, I wonder? he mused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A woman like that, possessed of that extraordinary beauty; a woman with education, languages, medical skill; a woman with courage, loyalty, and devotion beyond compare, and with all the ardor for service and adventure that any man could have--who can she be? And--damn it, now! Who am I, to be thinking of such nonsense, after all?"
}
]
|
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