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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did it go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So-so. I organized myself a sort of miniature police force within a police force and I have liaison officers in every organization down to Sector Regional so that I can be informed promptly in case anything new turns up anywhere. What's been happening on Home Time Line? I picked up a news-summary at Paratime Police Headquarters; it seems that a lot more stuff has leaked out. Kholghoor Sector, Wizard Traders and all. How'd it happen?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Consolidated Outtime Foodstuffs let a gang of reporters in, today. I think they're afraid somebody will accuse them of complicity, and they want to get their side of it before the public. All our crowd are off that Time line except a couple of detectives at the plantation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know. He smiled; Dalla was thinking of the Paratime Police as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How about this dinner at Dras' place?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that was easy. She shifted position again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just called Dras up and told him that our vacation was off, and he invited us before I could begin hinting. What are you going to wear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Short-jacket greens; I can carry a needler with that uniform, even wear it at the table. I don't think it's smart for me to run around unarmed, even on Home Time Line. Especially on Home Time Line, he amended." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When's this affair going to start, and how long will Rendarra take to get that goo off you?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're tired, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me call Nindrandigro and have him bring you chilled wine; lie down and rest until dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; I want brandy. He went to a cellaret and got out a decanter and goblet, pouring himself a drink." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How soon will dinner be ready?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eighteen twenty-three ten, eighteen twenty-three eleven, eighteen twenty-three twelve--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In half an hour. It's still in the robo-chef," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Zinganna; take these, and take Nindrandigro and Calilla out for the evening. Go where you can all have a good time, and don't come back till after midnight. There will be some business transacted here, and I want them out of this. Get them out of here as soon as you can; I'll see to the dinner myself. Spend all of that you want to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, _thank_ you, Trod! She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him enthusiastically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go tell them at once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And have a good time, Zinganna; have the best time you possibly can, he told her, embracing and kissing her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, get out of here; I have to keep my mind on business." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paratime Police, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Office of Chief Tortha." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am Executive Councilman Salgath Trod, he told her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am, and for the past fifteen years have been, criminally involved with the organization responsible for the slave trade which recently came to light on Third Level Esaron. I give myself up unconditionally; I am willing to make full confession under narco-hypnosis, and will accept whatever disposition of my case is lawfully judged fit. You'll have to send an escort for me; I might start from my apartment alone, but I'd be killed before I got to your headquarters--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just a moment, Councilman Salgath; I'll put you through to Chief Tortha." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see why they're making such a fuss about it, one of the Banking Cartel people was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Causing a lot of public excitement all out of proportion to the importance of the affair. After all, those people were slaves on their own time line, and if anything, they're much better off on the Esaron Sector than they would be as captives of the Croutha. As far as that goes, what's the difference between that and the way we drag these Fourth Level Primitive Sector-Complex people off to Fifth Level Service Sector to work for us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, there's a big difference, Farn, Javrath Brend said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We recruit those Fourth Level Primitives out of probability worlds of Stone Age savagery, and transpose them to our own Fifth Level time lines, practically outtime extensions of the Home Time Line. There's absolutely no question of the Paratime Secret being compromised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beside, we need a certain amount of human labor, for tasks requiring original thought and decision that are beyond the ability of robots, and most of it is work our Citizens simply wouldn't perform," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, from a moral standpoint, wouldn't these Esaron Sector people who buy the slaves justify slavery in the same terms?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's still a big difference, Dalla told her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ServSec Proles aren't beaten or tortured or chained; we don't break up families or separate friends. When we recruit Fourth Level Primitives, we take whole tribes, and they come willingly. And--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A visiphone call for your lordship, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chief Tortha Karf calling. If your lordship will come this way--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Vall; something interesting has just come up. He spoke in a voice of forced calmness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't go into it now, but you'll want to hear about it. I'm sending a car for you. Better bring Dalla along; she'll want in on it, too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right; we'll be on the top south-west landing stage in a few minutes." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dras, I'm awfully sorry, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the second time in succession that Dalla and I have had to bolt away from here, but policemen are like doctors--always on call, and consequently unreliable guests. While you're feasting, think commiseratingly of Dalla and me; we'll probably be having a sandwich and a cup of coffee somewhere." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm terribly sorry. Thalvan Dras replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We had all been looking forward--Well! Brogoth, have a car called for Vall and Dalla." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Police car coming for us; it's probably on the landing stage now, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, good-by, everybody. Coming, Dalla?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to fill you in on this, as soon as possible, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your hunch about Salgath Trod was good; just a few minutes before I called you, he called me. He says this slave trade is the work of something he calls the Organization; says he's been taking orders from them for years. His attack on the Management and motion for a censure-vote were dictated from Organization top echelon. Now he's convinced that they're going to force him to make false accusations against the Paratime Police and then kill him before he's compelled to repeat his charges under narco-hypnosis. So he's offered to surrender and trade information for protection." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How much does he know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not as much as he claims to, I suppose; he wouldn't want to reduce his own trade-in value. But he's been involved in this thing for the last fifteen years, and with his political prominence, he'd know quite a lot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can protect him from his own gang; can we protect him from psycho-rehabilitation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, and he knows it. He's willing to accept that. He seems to think that death at the hands of his own associates is the only other alternative. Probably right, too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why would they sacrifice a valuable accomplice like Salgath Trod, in order to make a transparently false accusation against us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ha, that's our new rookie cop's idea! Tortha Karf chuckled, nodding toward Dalla." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We got Zortan Harn to introduce an urgent-business motion to appoint a committee to investigate BuPsychHyg, this morning. The motion passed, and this is the reaction to it. The Organization's scared. Just as Dalla predicted, they don't want us finding out how people with potentially criminal characteristics missed being spotted by psychotesting. Salgath Trod is being sacrificed to block or delay that." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something that just came in from Industrial Twenty-four, Chief, Lieutenant Sothran said in answer to Tortha Karf's question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be for Assistant Verkan's desk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's a Prole named Yandragno, sir, one of the policemen said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Industrial Sector Constabulary grabbed him peddling Martian hellweed cigarettes to the girls in a textile mill at Kangabar Equivalent. Captain Jamzar thinks he may have gotten them from somebody in the Organization." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "wrists; he jerked a neutron-disruption blaster from under his jacket. Vall, his needler already drawn, rayed the fellow dead before he could aim it, then saw that the two pseudo-policemen had drawn their needlers and were aiming in the direction of Salgath Trod. There were no flashes or reports; only the spot of light that had winked on and off under Vall's rear sight had told him that his weapon had been activated. He saw it appear again as the sights centered on one of the" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barth! Vall called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you a hypodermic and a sleep-drug ampoule? Well, give this boy a shot; he's only impact-stunned. Be careful of him; he's important. He glanced around the landing-stage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fact is, he's all we have to show for this business." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Same gang that killed that Carera slaver on Esaron Sector? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, exactly the same general procedure. Let's have a look at the other one." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Second time we've had a witness killed off under our noses, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're going to have to smarten up in a hurry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here's one of us who doesn't have to, much, Vall said, nodding toward Dalla." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She knocked a needler out of one man's hand, and we took him alive. The Force owes her a new shoulder-bag: she spoiled that one using it for a club." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Best shoulder-bag we can find you, Dalla, Tortha Karf promised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're promoted, herewith, to Special Chief's Assistant's Special Assistant--You know, this Organization murder-section is good; they could kill anybody. It won't be long before they assign a squad to us. Blast it, I don't want to have to go around bodyguarded like a Fourth Level dictator, but--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Screen call for you, sir, he told Tortha Karf." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One of the news services wants a comment on a story they've just picked up that we've illegally arrested Councilman Salgath and are holding him incommunicado and searching his apartment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the Organization, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They don't know how their boys made out; they're hoping we'll tell them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No comment, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call the girl on my switchboard and tell her to answer any other news-service calls. We have nothing to say at this time, but there will be a public statement at ... at 2330, he decided after a glance at his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That'll give us time to agree on a publicity line to adopt. Lieutenant Sothran! Take charge up here. Get all these bodies out of sight somewhere, including those of Councilman Salgath and Detective Malthor. Don't let anybody talk about this; put a blackout on the whole story. Vall, you and Dalla and ... oh, you, over there; take the prisoner down to my office. Sothran, any reports from any of the cars that were chasing that fake police car?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The prisoner's still under the drug, the Chief said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He'll be out for a couple of hours; the psych-techs want to let him come out of it naturally and sleep naturally for a while before they give him a hypno. He's not a ServSec Prole; uncircumcised, never had any syntho-enzyme shots or immunizations, and none of the longevity operations or grafts. Same thing for the two stiffs. And no identity records on any of the three." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The men at Salgath's apartment say that his housekeeper and his two servants checked out through the house conveyer for ServSec One-Six-Five, at about 1830, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a Prole entertainment center on that time line. I suppose Salgath gave them the evening off before he called you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you ordered them picked up. The news services are going wild about this. I had to make a preliminary statement, to the effect that Salgath Trod was not arrested, came to Headquarters of his own volition, and is under no restraint whatever." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Except, of course, a slight case of rigor mortis, Dalla added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you mention that, Chief?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I didn't. Tortha Karf looked as though he had quinine in his mouth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vall, how in blazes are we going to handle this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We ought to keep Salgath's death hushed up, as long as we can, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Organization doesn't know positively what happened here; that's why they're handing out tips to the news services. Let's try to make them believe he's still alive and talking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can we do it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There ought to be somebody on the Force close enough to Salgath Trod's anthropometric specifications that our cosmeticians could work him over into a passable impersonation. Our story is that Salgath is on PolTerm, undergoing narco-hypnosis. We will produce an audio-visual of him as soon as he is out of narco-hyp. That will give us time to fix up an impersonator; We'll need a lot of sound-recordings of Salgath Trod's voice, of course--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take care of the Home Time Line end of it; as soon as we get you an impersonator, you go to work with him. Now, let's see whom we can depend on to help us with this. Lovranth Rolk, of course; Home Time Line section of the Paratime Code Enforcement Division. And--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, we bring you the statement which Chief Tortha of the Paratime Police has promised for this time. This portion of the program was audio-visually recorded at Paratime Police Headquarters earlier this evening." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a recording of Councilman Salgath's call to me from his apartment to my office at 1945 this evening." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You understand that this confession renders you liable to psycho-rehabilitation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you agree to come voluntarily to Paratime Police Headquarters, and you will voluntarily undergo narco-hypnotic interrogation?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am now terminating the playback of Councilman Salgath's call to me, Tortha Karf said, re-appearing on the screen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At this point Councilman Salgath began making a statement about his criminal activities, which we have on record. Because he named a number of his criminal associates, whom we have no intention of warning, this portion of Councilman Salgath's call cannot at this time be made public. We have no intention of having any of these suspects escape, or of giving their associates an opportunity to murder them to prevent their furnishing us with additional information. Incidentally, there was an attempt, made on the landing stage of Paratime Police Headquarters, to murder Councilman Salgath, when he was brought here guarded by Paratime Police officers--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We believe that these men were Fifth Level Proles; we think that they were under hypnotic influence or obeying posthypnotic commands when they made their suicidal attack. If any of you have ever seen any of these men before, it is your duty to inform the Paratime Police." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well! Nothing like being sincere with the public, is there? Della commented." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll remember this the next time I tune in a Management public statement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In about five minutes, one of the bureau-chiefs, said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you have somebody who can give a convincing impersonation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. A field agent named Kostran Galth, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We ran the personal description cards for the whole Force through the machine; Kostran checked to within one-twentieth of one per cent; he's on Police Terminal, now, coming by rocket from Ravvanan Equivalent. We ought to have the whole thing ready for telecast by 1730 tomorrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He can't learn to imitate Salgath's voice convincingly in that time, with all the work the cosmeticians'll have to be doing on him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make up a tape of Salgath's own voice, out of that pile of recordings we got at his apartment, and what we can get out of the news file. Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have phoneticists who can split syllables and splice them together. Kostran will deliver his speech in dumb-show, and we'll dub the sound in and telecast them as one. I've messaged PolTerm to get to work on that; they can start as soon as we have the speech written." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The more it succeeds now, the worse the blow-up will be when we finally have to admit that Salgath was killed here tonight, the Chief Inter-officer Co顤dinator, Zostha Olv said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better have something to show the public to justify that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we had, Tortha Karf agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vall, how about the Kholghoor Sector operation. How far's Ranthar Jard gotten toward locating one of those Wizard Trader time lines?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not very far, Vall admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has it pinned down to the sub-sector, but the belt seems to be one we haven't any information at all for. Never been any legitimate penetration by paratimers. He has his own hagiologists, and a couple borrowed from Outtime Religious Institute; they've gotten everything the slaves can give them on that. About the only thing to do is start random observation with boomerang-balls." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Over about a hundred thousand time lines, Zostha Olv scoffed. He was an old man, even for his long-lived race; he had a thin nose and a narrow, bitter, mouth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what will he look for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Croutha with guns. Tortha Karf told him, then turned to Vall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't he narrow it more than that? What have his experts been getting out of those slaves?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That I don't know, to date. Vall looked at the clock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll find out, though; I'll transpose to Police Terminal and call him up. And Skordran Kirv. No. Vulthor Tharn; it'd hurt the old fellow's feelings if I by-passed him and went to one of his subordinates. Half an hour each way, and at most another hour talking to Ranthar and Vulthor; there won't be anything doing here for two hours. He rose." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See you when I get back." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "he was shouting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This whole story is a preposterous insult to the integrity of the entire Executive Council, your elected representatives, and it shows the criminal lengths to which this would-be dictator, Tortha Karf, and his jackal Verkan Vall will go--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So long, jackal." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, hello, Assistant Verkan. Want me to call Subchief Ranthar?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he sleeping? Then for mercy's sake don't. What's the present status of the investigation?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we were dropping boomerang balls yesterday, while we had sun to mask the return-flashes. Nothing. The Croutha have taken the city of Sohram, just below the big bend of the river. Tomorrow, when we have sunlight, we're going to start boomerang-balling the central square. We may get something." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Wizard Traders'll be moving in near there, about now, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Croutha ought to have plenty of merchandise for them. Have you gotten anything more done on narrowing down the possible area?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The experts have just about pumped these slaves empty, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The local religion is a mess. Seems to have started out as a Great Mother cult; then it picked up a lot of gods borrowed from other peoples; then it turned into a dualistic monotheism; then it picked up a lot of minor gods and devils--new devils usually gods of the older pantheon. And we got a lot of gossip about the feudal wars and faction-fights among the nobility, and so on, all garbled, because these people are peasants who only knew what went on on the estate of their own lord." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What did go on there? Vall asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ask them about recent improvements, new buildings, new fields cleared, new paddies flooded, that sort of thing. And pick out a few of the highest IQ's from both time lines, and have them locate this estate on a large-scale map, and draw plans showing the location of buildings, fields and other visible features. If you have to, teach them mapping and sketching by hypno-mech. And then drop about five hundred to a thousand boomerang balls, at regular intervals, over the whole paratemporal area. When you locate a time line that gives you a picture to correspond to their description, boomerang the main square in Sohram over the whole belt around it, to find Croutha with firearms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can do, Assistant Verkan. I think I'll send somebody to wake up Subchief Ranthar, right now. Want to talk to him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Won't be necessary. You're recording this call, of course? Then play it back to him. And get cracking with the slaves; you want enough information out of them to enable you to start boomerang balling as soon as the sun's high enough." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good afternoon. Assistant Verkan. I suppose you're calling about the slave business. I've turned the entire matter over to Field Agent Skordran; gave him a temporary rank of Deputy Subchief. That's subject to your approval and Chief Tortha's, of course--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make the appointment permanent, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll have a confirmation along from Chief Tortha directly. And let me talk to him now, if you please. Subchief Vulthor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir. Switching you over now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Deputy Skordran, and congratulations. What's come up since we had Nebu-hin-Abenoz cut out from under us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We went in on that time line, that same night, with an airboat and made a recon in the hills back of Careba. Scared the fear of Safar into a party of Caleras while we were working at low altitude, by the way. We found the conveyer-head site: hundred-foot circle with all the grass and loose dirt transposed off it and a pole pen, very unsanitary where about two-three hundred slaves would be kept at a time. No indications of use in the last ten days. We did some pretty thorough boomeranging on that spatial equivalent over a couple of thousand time lines and found thirty more of them. I believe the slavers have closed out the whole Esaron Sector operation, at least temporarily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me have the designations of the time lines on which you found conveyer heads," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a moment, Chief's Assistant; I'll photoprint them to you. Set for reception?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "On, sir, he said. He and Vall counted ten seconds together, and then Skordran Kirv said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Through to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's about all I have, sir. Want me to keep my troops ready here, or shall I send them somewhere else?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep them ready, Kirv, Vall told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may need them before long. Call you later." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think he's coming out of the drug, now, he reported." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still asleep, though. We want him to waken naturally before we start on him. They'll call me as soon as he shows signs of stirring." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Opposition's claiming, now, that we drugged and hypnotized Salgath into making that visiscreen confession, Dalla said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you think of any way you could do that without making the subject incapable of lying?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pseudo-memories, the psychist said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would take about three times as long as the time between Salgath Trod's departure from his apartment and the time of the telecast, though--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know much higher math?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, enough to handle my job. Neuron-synapse inter-relations, memory-and-association patterns, that kind of thing, all have to be expressed mathematically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See any kind of a pattern there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. I'd say that all the numbers are related in some kind of a series to some other number. Simplified down to kindergarten level, say the difference between A and B is, maybe, one-decillionth of the difference between X and A, and the difference between B and C is one-decillionth of the difference between X and B, and so on--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Nentrov; the patient's out of the drug, and he's beginning to stir about." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's it, the psychist said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have to run." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If those time lines are in regular series, they relate to the base line of operations, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe you can have that worked out. I can see how it would be; a stated interval between the Esaron Sector lines, to simplify transposition control settings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was what I was thinking. It's not quite as simple as Dr. Nentrov expressed it, but that could be the general idea. We might be able to work out the location of the base line from that. There seems to be a break in the number sequence in here; that would be the time line Skordran Kirv found those slaves on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Verkan Vall here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've just brought in Salgath Trod's servants. Picked them up as they came out of the house conveyer at the apartment building. I don't believe they know what's happened." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barth, have the girl in the black cloak brought down to Number Four Interview Room. Put the other two in separate detention cubicles; we'll talk to them later. He broke the connection and got to his feet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Dalla. I want you to help me with the girl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just try and stop me, Dalla told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any interviews you have with that little item, I want to sit in on." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're Zinganna; you're of the household of Councilman Salgath Trod, aren't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Housekeeper and hostess, the girl replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am also his mistress." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which confirms my long-standing respect for Councilman Salgath's exquisite taste." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, thank you, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I doubt if I was brought here to receive compliments. Or was I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I'm afraid not. Have you heard the newscasts of the past few hours concerning Councilman Salgath?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. I and Nindrandigro and Calilla spent the evening on ServSec One-Six-Five. Councilman Salgath told me that he had some business and wanted them out of the apartment, and wanted me to keep an eye on them. We didn't hear any news at all. She hesitated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has anything ... serious ... happened?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zinganna, I'm going to tell you something that is being kept from the public, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By doing so, I will make it necessary for us to detain you, at least for a few days. I hope you will forgive me, but I think you would forgive me less if I didn't tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Something's happened to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Zinganna. At about 2010, this evening, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Councilman Salgath was murdered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! She leaned back in the chair, closing her eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's dead? Then, again, statement instead of question:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's dead!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who did it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men who actually used the needlers are dead, Vall told her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I killed a couple of them myself. We still have to find the men who planned it. I'd hoped you'd want to help us do that, Zinganna." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid it was something like that, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the last few days, well, ever since the news about the slave trade got out, he's been worried about something. I've always thought somebody had some kind of a hold over him. Different times in the past, he's done things so far against his own political best interests that I've had to believe he was being forced into them. Well, this time they tried to force him too far. What then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So we're keeping this hushed up, for a while. The way we're letting it out, Salgath Trod is still alive, on Police Terminal, talking under narco-hypnosis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And they'll get frightened, and frightened men do foolish things, she finished. She hadn't been a politician's mistress for nothing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do to help?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell us everything you can, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe we can be able to take such actions as we would have taken if Salgath Trod had lived to talk to us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, of course. She got another cigarette from the case Vall had laid on the table." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think, though, that you'd better give me a narco-hypnosis. You want to be able to depend on what I'm going to tell you, and I want to be able to remember things exactly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you handle this, yourself? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's an audio-visual recorder on now; here's everything you need. He opened the drawers in the table to show her the narco-hypnotic equipment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the phone has a whisper mouthpiece; you can call out without worrying about your message getting into Zinganna's subconscious. Well, I'll see you when you're through; you bring Zinganna to Police Terminal; I'll probably be there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're having trouble with them, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hostile. Yelling about their rights, and demanding to see a representative of Proletarian Protective League." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If they don't co鞿erate, drag them out and inject them and question them anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've been taking a pretty high hand with them as it is, he protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's safer to kill a Citizen than bloody a Prole's nose; they have all sorts of laws to protect them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are all sorts of laws to protect the Paratime Secret, Vall replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I think there are one or two laws against murdering members of the Executive Council. In case P.P.L. makes any trouble, they aren't here; they have faithfully joined their beloved master in his refuge on PolTerm. But one or both of them work for the Organization." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're sure of that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Organization is too thorough not to have had a spy in Salgath's household. It wasn't Zinganna, because she's volunteered to talk to us under narco-hyp. So who does that leave?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, that's different; that makes them suspects. The lieutenant seemed relieved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll pump that pair out right away." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, tell me the worst," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our boy's memory-obliterated, Nentrov Dard said, draining his glass and filling it again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And he's plastered with pseudo-memories a foot thick. It'll be five or six ten-days before we can get all that stuff peeled off and get him unblocked. I put him to sleep and had him transposed to Police Terminal. I'm going there, myself, tomorrow morning, after I've had some sleep, and get to work on him. If you're hoping to get anything useful out of him in time to head off this Council crisis that's building up, just forget it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that leaves us right back with our old friends, the Wizard Traders, Tortha Karf added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if they've decided to suspend activities on the Kholghoor Sector, too--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, good night, Chief; Vall. If you decide to wake me up before 1000, send somebody you want to get rid of in a hurry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope they don't, Vall said to Tortha Karf." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really, though, I doubt if they do. This is their chance to pick up a lot of slaves cheaply; the Croutha are too busy to bother haggling. I'm going through to PolTerm, now; when Dalla and Zinganna get through, tell them to join me there." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your idea paid off, Chief's Assistant, the Kholghoor SecReg Subchief told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The slaves gave us a lot of physical description data on the estate, and told us about new fields that had been cleared, and a dam this Lord Ghromdour was building to flood some new rice-paddies. We located a belt of about five parayears where these improvements had been made: we started boomeranging the whole belt, time line by time line. So far, we have ten or fifteen pictures of the main square at Sohram showing Croutha with firearms, and pictures of Wizard Trader camps and conveyer heads on the same time lines. Here, let me show you; this is from an airboat over the forest outside the equivalent of Sohram." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Balls ready to go, a voice called, and then repeated a string of time-line designations." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Estimated return, 1820, give or take four minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Varth, Ranthar Jard said, evidently out of the boat's radio." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your telecast is being beamed on Dhergabar Equivalent; Chief's Assistant Verkan is watching. When do you estimate your next return?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Any moment, now, sir; we're holding this drop till they rematerialize." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right; drop away," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll probably get a positive out of the batch you just saw coming in, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We get one out of about every two drops." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Message a list of the time-line designations you've gotten so far to Zulthran Torv, at Computer Office here, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's working on the Esaron Sector dope; we think a pattern can be established. I'll be seeing you in about five hours; I'm rocketing out of here as soon as I get a few more things cleared up here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have something, Vall, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, roughly, what Dr. Nentrov suggested--each of the intervals between the designations is a very minute but very exact fraction of the difference between lesser designation and the base-line designation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have the base-line designation?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes. That's what I was telling you. We worked that out from the designations you gave me. He recited it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All the designations you gave me are--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's not a Fifth Level designation, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's First Level!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's correct. First Level Abzar Sector." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now why in blazes didn't anybody think of that before?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, message that to Subchief Ranthar Jard, Kholghoor Sector at Nharkan Equivalent, and to Subchief Vulthor, Esaron Sector, Novilan Equivalent, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And be sure to mark what you send Vulthor, 'Immediate attention Deputy Subchief Skordran.'" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want more troops from ServSec and IndSec, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go over the TO's and see what can be spared from where; don't strip any time line, but get a force of the order of about three divisions. And locate all the big antigrav-equipped ship transposition docks on Commercial and Passenger Sectors, and a list of freighters and passenger ships that can be commandeered in a hurry. We think we've spotted the time line the Organization's using as a base. As soon as we raid a couple of places near Nharkan and Novilan Equivalents, we're going to move in for a planet-wide cleanup." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I get it, Chief's Assistant. I do everything I can to get ready for a big move, without letting anything leak out. After you strike the first blow, there won't be any security problem, and the lid will be off. In the meantime, I make up a general plan, and alert all our own people. Right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right. And for your information, the base isn't Fifth Level; it's First Level Abzar." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, think of that! I'd even forgotten there was an Abzar Sector. Shall I tell the reporters that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fangs of Fasif, no! Vall fairly howled. Then, curiously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What reporters? How'd they get onto PolTerm?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About fifty or sixty news-service people Chief Tortha sent down here, this morning, with orders to prevent them from filing any stories from here but to let them cover the raids, when they come off. We were instructed to furnish them weapons and audio-visual equipment and vocowriters and anything else they needed, and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was one I'd never thought of, he admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old fox is still the old fox. No, tell them nothing; we'll just take them along and show them. Oh, and where are Dr. Hadron Dalla and that girl of Salgath Trod's?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're sleeping, now. Rest Room Eighteen." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What time is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About 1245," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ohhh! We just got to sleep, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're both bushed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You had a hard time. Feel all right after your narco-hyp, Zinganna?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It wasn't so bad, and I had a nice sleep. And Dalla ... Dr. Hadron, I mean--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dalla, Vall's wife corrected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remember what I told you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dalla, then, Zinganna smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dalla gave me some hypno-treatment, too. I don't feel so badly about Trod, any more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, look, Zinganna. We're going to have a man impersonate Councilman Salgath on a telecast. The cosmeticians are making him over now. Would you find it too painful to meet him, and talk to him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I wouldn't mind. I can criticize the impersonation; remember, I knew Trod very well. You know, I was his hostess, too. I met many of the people with whom he was associated, and they know me. Would things look more convincing if I appeared on the telecast with your man?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It certainly would; it would be a great help! he told her enthusiastically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe you girls ought to get up, now. The telecast isn't till 1930, but there's a lot to be done getting ready." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What I get, trying to be a cop, she said, then caught the other girl's hands and rose, pulling her up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Zinna; we have to get to work!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some of these fellows look like Second Level Khiftans, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rush an individual picture of each one, maximum magnification consistent with clarity, to Dhergabar Equivalent to be transposed to Home Time Line. You get all the dope from Zulthran Torv?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; Abzar Sector, Ranthar Jard said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd never have thought of that. Wonder why they used that series system, though. I'd have tried to spot my operations as completely at random as possible." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only thing they could have done, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When we get hold of one of their conveyers, we're going to find the control panel's just a mess of arbitrary symbols, and there'll be something like a computer-machine built into the control cabinet, to select the right time line whenever a dial's set or a button pushed, and the only way that could be done would be by establishing some kind of a numerical series. And we were trustingly expecting to locate their base from one of their conveyers! Why, if we give all those people in the pictures narco-hyps, we won't learn the base-line designation; none of them will know it. They just go where the conveyers take them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we're all set now, Ranthar Jard said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a plan of attack worked out; subject to your approval, I'm ready to start implementing it now. He glanced at his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Salgath telecast is over, on Home Time Line, and in a little while, a transcript will be on this time line. Want to watch it here, sir?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ought to be getting some sort of public reaction soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll have to admit, it was done convincingly, Zostha Olv, the Chief Interoffice Co顤dinator, admitted grudgingly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd have believed it, if I hadn't known the real facts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shooting it against the background of those wide windows was smart, Lovranth Rolk said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Every schoolchild would recognize that view of the rocketport as being on Police Terminal. And including that girl Zinganna; that was a real masterpiece!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've met her, a few times, Elbraz Vark, the Political Liaison Assistant, said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't she lovely!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good actress, too, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's not easy to impersonate yourself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Kostran Galth did a fine job of acting, too, Lovranth Rolk said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was done to perfection--the distinguished politician, supported by his loyal mistress, bravely facing the disgraceful end of his public career." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know, I believe I could get that girl a booking with one of the big theatrical companies. Now that Salgath's dead, she'll need somebody to look after her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sharp, furry ears you have, Mr. Elbraz!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We interrupt the program for an important newscast of a sensational development in the Salgath affair, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your next speaker will be Yandar Yadd--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you'd managed to get that blabbermouth transposed to PolTerm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wouldn't go. Tortha Karf replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Said it was just a trick to get him off Home Time Line during the Council crisis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're sunk! Zostha Olv grunted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'd never make a statement like that unless he could prove it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the newsman was saying." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So I checked. If you recall, the actor impersonating Salgath gestured rather freely with his hands, in imitation of a well-known mannerism of the real Salgath Trod; at one point, the ball of his right thumb was presented directly to the pickup. Here's a still of that scene." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now watch this. I'm going to step up the magnification, slowly, so that you can be sure there's no substitution. Camera a little closer, Trath!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now here, Yandar Yadd's voice continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any of you who are familiar with the ancient science of dactyloscopy will recognize this thumb as having the ridge-pattern known as a 'twin loop.' Even with the high degree of magnification possible with the microgrid screen, we can't bring out the individual ridges, but the pattern is unmistakable. I ask you to memorize that image, while I show you another right thumb print, this time a certified photo-copy of the thumb print of the real Salgath Trod. The magnification was reduced a little, a card was moved into the picture, and it was stepped up again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, this thumb print is of the type known as a 'tented arch.' Observe the difference." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That does it! Zostha Olv cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Karf, for the first and last time, let me remind you that I opposed this lunacy from the beginning. Now, what are we going to do next?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suggest that we get to Headquarters as soon as we can, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If we wait too long, we may not be able to get in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suggest we transpose to PolTerm, Lovranth Rolk said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It won't be so easy for them to serve a summons on us there." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can go to PolTerm if you want to, Tortha Karf retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to stay here and fight back, and if they try to serve me with a summons, they'd better send a robot for a process server." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fight back! Zostha Olv echoed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't fight the Council and the whole Management! They'll tear you into inch bits!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can hold them off till Vall's able to raid those Abzar Sector bases, Tortha Karf said. He thought for a moment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe this is all for the best, after all. If it distracts the Organization's attention--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish we could have made a boomerang-ball reconnaissance, Ranthar Jard was saying, watching one of the viewscreens, in which a film, taken from an airboat transposed to an adjoining Abzar sector time line, was being shown. The boat had circled over the Ganges, a mere trickle between wide, deeply cut banks, and was crossing a gullied plain, sparsely grown with thornbush." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The base ought to be about there, but we have no idea what sort of changes this gang has made." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, we couldn't: we didn't dare take the chance of it being spotted. This has to be a complete surprise. It'll be about like the other place, the one the slaves described. There won't be any permanent buildings. This operation only started a few months ago, with the Croutha invasion; it may go on for four or five months, till the Croutha have all their surplus captives sold off. That country, he added, gesturing at the screen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you'd let me go along," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can't do that, either, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Somebody's got to be in charge here, and you know your own people better than I do. Beside, this won't be the last operation like this. Next time, I'll have to stay on Police Terminal and command from a desk; I want first-hand experience with the outtime end of the job, and this is the only way I can get it." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's the ship-conveyer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Actually it's on antigrav about five miles north of here, one of the girls said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Representationally, about where Subchief Ranthar's standing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything's in place, now, Assistant Verkan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good. I'm going aboard, now, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can have it, Jard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Novilan EQ." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Assistant Verkan, a voice came out of the speaker under the screen, as the man moved his lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Deputy Skordran! Here's Chief's Assistant Verkan, now!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Vall; we're all set to move out as soon as you give the word, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're all in position on antigrav." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's smart work. We've just finished our gas-bomb net, Vall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Going on antigrav now, he added, as he felt the dome lift." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't be too disappointed if you draw a blank on your end." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We realize that they've closed out the whole Esaron Sector, Skordran Kirv, eight thousand odd miles away, replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're taking in a couple of ships; we're going to make a survey all up the coast. There are a lot of other sectors where slaves can be sold in this area." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everybody ready for transposition? he called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On my count. Thirty seconds ... Twenty seconds ... Fifteen seconds ... Five seconds ... Four seconds ... Three seconds ... Two seconds ... One second, _out!_" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "So that was it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, and I'll repeat it under narco-hyp, too," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, don't talk that way, Karf, Dalgroth Sorn scolded. He was at least a century Tortha Karf's senior; he had the face of an elderly and sore-toothed lion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wanted to keep this prisoner under wraps till you could mind-pump him, and you wanted the Organization to think Salgath was alive and talking. I approve both. But--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well. I'm raising this point, a member from the Management seats in the center was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, that telecast was a fake; that's been established," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then why was it necessary to fake the second one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I recognize Councilman Hasthor Flan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I can construct a theory that will explain that, Hasthor Flan said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suggest that when the Paratime Police were questioning Councilman Salgath under narco-hypnosis, he made statements incriminating either the Paratime Police as a whole or some member of the Paratime Police whom Tortha Karf had to protect--say somebody like Assistant Verkan. So they just killed him, and made up this impostor--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Point of special urgency! Point of special urgency! It has been requested that the news telecast screen be activated at once, with playback to 1107. An important bulletin has just come in from Nagorabar, Home Time Line, on the Indian subcontinent--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can stop swearing, now, Karf, Dalgroth Sorn grinned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is it." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing; shortly after the arrival of the second ship from Police Terminal--and believe me, that ship came in just in the nick of time!--the dead Abzar city which the criminals were using as their main base for this time line, and from which they launched the air attack against us, was located, and now word has come in that it is entirely in the hands of the Paratime Police. Personally, I doubt if a great deal of information has been gotten from any prisoners taken there. The lengths to which this Organization went to keep their own people in ignorance is simply unbelievable." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look! Dalla cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's Vall!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's Assistant Verkan, now, the commentator agreed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chief's Assistant, would you mind saying a few words, here? I know you're a busy man, sir, but you are also the public hero of Home Time Line, and everybody will be glad if you say something to them--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't expect this, from the mess outside? Vall asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know, you really are on the paracops, now. Nobody off the Force knows about this hideout of the Chief's." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better find a place like this, too, Tortha Karf advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From now on, you'll have about as much privacy at that apartment in Turquoise Towers as you'd enjoy on the stage of Dhergabar Opera House." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just what is my new position? Vall asked, hunting his cigarette case out of his tunic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Duplicate Chief of Paratime Police?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; you have the modifier in the wrong place. You're Chief of Duplicate Paratime Police. You take the setup you have now, and expand it; continue the present lines of investigation, and be ready to exploit anything new that comes up. You won't bother with any of this routine flying-saucer-scare stuff; just handle the Organization business. That'll keep you busy for a long time, I'm afraid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I notice you slammed down on the first Council member who began shouting about how you'd wiped out the Great Paratemporal Crime-Ring," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. It isn't wiped out, and it won't be wiped out for a long time. I shall be unspeakably delighted if, when I turn my job over to you, you have it wiped out. And even then, there'll be a loose end to pick up every now and then till you retire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have Council and the Management with us, now, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This was the first secret session of Executive Council in over two thousand years. And I thought I'd drop dead when they passed that motion to submit themselves to narco-hypnosis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A few Councilmen are going to drop dead before they can be narco-hypped," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A few have already. I have a list of about a dozen of them who have had fatal accidents or committed suicide, or just died or vanished since the news of your raid broke. Four of them I saw, in the screen, jump up and run out as soon as the news came in, on One-Six-Five Day. And a lot of other people; our friend Yandar Yadd's dropped out of sight, for one. You heard what we got out of those servants of Salgath Trod's?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't, Dalla said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Both spies for the Organization. They reported to a woman named Farilla, who ran a fortune-telling parlor in the Prole district. Her occult powers didn't warn her before we sent a squad of plain-clothes men for her. That was an entirely illegal arrest, by the way, but it netted us a list of about three hundred prominent political, business and social persons whose servants have been reporting to her. She thought she was working for a telecast gossipist." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's why we have a new butler, darling, Vall interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kandagro was reporting on us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who did she pass the reports on to?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She thinks more like a cop every time I talk to her, he told Vall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You better appoint her your Special Assistant. Why, about 1800 every day, some Prole would come in, give the recognition sign, and get the day's accumulation. We only got one of them, a fourteen-year-old girl. We're having some trouble getting her deconditioned to a point where she can be hypnotized into talking; by the time we do, they'll have everything closed out, I suppose. What's the latest from Abzar Sector? I missed the last report in the rush to get to this Council session." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All stalled. We're still boomeranging the sector, but it's about five billion time-lines deep, and the pattern for the Kholghoor and Esaron Sectors doesn't seem to apply. I think they have a lot of these Abzar time lines close together, and they get from one to another via some terminal on Fifth Level." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We also think that this Abzar time line was only used for the Croutha-Wizard Trader operation. Nothing we found there was more than a couple of months old; nothing since the last rainy season in India, for instance. Everything was cleaned out on Skordran Kirv's end." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell him to try the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Valleys, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A lot of those slaves are sure to have been sold to Second Level Khiftan Sector." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it looks as though our vacation's out the window for a long time," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you and Vall go to my farm, on Fifth Level Sicily, Tortha Karf suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I own the whole island, on that time line, and you can always be reached in a hurry if anything comes up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We could have as much fun there as on the Dwarma Sector, Dalla said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chief, could we take a couple of friends along?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, who?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zinganna and Kostran Galth, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've gotten interested in one another; they're talking about a tentative marriage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It'll have to be mighty tentative, Vall said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Kostran Galth can't marry a Prole." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She won't be a Prole very long. I'm going to adopt her as my sister." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You sure you know what you're doing, Dalla?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I'm sure. I know that girl better than she knows herself. I narco-hypped her, remember. Zinna's the kind of a sister I've always wished I'd had." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that's all right then. But about this marriage. She was in love with Salgath Trod, Tortha Karf said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, she's identifying Agent Kostran with him--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She was in love with the kind of man Salgath could have been if he hadn't gotten into this Organization filth, Dalla replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Galth is that kind of a man. They'll get along all right." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she'll qualify on IQ and general psych rating for Citizenship. I'll say that. And she's the kind of girl I like to see my boys take up with. Like you, Dalla. Yes, of course; take them along with you. Sicily's big enough that two couples won't get in each others' way." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, there, he explained to Dalla." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a sample of why we have to set up this duplicate organization. Revolution just broke out at Ftanna, on Third Level Tsorshay Sector; a lot of our people, mostly tourists and students, are cut off from their conveyers by street fighting. Going to be a pretty bloody business getting them out. He finished his drink and got to his feet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sit still; I just have to make a few screen-calls. Send the robot for something to eat, Vall. I'll be right back." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Dalton, said I, nervously," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There goes the bell! It's the letter carrier! Let me answer!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, let me! It's my turn this week!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I see a blue envelope. That's from Aunt Sarah!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beat you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Dinah had everything in the way and anyhow, maybe it was your turn. Mother is in the sewing room, I guess!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do read it out loud," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When can we go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now be patient, children, the mother told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll read the invitation in just a minute," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Sarah wants to know first how we all are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, we're all well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do listen, Freddie, or we won't hear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then she says, continued the mother," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Course it is. We know that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Freddie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And she asks how we would like to visit them this summer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine, like it--lovely!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell her we'll come, mamma, went on Freddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do send a letter quick won't you, mamma?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Freddie Bobbsey! spoke up Flossie, in a little girl's way of showing indignation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you would only keep quiet we could hear about going, but--you always stop mamma. Please, mamma, read the rest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I was only just saying--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now listen, dear. The mother went on once more reading from the letter:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Sarah says Cousin Harry can hardly wait until vacation time to see Bert, and she also says, 'For myself I cannot wait to see the babies. I want to hear Freddie laugh, and I want to hear Flossie say her piece," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good!--goody! broke in the irrepressible Freddie again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll just hug Aunt Sarah this way," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess she'll like that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not if you spoil her hair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that all?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, there is a message for Bert and Nan too, but I must keep that for lunch time. Nobody likes stale news," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But can't we hear it when Bert and Nan come from school?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, the mother assured her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you must run out in the air now. We have taken such a long time to read the letter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, aren't you glad!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad! I'm just--so glad--so glad--I could almost fly up in the air!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're going! we're going!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, the letter came--from Aunt Sarah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "she read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "commented Mrs. Bobbsey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Sarah has not forgotten what a good little baker you are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chocolate jumble, remarked Bert, and smacked his lips." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Nan, be sure to learn that. It sounds good," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! ha! ha! And all you-uns be goin' to de country!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Dinah, Mrs. Bobbsey told her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Farming! Ha! ha! Dat I do like. Used to farm all time home in Virginie! the maid declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I likes it fuss-rate! Yes, Dinah'll go and hoe de corn and (aside to Bert)" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bobbsey Twins, this little family had a splendid home in Lakeport, where Mr. Bobbsey was a lumber merchant. The mother and father were both young themselves, and always took part in their children's joys and sorrows, for there were sorrows sometimes. Think of poor little Freddie getting shut up all alone in a big store with only a little black kitten," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Snoop," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bobbsey Twins, for among other neighbors there was Danny Rugg, a boy who always tried to make trouble for Bert, and sometimes almost succeeded in getting Bert into" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When we get to the country we will plant trees, go fishing, and pick blackberries," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, and I'm going with Harry out exploring," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm just going to plant things, prim little Flossie lisped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just love melons and ice cream and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ice cream! Can you really plant ice cream?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to have chickens, Freddie told them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to have one of those queer chicken coops that you shut up tight and when you open it it's just full of little 'kippies.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, an incubator, you mean, Nan explained." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's a machine for raising chickens without any mother." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But mine are going to have a mother," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how can they have a mother where there isn't any for them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll get them one, Freddie protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll let Snoop be their mamma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A cat! the idea! why, he would eat 'em all up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not if I whipped him once for doing it, the brother insisted. Then Nan and Bert began to tease him for whipping the kitten after the chickens had been" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just one more night," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now come, children, Mr. Bobbsey told the excited youngsters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep track of your things. Sam will be ready in a few minutes, and then we must be off." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Snoop, Snoop! cried Freddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's in the library in the box! Dinah, get him quick, get him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here you is, Freddie! she gasped, out of breath from hurrying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't go and forget poor Snoopy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my lan' a-massy! yelled Dinah presently in distress." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sam Johnson, you jest turn dat hoss around quick, and she jerked at the reins herself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You heah, Sam? Quick, I tells you. Get back to dat house. I'se forgot to bring--to bring my lunch basket!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, never mind, Dinah, Mrs. Bobbsey interrupted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will have lunch on the train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I couldn't leab dat nice lunch I got ready fo' de chillen in between, missus, the colored woman urged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get it quick as a wink. Now, Sam, you rush in dar quick, and fetch dat red and white basket dat smells like chicken!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the fireman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fireman! Freddie repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not like our firemen. I wouldn't be that kind," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, this is another kind," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess Snoop's afraid," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, chile, she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a weighing machine, Nan said with a laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You just put a penny in it and it tells you how much you weigh besides playing a tune." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lan' o' massy! does it? Wonder has I time to try it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, come on, called Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father said we have plenty of time, and at the word Dinah set out to get weighed. She looked a little scared, as if it might" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, ain't dat fine! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wouldn't dat be splendid in de kitchen to weigh de flour, Freddie?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All aboard for Meadow Brook!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad Dinah looks nice, Flossie whispered to her mother, when she saw how beautiful the parlor car was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And isn't Freddie good?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pullman car baggage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to let Snoop out!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he won't, Mr. Bobbsey assured her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will watch out for that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, Snoop, coaxed Nan, also alarmed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Snoop!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mercy me! screamed the lady, as she awoke with Snoop's tail whisking over her face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goodness, gracious! what is that?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, will they kill Snoop now? Freddie almost cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinah, please help me get him!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have to put him back in the box, Mr. Bobbsey declared, but that was easier said than done, for no sooner would one of the Bobbseys approach the cat than Snoop would walk himself off. And not on the floor either, but up and down the velvet chairs, and in and out under the passengers' arms. Strange to say, not one of the people minded it, but all petted Snoop until, as Bert said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He owned the car." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dat cat am de worst! Dinah exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, the porter! the porter! Bert cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll surely throw Snoop out of the window." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Snoop! Snoop!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cat? exclaimed the good-looking colored man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scat! Well, I declare! What you think of that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will he eat him?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you is a nice little kitten," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, please, Mr. Porter, give me my cat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yours, is it? Well, I don't blame you, boy, for bringing dat cat along. An' say, and the porter leaned down to the frightened Freddie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I didn't know it was wrong, and I'll put him right back in the box," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, say, son! the porter exclaimed as Mr. Bobbsey came up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you say if you papa let you come back in de kitchen wid me? Den you can jest see how I treat de kitty-cat!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you got dar? Somethin' fer soup?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat's de way to drink soup on a fast train, laughed the porter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You makes sure of it dat way, and saves your clothes. Ha! ha! ha!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have missed so much of the beautiful scenery, Nan told Freddie and her father when they joined the party again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just see those mountains over there," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor little chap! Mr. Bobbsey remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is tired out, and he was so worried about Snoop!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad we were able to get this sofa, so many other people like a rest and there are only four sofas on each car," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a beautiful grove of white birch trees! Nan exclaimed, as the train swung into a ravine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And see the soft ferns clinging about them. Mother, the ferns around the birch tree make me think of the fine lace about your throat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, daughter, you seem to be quite poetical!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What time will we get there, papa?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In time for dinner Aunt Sarah said, that is if they keep dinner for us until one o'clock," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems as if we had been on the train all night," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we started early, dear, the mother assured the tired little girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps you would like one of Dinah's dainty sandwiches now?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat's to heat milk fo' babies," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take you time, honeys, Dinah told her charges." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If dey is very hungry dey can get ice cream outside." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But mother never lets us eat strange ice cream, Flossie reminded the maid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And maybe they can't either." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "One hour more!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now we better all close our eyes and rest, so that we will feel good when we get to Meadow Brook," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, don't forget anything," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Snoop, Snoop! cried Freddie as, having reached the platform, they now saw the train start off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forgot Snoop! Get him quick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dat kitten again! Dinah exclaimed, with some indignation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's more trouble den--den de whole family!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Snoop!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to keep him, stammered the porter," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare, you can't see anybody," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Sarah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Uncle Dan!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Harry!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hello! How do? How are you? How be you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here at last!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "All aboard for Meadow Brook farm!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how cool the trees are out here!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My, how sweet it is!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No more Snoop in this trip, laughed Mr. Bobbsey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has had all the fun he needs for to-day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do let me get out? pleaded Nan presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See that field of orange lilies." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not now, dear, Aunt Sarah told her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinner is spoiling for us, and we can often walk down here to get flowers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the cute little calf! Look!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at the billy-goat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, see, that big black chicken flying!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a hawk! laughed Bert;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A children hawk!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello there, neighbor, called a voice from the field at the side of the road." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My horse has fallen in the ditch, and I'll have to trouble you to help me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, certainly, Peter," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Peter! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the second horse that fell in that ditch this week. And it's an awful job to get them out. I'll just wait to see if they need our Billy, and if not, we can drive on home, for Martha will be most crazy waiting with dinner." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that horse is a boarder too! Peter told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Last night we said he looked awful sad, but we didn't think he would commit suicide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Got plenty of blankets?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four of them, and these planks. But I couldn't get a man around. Lucky you happened by," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could get a strap around him!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, my lad, go ahead," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, Ginger! Get up, Ginger!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess we'll have to get Billy to pull," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't let Billy fall in!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't I go, papa? Freddie pleaded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll stay away from the edge!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You better stay in the wagon; the horse might cut up when he gets out," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! shouted Freddie from the wagon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Billy is a circus horse, isn't he, Uncle Dan?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's a good boy," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hot work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so glad you could help Peter, Aunt Sarah told him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All kinds of things happen in the country," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nice fellows," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They seem so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've made up a lot of sports, Harry went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we are," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Martha!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got here at last!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad to see you, Martha, Dinah told her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, I had to come along. And Snoop too, our kitty. We fetched him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The more the merrier, replied the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Starved to death!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll wash up a bit and join you in a few minutes, ladies," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Got Snoop dis time, Freddie lisped, knocking the cover off the box and petting the frightened little black cat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hungry, Snoopy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bring the poor kitty out to the kitchen, Martha told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll get him a nice saucer of fresh milk." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I pride myself on those zinnias, the uncle told Nan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are just beautiful, uncle, Nan replied, in real admiration." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have always loved zinnias. And they last so long?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All summer. Then, what do you think of my sweet peas?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, auntie, what queer little chickens!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those are Harry's homer pigeons, the aunt explained." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some day we must go off to the woods and let the birds fly home with a letter to Dinah and Martha." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, please do it now," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We couldn't to-day, dear, Aunt Sarah told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, let me show you our new little calf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me ride her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Calfs aren't for riding, they're for milk," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, this one drinks plenty of milk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then let me take her for a walk," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And they don't walk either, Flossie persisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They mostly run." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could just hold the rope, couldn't I, Aunt Sarah?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you keep away from the barnyard gate, and hold her very tight," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nice Frisky, he told the calf, petting her fondly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty calf, will you let Snoop play with you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Frisky, take a walk," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoa, Frisky! whoa!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold tight, Freddie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whoa, whoa! yelled the little boy constantly, but he might as well have called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get app," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look out, Freddie! Let go!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you dead?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, he murmured once more," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind her, Aunt Sarah said, anxiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you hurt, dear!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No--not--a bit. But look! There goes Frisky! Catch her!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your poor little hands! Flossie almost cried, kissing the red blisters." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, they're cut!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Firemen have to slide on ropes! Freddie spoke up, recovering himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are a brave little boy, Aunt Sarah assured him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You just sit here with sister while I try to get that naughty Frisky before she spoils the garden." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Runaway calf! Runaway calf! called the boys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop the runaway!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The river! The river!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'll jump in!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, she's gone now, sure! called Harry" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's footprints!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And they end here!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's gone!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how could she drown so quickly?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guess that's the channel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen! Thought I heard something in the bushes!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tried to be a fireman! blubbered Freddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't care if the rope hurted my hands either!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If only I didn't go in to see the chickens nests, Flossie whimpered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could have helped Freddie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never you mind, little 'uns, Dinah told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinah go and fetch dat Frisky back to-morrer. See if she don't. You jest don't cry no more, but eat you supper and take a good sleep, 'cause we're goin' to have a picnic to-morrer you knows, doesn't youse?" } ]