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19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they know another way down, maybe we'd better follow them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're not going down. They're going to the lumber plant, in case the fire spreads upward, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They wouldn't be taking that sort of equipment to a wax fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you were in the wax business,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am, but I'm no chemist. I don't know anything about how wax burns. All I know is what it's used for, roughly, and who's in the market for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you know about those jumbo molecules, don't you? I asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have everything but the kitchen sink in them, including enough oxygen to sustain combustion even under water or in a vacuum. Not enough oxygen to make wax explode, like powder, but enough to keep it burning. Chemical extinguishers are all smothering agents, and you just can't smother a wax fire. And water's worse than useless."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Burning wax is a liquid. The melting point is around 250 degrees Centigrade. Wax ignites at 750. It has no boiling point, unless that's the burning point. Throw water on a wax fire and you get a steam explosion, just as you would if you threw it on molten metal, and that throws the fire around and spreads it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it melts that far below the ignition point, wouldn't it run away before it caught fire?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Normally, it would. That's why I'm sure this fire was a touch-off. I think somebody planted a thermoconcentrate bomb. A thermoconcentrate flame is around 850 Centigrade; the wax would start melting and burning almost instantaneously. In any case, the fire will be at the bottom of the stacks. If it started there, melted wax would run down from above and keep the fire going, and if it started at the top, burning wax would run down and ignite what's below."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, how in blazes do you put a wax fire out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't. You just pull away all the wax that hasn't caught fire yet, and then try to scatter the fire and let it burn itself out.... Here's our chance!"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where'd that thing come from?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hunters' Hall; Steve Ravick sent it. The other two are up at the fire already, and if this mess ahead doesn't get straightened out...."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You getting everything I'm sending in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. What's that two-em-dashed thing up ahead, one of the harbor dredgers?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right. Hey, look at this, once. I turned the audiovisual down on the claw derrick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The men on it look like Rodriguez & Oughourlian's people, but they say Steve Ravick sent it. What do you know about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, Ralph! What's this Walt's picked up about Ravick sending equipment to fight the fire?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wasn't Ravick, it was Mort Hallstock. He commandeered the Co-op equipment and sent it up, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He called me and wanted to know whom to send for it that Ravick's gang wouldn't start shooting at right away. Casmir Oughourlian sent some of his men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I get it, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallstock's getting ready to dump Ravick out the airlock. He sees, now, that Ravick's a dead turkey; he doesn't want to go into the oven along with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walt, can't you ever give anybody credit with trying to do something decent, once in a while?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I can. Decent people. There are a lot of them around, but Mort Hallstock isn't one of them. There was an Old Terran politician named Al Smith, once. He had a little saying he used in that kind of case: 'Let's look at the record.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Mort's record isn't very impressive, I'll give you that, Dad admitted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand Mort's up at the fire now. Don't spit in his eye if you run into him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't, I promised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm kind of particular where I spit."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Joe, they simply won't! His Honor was wailing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did talk to Mr. Fieschi; he says he knows this is an emergency, but there's a strict company directive against using the spaceport area for storage of anything but cargo that has either just come in or is being shipped out on the next ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this all about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fieschi, at the spaceport, won't let us store this wax in the spaceport area, Joe said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We got to get it stored somewhere; we need a lot of floor space to spread this fire out on, once we get into it. We have to knock the burning wax cylinders apart, and get them separated enough so that burning wax won't run from one to another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, why can't we store it in the spaceport area? Murell wanted to know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is going out on the next ship. I'm consigning it to Exotic Organics, in Buenos Aires. He turned to Joe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are those skins all marked to indicate who owns them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right. And any we gather up loose, from busted skins, we can figure some way of settling how much anybody's entitled to from them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right. Get me a car and run me to the spaceport. Call them and tell them I'm on the way. I'll talk to Fieschi myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martha! Joe yelled to his wife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Car and driver, quick. And then call the spaceport for me; get Mr. Fieschi or Mr. Mansour on screen."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Ravick is at Hunters' Hall, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He thought it would be unwise to make a public appearance just now. Oh, brother, what an understatement!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There seems to be a lot of public feeling against him, due to some misconception that he was responsible for what happened to Captain Kivelson's ship. Of course, that is absolutely false. Mr. Ravick had absolutely nothing to do with that. He wasn't anywhere near the _Javelin_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's Al Devis?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who? I don't believe I know him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could have told him where Al Devis is, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I couldn't, either, he corrected himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a religious question, and I don't discuss religion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who got him?"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, they told these fellows that there was more room over on the other side of the stacks, and the lorry went up above the stacks and started across, and when they were about the middle, one of the men in it threw out a thermoconcentrate bomb. The lorry took off, right away. The only thing was that there were two men in the jeep, and one of them was at the machine gun. They'd lifted to follow the lorry over and show them where to put this wax, and as soon as the bomb went off, the man at the gun grabbed it and caught the lorry in his sights and let go. This fellow hadn't been covering for cutting-up work for years for nothing. He got one burst right in the control cabin, and the lorry slammed into the next column foundation. After they called in an alarm on the fire the bomb had started, a couple of them went to see who'd been in the lorry. The two men in it were both dead, and one of them was Al Devis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pity, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd been looking forward to putting a recording of his confession on the air. Where is this lorry now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Almost directly on the other side. We have a couple of men guarding it. The bodies are still in it. We don't want any tampering with it till it can be properly examined; we want to have the facts straight, in case Hallstock tries to make trouble for the men who did the shooting."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go get some shots of it,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a meat-grinder, coming right for me,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I'm going out and take a look at that lorry."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Fieschi! I called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me a few seconds and say something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just came out to see how much more could be saved, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have close to a thousand tons on the shipping floor or out of danger here and on the way in, and it looks as though you'll be able to save that much more. That'll be a million and a half sols we can be sure of, and a possible three million, at the new price. And I want to take this occasion, on behalf of my company and of Terra-Odin Spacelines, to welcome a new freight shipper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's wonderful news for everybody on Fenris, I said, and added mentally,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I know it happened; I passed the ambulance on the way out. I certainly hope they get to work on him in time."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everybody away from the front! Get the blowers in; start in on the other side!"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have all the fire you want, for a while?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brother, and how! We could have used a little of this over on Hermann Reuch's Land, though. Have you seen Tom around anywhere?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. Have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw him over there, about an hour ago. I guess he stayed on this side. After they started blowing it, I was over on Al Devis's side. He whistled softly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was that a mess!"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't fool around, one man was saying as we came up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't even bother looking for a rope. Just shoot them as soon as you see them."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not that, another man said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Tom Kivelson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you hear? He got splashed with burning wax, the hunter said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His whole back was on fire; I don't know whether he's alive now or not."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joe, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just heard about Tom. Do you know anything yet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Walt. Why, as far as we know, he's alive. He was alive when they got him to the hospital."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's at the spaceport?"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's been badly burned, all over the back. They're preparing to do a deep graft on him. They said his condition was serious, but he was alive five minutes ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I don't suppose there's anything we can do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can clean up on the gang that started this fire, Oscar Fujisawa said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do it now; then if Tom doesn't make it, he's paid for in advance."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the situation at Hunters' Hall?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything's quiet there. The police left when Hallstock commandeered that fire-fighting equipment. They helped the shipyard men get it out, and then they all went to the Municipal Building. As far as I know, both Ravick and Belsher are still in Hunters' Hall. I'm in contact with the vehicles on guard at the approaches; I'll call them now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nip Spazoni and a few others are bringing men and guns up from the docks and putting a cordon around the place on the Main City Level, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your father will probably be hearing that they're moving into position now."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the jeep that reported Bish Ware going in on the bottom, Mohandas Feinberg said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if somebody inside mightn't have gotten both the man on the jeep and Bish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He could have left the jeep, Joe said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe he went inside after Bish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Funny he didn't call in and say so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it isn't, I contradicted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manufacturers' claims to the contrary, there is no such thing as a tap-proof radio. Maybe he wasn't supposed to leave his post, but if he did, he used his head not advertising it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That makes sense, Oscar agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, whatever happened, we're not doing anything standing around up here. Let's get it started."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, after all, is Boyd such a reliable source? He was only seventeen years old at the time."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have to bombard the place, he was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We try to rush it and we'll lose half our gang before we get in. One man with good cover and a machine gun's good for a couple of hundred in the open."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bish may be inside,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Oscar said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, how are you going to do it, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You stay up here. Keep them amused with a little smallarms fire at the windows and so on. I'll take about a dozen men and go down to Second Level. If we can't do anything else, we can bring a couple of skins of tallow-wax down and set fire to it and smoke them out."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's been sleep-gassed."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're in, I said when Joe Kivelson answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop the shooting; we're coming up to the vehicle port."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Might as well. Nobody's paying any attention to it,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going up, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've all lammed out. The place is empty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know that, Oscar chided."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might be bulging with Ravick's thugs, waiting for us to come walking up and be mowed down."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can come in, now, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The place is empty. Nobody here but us Vigilantes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh? Joe couldn't believe that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How'd they get out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They got out on the Second Level Down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you bring him to? What did he say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing; we didn't. We can't. You get sleep-gassed, you sleep till you wake up. That ought to be two to four hours for this fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, hold everything; we're coming in."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You didn't find Bish Ware, either, I'll bet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid they took him along for a hostage, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The guard was knocked out with Walt's gas gadget, that Bish was carrying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha! Joe cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bet you it was the other way round; Bish took them out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was what I was afraid you'd find. Glenn Murell called in from the spaceport a few minutes ago. He says Mort Hallstock came in with his car, and he heard from some of the workmen that Bish Ware, Steve Ravick and Leo Belsher came in on the Main City Level in a jeep. They claimed protection from a mob, and Captain Courtland's police are protecting them."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say that again, Ralph,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut up, a couple of hundred of you, and listen! he commanded, on the heels of the blast. Then he turned to the screen again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Ralph; what was it you were saying?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallstock got to the spaceport about half an hour ago, Dad said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He bought a ticket to Terra. Sigurd Ngozori's here; he called the bank and one of the clerks there told him that Hallstock had checked out his whole account, around three hundred thousand sols. Took some of it in cash and the rest in Banking Cartel drafts. Murell says that his information is that Bish Ware, Steve Ravick and Leo Belsher arrived earlier, about an hour ago. He didn't see them himself, but he talked with spaceport workmen who did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we'll have to go to the spaceport and get them, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And take four ropes instead of three."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to fight your way in, Dad told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Odin Dock & Shipyard won't let you take people out of their spaceport without a fight. They've all bought tickets by now, and Fieschi will have to protect them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we'll kick the blankety-blank spaceport apart,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll do nothing of the kind. We need that spaceport to stay alive. But we will take Ravick and Belsher and Hallstock--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that etaoin shrdlu traitor of a Ware!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Bish Ware, Oscar agreed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They only have fifty police; we have three or four thousand men."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll bet Ware was working for Ravick all along,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he was working for Ravick all along, why did he tip Dad and Oscar and the Mahatma on the bomb aboard the _Javelin_? That wasn't any help to Ravick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I get it, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He never was working for anybody but Bish Ware. When Ravick got into a jam, he saw a way to make something for himself by getting Ravick out of it. I'll bet, ever since he came here, he was planning to cut in on Ravick somehow. You notice, he knew just how much money Ravick had stashed away on Terra? When he saw the spot Ravick was in, Bish just thought he had a chance to develop himself another rich uncle."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why get excited about it? I asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have what you wanted. You said yourself that you couldn't care less whether Ravick got away or not, as long as you got him out of the Co-op. Well, he's out for good now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was before the fire, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We didn't have a couple of million sols' worth of wax burned. And Tom Kivelson wasn't in the hospital with half the skin burned off his back, and a coin toss whether he lives or not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. I thought you were Tom's friend,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, Walt, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you can't measure everything in barrels of whale oil. Or skins of tallow-wax."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, that's far enough, now. The first vehicle that comes within a hundred yards of this gate will be shot down."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lieutenant Ranjit, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm representing the _Times_. I have business inside the spaceport. I want to get the facts about this. It may be that when I get this story, these people will be satisfied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will, like Nifflheim! I heard Joe Kivelson bawling, above and behind me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want the men who started the fire my son got burned in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that the Kivelson boy's father? the Sikh asked me, and when I nodded, he lifted the phone to his lips again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Kivelson, the loudspeaker said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's easy. We'll get them afterward,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody may. You won't, Ranjit Singh told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Van Steen, hit that ship's boat first, and hit it at the first hostile move anybody in this mob makes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. With pleasure,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Boyd, he said. None of this sonny-boy stuff; Ranjit Singh was a man of dignity, and he respected the dignity of others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I admit you to the spaceport, will you give these people the facts exactly as you learn them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what the _Times_ always does, Lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you people accept what this _Times_ reporter tells you he has learned?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't! That was Joe Kivelson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's always taking the part of that old rumpot of a Bish Ware."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lieutenant, that remark was a slur on my paper, as well as myself, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you permit Captain Kivelson to come in along with me? And somebody else, I couldn't resist adding,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. You may choose five men to accompany Mr. Boyd, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They may not bring weapons in with them. Sidearms, he added,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the dirty traitor who sold us out! He's the worst of the lot; I wouldn't be surprised if--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be quiet! he ordered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not follow this man you call Ravick here to this ... this running-hot-and-cold Paradise planet, and I did not spend five years fraternizing with its unwashed citizenry and creating for myself the role of town drunkard of Port Sandor, to have him taken from me and lynched after I have arrested him. People do not lynch my prisoners."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And who in blazes are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell them, if you please, Mr. Fieschi,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Mr. Ware is a Terran Federation Executive Special Agent, Fieschi said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Courtland and I have known that for the past five years. As far as I know, nobody else was informed of Mr. Ware's position."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it might be something like that, he lied brazenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Bish ... Excuse me, I mean, Mr. Ware..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bish, if you please, Oscar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bish, what I'd like to know is what you wanted with Ravick, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They didn't send any Executive Special Agent here for five years to investigate this tallow-wax racket of his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. We have been looking for him for a long time. Fifteen years, and I've been working on it that long. You might say, I have made a career of him. Steve Ravick is really Anton Gerrit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aha! The infamous Anton Gerrit! Brought to book at last!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know that name, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something on Loki, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Loki enslavements. Was that it? I asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I read about it, but I never seem to have heard of Gerrit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was the mastermind. The ones who were caught, fifteen years ago, were the underlings, but Ravick was the real Number One. He was responsible for the enslavement of from twenty to thirty thousand Lokian natives, gentle, harmless, friendly people, most of whom were worked to death in the mines."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I landed here, I contacted Mr. Fieschi, and we found that a man answering to Gerrit's description had come in on the _Peenemünde_ from Odin seven years before, about the time Gerrit had left Odin. The man who called himself Steve Ravick. Of course, he didn't look anything like the pictures of Gerrit, but facial surgery was something we'd taken for granted he'd have done. I finally managed to get his fingerprints."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Walt. I wouldn't have been able to do this if I hadn't had that. Where was I? Oh, yes. I got Gerrit-alias-Ravick's fingerprints, which did not match the ones we had on file for Gerrit, and sent them in. It was eighteen months later that I got a reply on them. According to his fingerprints, Steve Ravick was really a woman named Ernestine Coyón, who had died of acute alcoholism in the free public ward of a hospital at Paris-on-Baldur fourteen years ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, that's incredible! the Reverend Zilker burst out, and Joe Kivelson was saying:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steve Ravick isn't any woman...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Least of all one who died fourteen years ago, Bish agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the fingerprints were hers. A pauper, dying in a public ward of a big hospital. And a man who has to change his identity, and who has small, woman-sized hands. And a crooked hospital staff surgeon. You get the picture now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're doing the same thing on Tom's back, right here, I told Joe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only you can't grow fingerprints by carniculture, the way you can human tissue for grafting. They had to have palm and finger surfaces from a pair of real human hands. A pauper, dying in a free-treatment ward, her body shoved into a mass-energy converter. Then I thought of something else."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That showoff trick of his, crushing out cigarettes in his palm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, six months going, and a couple of months waiting on reports from other planets, and six months coming, and so on, it wasn't until the _Peenemünde_ got in from Terra, the last time, that I got final confirmation. Dr. Watson, you'll recall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, you perceived, had been in Afghanistan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You caught that? Careless of me, Bish chided himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What he gave me was a report that they had finally located a man who had been a staff surgeon at this hospital on Baldur at the time. He's now doing a stretch for another piece of malpractice he was unlucky enough to get caught at later. We will not admit making deals with any criminals, in jail or out, but he is willing to testify, and is on his way to Terra now. He can identify pictures of Anton Gerrit as those of the man he operated on fourteen years ago, and his testimony and Ernestine Coyón's fingerprints will identify Ravick as that man. With all the Colonial Constabulary and Army Intelligence people got on Gerrit on Loki, simple identification will be enough. Gerrit was proven guilty long ago, and it won't be any trouble, now, to prove that Ravick is Gerrit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't you arrest him as soon as you got the word from your friend from Afghanistan?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I didn't realize, at the time, was what a human H-bomb this man Murell would turn into. Then everything blew up at once. Finally, I was left with the choice of helping Gerrit escape from Hunters' Hall or having him lynched before I could arrest him. He turned to Kivelson."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the light of what you knew, I don't blame you for calling me a dirty traitor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how did I know..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right. You weren't supposed to. That was before you found out. You ought to have heard what Gerrit and Belsher--as far as I know, that is his real name--called me after they found out, when they got out of that jeep and Captain Courtland's men snapped the handcuffs on them. It even shocked a hardened sinner like me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are they doing about Belsher and Hallstock?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Belsher goes back to Terra with Ravick. Gerrit, I mean. That's where he collected his cut on the tallow-wax, so that is where he'd have to be tried. Bish is convinced that somebody in Kapstaad Chemical must have been involved, too. Hallstock is strictly a local matter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's about what I thought. With all this interstellar back-and-forth, it'll be a long time before we'll be able to write thirty under the story."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we can put thirty under the Steve Ravick story,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ravick story's finished. But we still have the Anton Gerrit story, and I'm going to work on it right now."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to let me have a cigarette and a cup of coffee, when I'm through with this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I don't have any coffee, but you can have one of my cigarettes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walt! How'd you get in here? I thought they weren't going to let anybody in to see me till this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Power of the press, I told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bluff, blarney, and blackmail. How are they treating you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Awful. Look what they gave me for lunch. I thought we were on short rations down on Hermann Reuch's Land. How's Father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's all right. They took the splint off, but he still has to carry his arm in a sling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucky guy; he can get around on his feet, and I'll bet he isn't starving, either. You know, speaking about food, I'm going to feel like a cannibal eating carniculture meat, now. My whole back's carniculture. He filled his mouth with whatever it was they were feeding him and asked, through it:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I miss Steve Ravick's hanging?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't these people told you anything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nah; they wouldn't even tell me the right time. Afraid it would excite me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go on; what happened?"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gerrit's going to Terra, and from there to Loki. They want the natives to see what happens to a Terran who breaks Terran law; teach them that our law isn't just to protect us. Belsher's going to Terra, too. There was a big ship captains' meeting; they voted to reclaim their wax and sell it individually to Murell, but to retain membership in the Co-op. They think they'll have to stay in the Co-op to get anything that's gettable out of Gerrit's and Belsher's money. Oscar Fujisawa and Cesário Vieira are going to Terra on the _Cape Canaveral_ to start suit to recover anything they can, and also to petition for reclassification of Fenris. Oscar's coming back on the next ship, but Cesário's going to stay on as the Co-op representative. I suppose he and Linda will be getting married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Natch. They'll both stay on Terra, I suppose. Hey, whattaya know! Cesário's getting off Fenris without having to die and reincarnate."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bet a lot of people wanted to hang him, too, before they found out who he was and what he'd really done. What's my father think of Bish, now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bish Ware is a great and good man, and the savior of Fenris, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he was real smart, to keep an act like that up for five years. Your father modestly admits that it even fooled him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bet Oscar Fujisawa knew it all along."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Oscar modestly admits that he suspected something of the sort, but he didn't feel it was his place to say anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope they wait till I can get out of here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Odin Dock & Shipyard claim he's a political refugee and they won't give him up. They did loan us a couple of accountants to go over the city books, to see if we could find any real evidence of misappropriation, and whattaya know, there were no city books. The city of Port Sandor didn't keep books. We can't even take that three hundred thousand sols away from him; for all we can prove, he saved them out of his five-thousand-sol-a-year salary. He's shipping out on the _Cape Canaveral_, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we don't have any government at all!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you fooling yourself we ever had one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we have one now. A temporary dictatorship; Bish Ware is dictator. Fieschi loaned him Ranjit Singh and some of his men. The first thing he did was gather up the city treasurer and the chief of police and march them to the spaceport; Fieschi made Hallstock buy them tickets, too. But there aren't going to be any unofficial hangings. This is a law-abiding planet, now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you had your lunch yet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I was waiting for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll get it, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought the other nurse had brought it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did so have your lunch!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you mean these samples? Why, they were good; I'll take all of them. And a big slab of roast beef, and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes. And how about some ice cream?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't worry, Tom, I told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get my lawyer to spring you out of this jug, and then we'll take you to my place and fill you up on Mrs. Laden's cooking."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The commander of the _Bolivar_ says he'll take your story to Terra with him, and see that it gets to Interworld News, Dad told me as we were sorting the corrected master sheets and loading them into the photoprint machine, to be sent out on the air."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The _Bolivar_'ll make Terra at least two hundred hours ahead of the _Cape Canaveral_. Interworld will be glad to have it. It isn't often they get a story like that with the first news of anything, and this'll be a big story."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shouldn't have given me the exclusive by-line, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did as much work on it as I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I didn't, either, he contradicted,"
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, Walt, I've been thinking, lately,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've all had to do a lot of thinking, lately,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. You know, they want me to be mayor of Port Sandor."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to take it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose I'll have to, if they really want me. Be a sort of obligation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want me to try to handle for you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Walt, that's what I've been thinking about, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been thinking about it for a long time, and particularly since things got changed around here. I think you ought to go to school some more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, back to Hartzenbosch? I asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could teach him more than he could teach me, now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I doubt that, Walt. Professor Hartzenbosch may be an old maid in trousers, but he's really a very sound scholar. But I wasn't thinking about that. I was thinking about your going to Terra to school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh? I forgot to eat, for a moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's stop kidding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't start kidding; I meant it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, think again, Dad. It costs money to go to school on Terra. It even costs money to go to Terra."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have a little money, Walt. Maybe more than you think we do. And with things getting better, we'll lease more teleprinters and get more advertising. You're likely to get better than the price of your passage out of that story we're sending off on the _Bolivar_, and that won't be the end of it, either. Fenris is going to be in the news for a while. You may make some more money writing. That's why I was careful to give you the by-line on that Gerrit story. His pipe had gone out again; he took time out to relight it, and then added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything I spend on this is an investment. The _Times_ will get it back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's another thing; the paper, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you're going to be mayor, you won't be able to do everything you're doing on the paper now, and then do all my work too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, shocking as the idea may be, I think we can find somebody to replace you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Name one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Lillian Arnaz, at the Library, has always been interested in newspaper work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A girl! I hooted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have any idea of some of the places I have to go to get stories?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. I have always deplored the necessity. But a great many of them have been closed lately, and the rest are being run in a much more seemly manner. And she wouldn't be the only reporter. I hesitate to give you any better opinion of yourself than you have already, but it would take at least three people to do the work you've been doing. When you get back from Terra, you'll find the _Times_ will have a very respectable reportorial staff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll I be, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Editor, Dad told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll retire and go into politics full time. And if Fenris is going to develop the way I believe it will, the editor of the _Times_ will need a much better education than I have."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walt, this doesn't have to be settled right away, Dad said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You won't be going on the _Simón Bolivar_, along with Ravick and Belsher. And that reminds me. Have you talked to Bish lately? He'd be hurt if you didn't see him before he left."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, this is what we've always been screaming our heads off for. Now we've got it good and hard; we'll just have to get used to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad you dropped in, Walt. Find a seat. How are things on the _Times_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to know. You're making things busy for us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. There's so much to do, and so little time to do it. Seems as though I've heard somebody say that before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going back to Terra on the _Simón Bolivar_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Allah forbid! I made a trip on a destroyer, once, and once is enough for a lifetime. I won't even be able to go on the _Cape Canaveral_; I'll take the _Peenemünde_ when she gets in. I'm glad MacBride--Dr. Watson--is going to stop off. He'll be a big help. Don't know what I'd have done without Ranjit Singh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That won't be till after the _Cape Canaveral_ gets back from Terra."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. That's why I'm waiting. Don't publish this, Walt, I don't want to start any premature rumors that might end in disappointments, but I've recommended immediate reclassification to Class III, and there may be a Colonial Office man on the _Cape Canaveral_ when she gets in. Resident-Agent, permanent. I hope so; he'll need a little breaking in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw Tom Kivelson this morning, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He seems to be getting along pretty well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't anybody at the hospital tell you about him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish military security was half as good. Why, Tom's permanently injured. He won't be crippled, or anything like that, but there was considerable unrepairable damage to his back muscles. He'll be able to get around, but I doubt it he'll ever be able to work on a hunter-ship again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll just have to make a new life for himself. Joe says he's going to send him to school on Terra. He thinks that was his own idea, but I suggested it to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dad wants me to go to school on Terra."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's a fine idea. Tom's going on the _Peenemünde_, along with me. Why don't you come with us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That would be great, Bish. I'd like it. But I just can't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, they want Dad to be mayor, and if he runs, they'll all vote for him. He can't handle this and the paper both alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can get help on both jobs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but ... Why, it would be years till I got back. I can't sacrifice the time. Not now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd say six years. You can spend your voyage time from here cramming for entrance qualifications. Schools don't bother about academic credits any more; they're only interested in how much you know. You take four years' regular college, and a year postgrading, and you'll have all the formal education you'll need."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Bish, I can get that here, at the Library, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have every book on film that's been published since the Year Zero."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. And you'd die of old age before you got a quarter through the first film bank, and you still wouldn't have an education. Do you know which books to study, and which ones not to bother with? Or which ones to read first, so that what you read in the others will be comprehensible to you? That's what they'll give you on Terra. The tools, which you don't have now, for educating yourself."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't take the time. I have to be doing things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll do things. You'll do them a lot better for waiting those six years. You aren't eighteen yet. Six years is a whole third of your past life. No wonder it seems long to you. But you're thinking the wrong way; you're relating those six years to what has passed. Relate them to what's ahead of you, and see how little time they are. You take ordinary care of yourself and keep out of any more civil wars, and you have sixty more years, at least. Your six years at school are only one-tenth of that. I was fifty when I came here to this Creator's blunder of a planet. Say I had only twenty more years; I spent a quarter of them playing town drunk here. I'm the one who ought to be in a rush and howling about lost time, not you. I ought to be in such a hurry I'd take the _Simón Bolivar_ to Terra and let this place go to--to anywhere you might imagine to be worse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, I don't think you like Fenris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't. If I were a drinking man, this planet would have made a drunkard of me. Now, you forget about these six years chopped out of your busy life. When you get back here, with an education, you'll be a kid of twenty-four, with a big long life ahead of you and your mind stocked with things you don't have now that will help you make something--and more important, something enjoyable--out of it."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The End."
}
]
|
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LITTLE FUZZY"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Story"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MORMONISM"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon drama is laid almost entirely in Utah; indeed, the terms"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon question and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Utah question have been often used interchangeably. True it is, that the development of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is here used in its commonest application--that of the first stages apparent to ordinary observation--the visible birth of the system. But a long, long period of preparation had led to this physical coming forth of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon religion, a period marked by a multitude of historical events, some of them preceding by centuries the earthly beginning of this modern system of prophetic trust. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon history, we are introduced to a man whose name will ever be prominent in the story of the Church--the founder of the organization by common usage of the term, the head of the system as an earthly establishment--one who is accepted by the Church as an ambassador specially commissioned of God to be the first revelator of the latter-day dispensation. This man is Joseph Smith, commonly known as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon prophet. Rarely indeed does history present an organization, religious, social, or political, in which an individual holds as conspicuous and in all ways as important a place as does this man in the development of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is my beloved Son, hear Him. In answer to the lad's prayer, the heavenly personage so designated informed Joseph that the Spirit of God dwelt not with warring sects, which, while professing a form of godliness, denied the power thereof, and that he should join none of them. Overjoyed at the glorious manifestation thus granted unto him, the boy prophet could not withhold from relatives and acquaintances tidings of the heavenly vision. From the ministers, who had been so energetic in their efforts to convert the boy, he received, to his surprise, abuse and ridicule."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Visions and manifestations from God, said they,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Book of Mormon,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the Book of Mormon? --a very pertinent one on the part of every earnest student and investigator of this phase of American history--has been partly answered already. The work has been derisively called the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon Bible, a name that carries with it the misrepresentation that in the faith of this people the book takes the place of the scriptural volume which is universally accepted by Christian sects. No designation could be more misleading, and in every way more untruthful. The Latter-day Saints have but one"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bible"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which Ezekiel declared should become one with the"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manuscript Story was given, and which, but for the unauthorized use of the writer's name and the misrepresentation of his motives, would never have been published. Twenty years after the author's death, one Hurlburt, an apostate"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon, announced that he had recognized a resemblance between the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manuscript Story and the Book of Mormon, and expressed a belief that the work brought forward by Joseph Smith was nothing but the Spaulding romance revised and amplified. The apparent credibility of the statement was increased by various signed declarations to the effect that the two were alike, though no extracts for comparison were presented. But the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Manuscript Story was lost for a time, and in the absence of proof to the contrary, reports of the parallelism between the two works multiplied. By a fortunate circumstance, in 1884, President James H. Fairchild, of Oberlin College, and a literary friend of his--a Mr. Rice--while examining a heterogeneous collection of old papers which had been purchased by the gentleman last named, found the original manuscript of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Story."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manuscript Found, as Spaulding's story has come to be known, is occasionally pressed into service in the cause of anti-"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manuscript Story"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Articles of Faith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The House of the Lord,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon temples are rarely used as places of general gatherings. They are in one sense educational institutions, regular courses of lectures and instruction being maintained in some of them; but they are specifically for baptisms and ordinations, for sanctifying prayer, and for the most sacred ceremonies and rites of the Church, particularly in the vicarious work for the dead which is a characteristic of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons to arm themselves and meet the force of the outlaws with organized resistance. This advice was not pleasing to the Latter-day Saints, whose religion enjoined tolerance and peace; but they so far heeded it as to arm a small force; and when the outlaws next came upon them, the people were not entirely unprepared. A"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon rebellion was now proclaimed. The people had been goaded to desperation. The militia was ordered out, and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons were disarmed. The mob was unrestrained in its eagerness for revenge. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon situation and in denouncing the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons? Is it not notorious on the contrary that they were hunted like wild beasts from county to county before they made any resistance? Did they ever, as a body, refuse obedience to the laws, when called upon to do so, until driven to desperation by repeated threats and assaults by the mob? Did the state ever make one decent effort to defend them as fellow-citizens in their rights or to redress their wrongs? Let the conduct of its governors and attorneys and the fate of their final petitions answer! Have any who plundered and openly insulted the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nauvoo Legion, was authorized, and the establishment of a university was provided for; both these organizations were successfully effected. It was here that a memorial was prepared and sent to the national government, reciting the outrages of Missouri, and asking reparation. Joseph Smith himself, the head of the delegation, had a personal interview with President Van Buren, in which the grievances of the Latter-day Saints were presented. Van Buren replied in words that will not be forgotten,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants. History deals in surprises and paradoxes quite as startling as this. A man who established a religion in this age of free debate, who was and is today accepted by hundreds of thousands as a direct emissary from the Most High--such a rare human being is not to be disposed of by pelting his memory with unsavory epithets. * * * The most vital questions Americans are asking each other today, have to deal with this man and what he has left us. * * * Joseph Smith, claiming to be an inspired teacher, faced adversity such as few men have been called to meet, enjoyed a brief season of prosperity such as few men have ever attained, and finally * * * went cheerfully to a martyr's death. When he surrendered his person to Governor Ford, in order to prevent the shedding of blood, the Prophet had a presentiment of what was before him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, he is reported to have said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon people regarded it as a duty to make every proper effort to bring the perpetrators of the foul assassination of their leaders to justice; sixty names were presented to the local grand jury, and of the persons so designated, nine were indicted. After a farcical semblance of a trial, these were acquitted, and thus was notice, sanctioned by the constituted authority of the law, served upon all anti-"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon band, and this but angered the oppressors the more. The members of the Church, recognizing the inevitable long before predicted by their murdered prophet, that the march of the Church would be westward, redoubled their efforts to complete the grand temple upon which they had not ceased to work through all the storms of persecution. This structure, solemnly dedicated to their God, they entered, and there received their anointings and their blessings; then they abandoned it to the desecration and self-condemning outrages of their foes. For the mob's decree had gone forth, that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There in the steeple close by the"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, said these children of the forest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons to move on and leave the reservation which a kind government had provided for its red children. An order from President Polk, who had been appealed to by Colonel Kane, gave the people permission to remain for a short season. The government of Iowa had courteously assured them protection while passing through that territory. As soon as the people were well under way, a thorough organization was effected. Remembering the toilsome desert march from Egypt to Canaan, the people assumed the name,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Camp of Israel. The camp consisted of two main divisions, and each was sub-divided into companies of hundreds, fifties, and tens, with captains to direct. An officer with one hundred volunteers went ahead of the main body to select a route and prepare a road. At this time, there were over one thousand wagons of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have your battalion, said Brigham Young to Captain Allen, the muster officer,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon Battalion, declared,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon pioneers were threatened with the direst privations. In their slow march they had been passed by a number of well-equipped parties, some of them from Missouri bound for the Pacific; but most of these were overtaken on the easterly side of the river. Amongst the effects of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as a historian of the day has written,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Weak, worn, and weary as I am, said one of these heroines,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would rather push on another thousand miles than stay here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The very place,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon Battalion, working their way eastward, were most prominent. Some of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon settlers, becoming infected with the malady, hastened westward, but the counsel of the Church authorities prevailed to keep all but a few at home. These people had not left the country of their birth or adoption to seek gold; nor bright jewels of the mine; nor the wealth of seas; nor the spoils of war; they sought and believed they had found, a faith's pure shrine. But the gold-seekers hastening westward, and the successful miners returning eastward, halted at the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Utah was not the choice of the people as the name of their state; that word served but to recall the degraded tribes who had contested the settlement of the valleys. Deseret, a Book of Mormon name for the honey bee, was more appropriate. The petition of the people was denied in part, and, in 1850 was established the territorial form of government in Utah. Concerning the period of the provisional government, such men as Gunnison, Stansbury, and other federal officials on duty in the west, have recorded their praises of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon party adopted and flagrantly displayed the carpet-bag as the badge of their profession. But not all the officials sent to Utah from afar were of this type; some of them were honorable and upright men, and amongst this class the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Governor of Utah Territory."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon lines. The result of the conference was that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon leaders but reiterated their statement that the President's appointees would be given safe entry to the city, and be duly installed in their offices, provided they would enter without the army. This ultimatum was carried to the federal camp; and to the open chagrin of the commandant, Governor Cumming and his fellow appointees moved to Salt Lake City under"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons availed themselves of this license. At short intervals in the course of the night-passage through the canyon, the party was challenged, and the password demanded; bon-fires were blazing down in the gorges, and the impression was made that the mountains were full of armed men; whereas the sentries were members of the escort, who, preceding by short cuts the main party, continued to challenge and to pass. On their arrival, the gentlemen were met by the retiring officials, and were peaceably installed. The new governor called upon the clerk of the court, and ascertained the truth of the statement that the records were entirely safe. He promptly reported his conclusions to General Johnston that there was no further need for the army. It was decided, however, that the soldiers should be permitted to march through the city, and straightway the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so, said Brigham Young,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons in opposing the entrance of the army. The people asked what they had done that needed pardon; they had not robbed, they had not killed. But a critical analysis of these troublous events revealed at least one overt act--some"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
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