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21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Jack, he said to the other boy,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, lad, just take off your coat and shirt. Here is a bucket of water. Put your head in that, and give yourself a good sluice; and then come down and have a cup of tea, and a bit of biscuit, and you will find yourself all right again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, lad, lend a hand in tidying up on deck. There is nothing like work, for keeping off seasickness. Jack shall cook, for today."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be useless, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he pointed to the sea boots, up to the thigh, which all fishermen wear,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry, for your sake, that the state of the weather will prevent our communicating with any ship we may meet. But I promise you that, if the gale breaks before we are fairly out from the channel, I will heave to and put you on board a homeward-bound ship."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look you, my lad. I fear that you will have to make the voyage with me, for we shall not touch at any port, until we arrive at our destination. If you like, I will ship you as a hand on board, as from the day of the collision. A hand, more or less, will make no difference to the owners; and the money will be useful to you, when you leave the ship. Of course, you can return in her, if you think fit; but it is likely enough that, when we reach Java, we may be sent up to China for a homeward cargo--in which case I will procure you a passage in the first ship sailing for your home."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that for? Will said, wonderingly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I egzpect captain haz looked at glass, Hans said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like this, Hans, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is something awful about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have big ztorm, Hans replied,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helm, hard up. Out axes, and cut away the wreck, at once!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a near squeak,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is zqueak?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean a close shave,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A zhave! he repeated;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Will said, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean a narrow escape of being capsized."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Breakers ahead!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out to the end of the bowsprit,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My chest is among those which have been washed up, and there are a few tools in it. I always had a fancy for carpentry; and it's hard if, in a fortnight, we cannot make some sort of craft which will carry us. Indeed, if we content ourselves with a strong framework, covered with canvas, we may be ready in four or five days."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scatter, the mate said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Together, they are sure to overtake us; singly, we may escape."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us keep together, Hans,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us follow this up, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They can track us, through the forest; but the water will set them off our scent."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us get through those bushes, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be careful, Hans, not to break a twig, as you go. We can climb that tree. There are plants, with stems like cords, winding round it. The top is so thick and bushy that I don't think they can see us, there."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! Will said, wiping away the perspiration which streamed from his face,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you zay, Will? Zhall we get down and go furder into wood, or zhall we wait here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think, anyhow, we had better wait till tomorrow night, Will answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They may search again, tomorrow, and might come upon our tracks. If they don't find us, they may suppose that they have caught us all, or that we have escaped right into the interior. If they find no traces of us they will, likely enough, set sail before night."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall we do next, Hans?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps some of the others may have got away, and may join us here, today or tomorrow. If any are alive, they would be certain to come back here, when they thought the Malays had left."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyhow, the first thing to do, Will went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us gather up all the pieces, carefully. There are a good lot, altogether; and we may want them, badly, before we have done."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What had we better do, if no one comes back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Build anoder boat,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how are we to do that, Hans? We might make the framework, but we have no canvas to cover it with. Besides, even if we had, I have no idea of the direction of Singapore, and I doubt if we could find our way back to Java."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose we could live in the forest for some time, Will said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I read a book called Robinson Crusoe, and a sailor there lived on a desert island for years; but then he had a gun, and all sorts of things. There are plenty of birds but, even if we could make bows and arrows, I suppose we should be months before we could shoot straight enough to hit them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on earth are we to do, when the fruit and biscuits are all finished?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you say, Hans?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't zay noding, Hans answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't have no obinion, at all. If you dink zat is ze best plan, let us do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no hurry, Hans, Will said, laughing;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, we shall get there before the sun sets. I don't think it can be more than a mile and a half away."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the time we are safe, Will said;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe the scoundrels are going to try to starve us out, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us speak to the chief, and ask how much provisions they have got."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they really intend to starve us out, Hans, we are done for. No doubt they reckon on our water falling short. They would know that it was not likely that there would be a supply here."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The worst of all this is, Will said to Hans,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are more than a match for her, I am afraid, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you say, Hans, shall we go on, or not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had better go, Will went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can see whether they mean to fight, or not."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throw us a rope!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! Where do you spring from?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were shipwrecked here, ten months ago, Will said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you see, and he pointed to the prahus,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, sir, there is a passage through the reef, there; with plenty of water and width enough for your ship. I can take her through. There is no other passage, for some distance. If you take her inside, and lay her across the channel, the prahus can only attack on one side; and you can place all your guns and strength there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ease off the sheets, men."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, Tom, the captain said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you, Tom, work away at the two behind."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid you are not out of danger, yet, Will said, as the captain shook him by the hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt that boat has gone off with the news and, before morning, you will have half a dozen fresh enemies coming down, inside the reef, to attack you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we had but a breath of wind, we might do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fear you will have none before morning; then it generally blows fresh, for two or three hours. I don't know how far it is to the village which is the headquarters of the pirates. As far as I could make out, from the Malays with whom we have been living, it is about six hours' walking; but the boats will row twice as fast as a man would walk through the forest. In that case you may be attacked at two or three o'clock in the morning, and you won't get the breeze till after sunrise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are there any other channels through the reef?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know, Will replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have never explored it very far, either way; but as I should think, from the action of the Malays, that they did not know of this, they might not know of any other, did it exist."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, the captain said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will warp the brig out through the channel again; and anchor her, stem and stern, across it outside. They will find it as hard to attack us, there, as they did before. Then, when the breeze comes, we will slip our cable and run for it. She is a fast sailer; and can, I think, get away from the pirates, even with their sails and oars. Besides, by shifting the long gun and two of the others to her stern, we can give it them so hot that, even if they are the fastest, we may sicken them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not know, sir, Will said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They would be likely to hang about you, until the breeze drops; and then to attack you on all sides at once. If we could but keep them from coming through the channel, in pursuit, we should be safe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! But how on earth are we to do that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you plenty of powder on board the ship, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plenty--we use it for barter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me-- Will went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think, Tom? Could it be managed?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We could sling three or four 18-pounder shots under the bottom of the cask, to make it sink upright. Just before we slip our cables, we might lower it down with the boats; lighting the fuse the last thing, and sticking in the cork. If we don't put too much saltpetre, it might burn for some minutes before it reached the powder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's worth trying, at any rate, the captain said;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have sent on ahead, to find if we were lying in the same berth, the captain said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect they will be puzzled when they hear that we are outside, and that the entrance is guarded. I should not be surprised if they did not attack before morning. They had such a lesson, yesterday, that I don't think they will try to force the channel in our teeth again; but will play the waiting game, sure that they will secure us, sooner or later."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, you take charge of the sinking."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will be there in less than ten minutes from the moment I lowered the cask,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much, the captain said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope nothing has gone wrong,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not afraid of that; though we may be wrong, a minute or two, as to the length of the fuse."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no particular plan, Will said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am in no hurry to return to England, having no relatives there. After being so long absent--for it is now a year since I sailed from Yarmouth--I should not care to return and take up my apprenticeship as a fisherman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you ship regularly on board the Sea Belle?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should have taken you for at least two years older, the captain said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have done a good lot of hard work, in the last two years, Will said;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has your voyage been a pleasant one, captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pleasant enough, sir, on the whole; but we were attacked by the Malay pirates, and I should certainly not be here to tell the tale, at present, had it not been for the quickness and shrewdness of a lad, who had been shipwrecked on the coast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is that, Mayhew? Tell us all about it."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where did the boy spring from? How on earth came he to be there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What style and type is he, captain? A rough sort of chap?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a workhouse! Major Harrison repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I suppose his parents were farm laborers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, the captain answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All this is very interesting, Captain Edwards said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like much to see the boy. Will you come and dine with us this evening on board the Euphrates--Mr. Reynolds, here, is coming--and have the boy sent on board--say, at nine o'clock--when we can have him in, and have a chat with him?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Will, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to get a suit of shore-going clothes. You can get your sea outfit tomorrow, at your leisure; but I want you to show up well at the mess, this evening, and a suit of good clothes will always be useful to you."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By jingo, Will, the first mate said, as he entered the cabin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know who your parents were, but I would bet a month's pay that the old tramp you were telling us of had nothing to do with it; for you look every inch a gentleman, from head to foot."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, gentlemen, he said, after a minute or two, seeing that the lad did not touch the wine that was poured out for him,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do, now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not made up my mind, sir, the lad said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect that I shall ship in some vessel sailing for England, shortly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to have a few minutes' private chat with you,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not usual, certainly, for a regiment to take recruits in India; but I don't suppose that there can be any objection to it."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you quite agreed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite, sir, Will said, joyously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on board, then, tomorrow at eight o'clock, and ask for Sergeant Ringwood."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say nothing about the workhouse, and as little as possible of anything which happened before you were wrecked on the island, in the barrack room."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was on his way to China, and was wrecked among the Malays, and has gone through a good deal. Finding himself here with nothing to do, and with a prospect of active service on the frontier, he has decided to enlist and, as he is a gallant young fellow, I do not wish to balk his fancy."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are rather slight yet, but you will fill out, in time."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, young 'un, one said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is William Gale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't quite sure that you were an Englishman. You are pretty nigh as dark as them copper-colored niggers here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So would you be, Will laughed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell us all about it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a bit of luck, mates, our having someone who can tell us a tale, when we have got such a long journey before us."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, young 'un, a corporal said to him, that evening,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect, William answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think you have lost weight at all, the corporal said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am all right, Will said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where can we be going? William Gale asked the soldier next to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going right away from the pass, instead of towards it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So we are! the soldier replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am blest if I know what we are up to, and it's so precious dark that I can scarcely see the file before me. I hope we ain't going to fight in the dark, anyhow. What would be the good of being a marksman, when you cannot see the end of your own rifle, let alone the man you are firing at?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! We can't be going to attack in the dark, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect we have got a long march before us; and are going to work round, somehow, and take them in rear."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confound it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silence in the ranks, there!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Khost."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is everything quiet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, corporal. Two or three times I have thought that I heard noises, and twice I have challenged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What sort of noise?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once it seemed to be a crack, like a dried stick when some one treads on it. The other time it was as if a stone had been dislodged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will wait with you, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two pairs of ears are better than one."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After doing so, fall back on the picket, at once. If the enemy are in force, hold the hut to the last. In ten minutes you will have help from the village, behind."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "English officers are coming, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I thought it was peace, Will exclaimed, delighted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You told me peace had been signed, at Gundamuk, two months ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is peace, the boy said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The officers are coming in friendship, to be here with the Ameer."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my lad, Major Cavagnari said, kindly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear you have had a bad time of it. The Ameer tells me that you were taken prisoner near Ali-Kheyl, that you were badly wounded, and that after the snow melted you were brought down here. He says he gave orders that everything should be done for you, but that you have been very ill, ever since."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been treated very kindly, sir, Will said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will ask the Ameer to assign you quarters in the same house with us. We will soon bring you round, and make you strong and well again."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter, Yossouf?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trouble is coming, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Heratee men are stirring up the people, and the Budmashes are threatening that they will kill the English."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the Ameer has promised his protection, Will said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has sworn a solemn oath to stand by them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yakoob Khan is weak, the boy said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was a great warrior, once; but he has been in prison for many years and he is no longer firm and strong. Some of the men round him are bad advisers. Yakoob Khan is no better than a reed to lean upon."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they do, they can but kill the three or four of us here, and our deaths will be revenged."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things are very bad, he said, over and over again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be better for you all to go away. Why does your officer stop here, to be killed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is his duty to stay at his post, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has been sent here by the commander-in-chief. He is like a soldier on outpost duty. He cannot desert his post, because he sees danger approaching; but I wish, with all my heart, that an order would come for his recall; not only because of the danger, but because I am longing to be back again with my regiment and, although I am strong enough to ride down to the Punjaub, now, I cannot go except with Sir Lewis and his escort. Although it is peace, a single Englishman could not travel down to Jellalabad, through the passes."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you got there, Yossouf?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have brought the uniform of an Afghan soldier, the boy replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I cannot do that, Yossouf, Will said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is very good of you to try and aid me to escape; but I am a soldier, and must share the fortunes of my officers, whatever they may be. If they fight, I shall fight. If they are killed, I must be killed, too. I cannot run away and hide myself, when the danger comes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then Yossouf will die, too, he said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will not leave his white friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Yossouf, Will said, warmly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If, he said presently,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Will said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well. he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, Yossouf, Will said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Heratees are coming, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gates of the fort have been left open. The Cabul men are all in their barracks. They are pouring in at the gates. Do you not hear them?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, my lads, Major Cavagnari said cheerfully to his men;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, lads! Major Cavagnari exclaimed,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep quiet, master! Yossouf's voice said, in his ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is your only chance of safety."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, he said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which way now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it will be safest to go into the city. We might lie hid for a few days in some deserted hut but, sooner or later, our presence there would excite comment. It will be best, I think, to go into the city. In the quarters of the Parsee merchants there are assuredly some who would give you shelter. Domajee--who was the contractor for the supply of the mission--would, I should think, be best to go to. There is little danger, for none will suspect your presence there. His servants are all Hindoos."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is the best place, Yossouf. I have been down several times to Domajee, and he is certainly devoted to the English. We can but try him."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I come on urgent business with Domajee, Yossouf replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open quickly, there are but two of us here."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Follow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has the mission been captured?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Will replied,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is blood on the couch, the trader said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is wounded, and is suffering from its loss. See! The sleeve of his coat is soaked with blood, but I see no mark on the cloth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Yossouf replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go downstairs, the trader said;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are safe, and among friends, the Parsee said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drink a little more of the cordial, and then go off quietly to sleep. You need have no fear of being discovered, and your friends will be here, ere long."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your regiment, he said to Will,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say nothing to your fellow sergeants of what I have told you. It is possible--although not probable--that my recommendation may not be acted upon and, at any rate, some months must elapse before an answer can be received."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ride back, Sergeant Gale, the general said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The enemy are pressing the cavalry back, sir, he said as, with difficulty, he pulled up his horse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The general desires you to use the greatest possible speed, as every moment is precious."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to congratulate you, sir. You are now an officer; and will, I am quite sure, do every credit to my recommendation."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the by, poor young Thompson, who died yesterday, was about your size; and you had better bid a lump sum for the whole of his kit. I shall be happy to be your banker for that, and the needful sum for your traveling expenses. When you join your regiment you will, of course, be able to draw your pay, from the date on which you were gazetted."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Gale, Captain Edwards said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The enemy are apparently in considerable force. The defile opens here. They are disposed among rocks and boulders, on either side."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must try and clear them out. We cannot stop here all night. It is freezing very sharp, now; and the cold will be intense, in an hour or two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will take thirty men, Captain Edwards said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, he exclaimed, as a sound of firing was heard in the rear,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the fellows only make a determined rush at us, Captain Edwards said to Will,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we may hold out till morning but, by that time, news that we are blockaded here will spread throughout the hills, and we may have 10,000 of them down on us. I think, if you will give me leave, the best plan will be for me to try and make my way down to Jugdulluk, to bring up help from there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would never get through, Captain Edwards advised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a brave offer, Gale, but could not be done."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If--as is likely enough--we stumble against some of them, we will say we are wounded, and are making our way to the rear. They cannot see us in the dark, and my Afghan will pass muster; and Yossouf will certainly not be suspected. If I am discovered and killed, he will go forward and deliver the message."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are both wounded, by the Kaffirs, Yossouf answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good! the Afghan replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How goes it in front?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their fire is lessening, Yossouf said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must have killed many. We shall finish with them in the morning, if not before."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have made my way through to ask you if you can despatch a force to their rescue. Were the tribesmen attacked in their rear, now, they might be scattered easily enough; but they are assembling very fast and, in the morning, it will be a difficult matter to reach them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have fancied, the officer said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall, of course, he concluded,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am indeed glad to see you, the latter said, rising and shaking him heartily by the hand;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am indeed obliged to you, colonel, for your kindness, Will said;"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see by the Gazette you are appointed to the 66th, and we were expecting to see you on your way down. Had you any difficulty in getting through the passes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The convoy was attacked, sir, by the tribesmen, when near Jugdulluk; but the garrison came out to our rescue, and we got through safely. But we had thirty men killed or wounded."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been grumbling horribly at our bad luck. We thought, at the time, we were fortunate at being sent back to India, when peace was signed, instead of being kept in the Khurum valley. But the consequence has been that we have been out of it all. However, we must look upon you as our representative."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Lieutenant Gale here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A note from the general, the orderly said and, handing it to him,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As Lieutenant Gale was promoted from your regiment, I think it is likely that he has found his way to you. I have written to ask him to dinner; please spare him to me. I hope you will do me the pleasure of accompanying him. He has performed a most gallant action; and I have just had the pleasure of writing a dispatch, recommending him for the V.C."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, he said, turning to Will,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was simple enough and, in fact, there was less danger than in remaining with the convoy, to be popped at by the Afghans. The night was very dark and, down in the bottom, one could hardly see one's hand. The Afghans had been cleared pretty well off the road, by our fire; so there was no difficulty, whatever, in making our way down. We were, in fact, only questioned once; and my boy's statement, that we were wounded and were going to the rear, was accepted at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fact that you succeeded, the colonel said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't belong to you now, sir, but, Will said, earnestly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall always feel, whatever regiment I may be with, that the Norfolk Rangers are my corps. It is the kindness which was shown me, here, which has put me in the way of rising; and I shall never forget it."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No good, whatever!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you ask my advice I should not, at your time of life, dream of setting to to learn the dead languages, or to study mathematics. Read the histories of Rome and Greece, and study that of your own country. Read books of travel and the biographies of great men, and keep yourself well posted--as you are doing--in current public events. You will then find yourself able to take part, on equal terms, in any conversation which may be going on. You will, indeed, be considered by strangers an exceptionally well-informed young fellow; and you may pass through life without any person having a suspicion that Latin, Greek, and mathematics--the cardinal points of an ordinary education--are wholly unknown to you."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I fear you are severely wounded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no! Will answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is only a flesh wound, from my shoulder to my elbow. Luckily, my sword partly caught the blow. I was aiming at the other fellow, and had not time to parry fairly. I shall be none the worse for it, in a week's time. My wound is less severe than yours, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are both bleeding pretty freely, the colonel said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My quarters are close at hand and, as the principal medical officer lives in the same house, you cannot do better than come in with me."
}
]
|
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