Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is what it comes to--that at eleven o'clock Sir Ralph said Mr. Grell was with him. You say that you had refused an offer of marriage from Sir Ralph, and think that he murdered Mr. Grell from jealousy. I may say that, though we know Sir Ralph was at his club for dinner and at eleven o'clock, we can find neither servants nor members who can say for certain that he was there at the time the murder was committed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it was he! she exclaimed eagerly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bob had not another enemy in the world. You will arrest him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, Foyle retorted, and noted that her face fell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All this is only suspicion. We must have proof to satisfy a jury before we can do anything with a man in Sir Ralph's position. And now, if you don't mind, I should like to put a few other questions to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pleasant girl, he commented." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seems wonderfully anxious to have Fairfield hanged. I suppose she was really infatuated with Grell. You never know how women are going to take things. I wonder if I can get a set of his finger-prints. That ought to settle the matter one way or the other, so far as he is concerned. But it won't clear up what Goldenburg was doing in Grell's place. I'll have to fix that somehow." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Millionaire Murdered on Wedding Eve. Strange Mystery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was Sir Ralph Fairfield in?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to apologise for my rudeness at Grosvenor Gardens, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was worried, and you were, of course, upset. Now we are both more calm, I come to ask you if you would like to add anything to what you said. Of course, you'll be called to give evidence at the inquest, and it would make it easier for you as well as for us if we knew what you were going to say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have told you all you will learn from me, he said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you've seen Lady Eileen Meredith." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. The lie was prompt, but the superintendent salved his conscience with the thought that it was a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know that she can tell us anything of value." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The terror of the law" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you're very busy, Mr. Foyle. I don't want to keep you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't force my company on you, Sir Ralph. If you will just dictate to me a description of the string of pearls that Grell showed you, I will go. Can you let me have a pen and some paper?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you sign that, please? No, here." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know how I came to do that. I am very sorry. It's smudged the paper a bit, but that won't matter. It's still readable. Good-bye, Sir Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is Foyle speaking, he said when at last he had got the man he asked for." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there anything fresh for me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing important, sir, except that Blake has found a curiosity dealer who says that the knife is one that must have come from South America. It is, he says, an unusual sort of Mexican dagger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh. Is the man who says that to be relied on? He isn't just guessing? We can do all the guessing we want ourselves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir, we think he's all right. It's Marfield--one of the biggest men in the trade. By the way, sir, there's a lot of newspaper men been asking for you since you left. They want to know about Goldenburg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So do I, retorted the other." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better be strictly truthful with 'em, Mainland. Tell 'em you know no more than is on the reward bill. They won't believe you, anyway. You can say I've gone home to bed, and that there will be nothing more doing this evening. Good-bye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Mexican dagger, he muttered to himself as he left the telephone-box." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if I were a story-book detective I should assume that the murderer was either a South American or had travelled in South America. It looked the kind of thing a woman might carry in her garter. And a veiled woman called on him that night --he made a wry face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Foyle, my lad, you're assuming things. That way madness lies. The dagger might have been bought anywhere as a curiosity, and the veiled woman may have been a purely innocent caller." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Eden? he cried effusively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who'd have thought of seeing you here! Business good? Still picking flowers?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's Mr. Foyle! he exclaimed heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How are you? We were just going. Let me introduce Mr. Maxwell." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the colonies, I suppose, Mr. Maxwell? I suppose Eden has told you he's just come over. Eden surveyed the detective with wide-open, innocent blue eyes in which there dwelt hurt reproach." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate to separate you, but I've got important business with him. Perhaps you'll meet another time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you'll excuse me now, old man, chimed in Eden blandly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call for me at the Palatial at eleven to-morrow, and we'll make a day of it." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all right, Mr. Foyle, he protested eagerly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is _all right_. I haven't touched him for a sou." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a joker, Jimmy, he smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't get uneasy. I'm not going to carry you inside. Only you'll have to leave the Palatial to-night, Jimmy--to-night, do you understand? And if Maxwell turns up with a complaint against you there'll be pretty bad trouble. You'll be put out of temptation for good and all. There's such a thing as preventive detention in this country now, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Truth, Mr. Foyle, I haven't done a thing, he declared earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm trying the straight game now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And staying at the Palatial, he smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy! I believe you, of course." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When did you last see Goldenburg? he demanded curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No nonsense, mind, Jimmy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So that's the lay, is it? he said with relief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw the bills out for him, and I don't mind helping you if I can, Mr. Foyle. He was never what you'd call a proper pal, and I don't bear any malice, though you've just done me out of a cool five hundred. That mug who's just gone --he jerked his head towards the door--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cough it up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was in Victoria Station, talking to a foreign-looking chap, on Wednesday night. A look of astonishment crossed his face while he spoke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By the living jingo, there's the very man he was talking to coming in now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right, Jimmy. I'll talk to you later. Go to the Yard and wait till I come," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are the man who used to be Mr. Grell's valet, he said quietly in French." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a police officer, and you must come with me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no use making a scene, my man, he said, still speaking in French, his voice stern, but pitched in a low key." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are Ivan something-or-other, and you know of the murder of your master. So come along." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a mistake, protested the other volubly in the same language. His words slurred into each other in his excitement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not the man you take me for. I am Pierre Bazarre, a jeweller of Paris, and I have my credentials. I will not submit to this abominable outrage. I know nothing of M. Grell; you shall not arrest me----" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not arresting you, he said, ignoring the protestations of the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to detain you till you give a satisfactory explanation of your reason for leaving Mr. Grell's house on the night of the murder." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Street," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sorry if I hurt you, he apologised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be all right in a minute. It has only upset your wind a little. That will pass off." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cigar? I've no doubt you'll be able to make things all right when we get to the station. There's nothing to worry about. You will just have a little talk with me, and as soon as one or two points are cleared up you'll be able to go." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "As you like, he said imperturbably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're good cigars. I have them sent over to me by a friend direct from Havana." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Mr. Norman, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This gentleman wants to tell me something about the Grell case. Just give him a chair, will you, and send in a shorthand writer who understands French to take a statement." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall make no statement, broke in the Russian angrily, speaking in French, but with a readiness that showed he was able to follow English." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all a mistake--a mistake for which you will pay heavily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! that's just what I wish to get at. There seems to be a little confusion. Perhaps I have been over-zealous, but the fact is, Monsieur--er--Bazarre, you are wearing a false moustache, and that rather aroused my suspicions--see?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only wanted to feel sure that I was right. Now, monsieur, I want to make it clear that I have no right to ask you anything. If you wish to say anything, it will be taken down, and what action I take depends on what you say." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to help you if I can. I don't want to have to charge you with the murder of Mr. Grell." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Handcuffs," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You admit you are Ivan, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I am Ivan, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make what you can of that, but you cannot have me hanged for the murder of Mr. Grell--_and you know why_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because Mr. Grell is not dead, retorted the detective smoothly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know that." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What I want now, he went on slowly," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "These pearls were bought at Streeters' by Mr. Grell as a wedding present to Lady Eileen Meredith, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do they come in your possession?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They were given to me by Mr. Grell," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "May as well have his finger-prints," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take those handcuffs off. You may go, Mr. Abramovitch." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop everything, he said in a curt whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take a couple of men and don't let that man out of your sight for an instant. I'll have you relieved from the Yard in an hour's time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't you going to charge him, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not likely," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we've taken every human precaution to preserve secrecy, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one who knows that it is not Grell's body in the house has been pledged to hold his tongue. I have managed to get the inquest put back for three days, so that there will be no evidence of identification till then. That gives us a chance. And I've made out a confidential report to be sent to the Foreign Office, so that Grell's Government shan't get restive. Here are the latest reports, sir." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you let this man Ivan go? Do you think that wise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm fishing, answered Foyle enigmatically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't have better bait than Ivan. There are three men sticking to him like limpets now, and a couple are keeping an eye on Sir Ralph Fairfield. I think that will be all right. Do you remember the Mighton Grange case? We knew there had been a murder, but couldn't do anything till we found the body. Dutful, the murderer, would have slid off to some place where there's no extradition, but for the fact that I had him arrested on a charge of being in the unlawful possession of a pickaxe handle. This affair is the converse of that. We can't afford to have Ivan under lock and key." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe I see, he exclaimed after a pause." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ivan must have been something more than a valet. He's a superior type of man, and the conclusion to be drawn if he knows that Grell is alive----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Precisely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Any result from the offer of a reward for Goldenburg?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. He has been seen by different people within an hour or two of each other in Glasgow, Southampton, Gloucester, Cherbourg, Plymouth, and Cardiff. Our information on that point is not precisely helpful. Of course, we've got the local police making inquiries in each case, but I don't anticipate they will find out much. Still, it will keep 'em amused." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Velvet-fingered Ned had disappeared from Islington and reappeared in Brixton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tony Smith was due out of prison. Mike O'Brien had patched up the peace with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yid" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The man Ivan, whose description was circulated, is not to be touched now. Tell your men to let him alone if they come across him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very good, sir," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't 'urt you, did it? stormed the labourer aggressively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then in a lower tone:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm Foyle. I got your telephone message. Anything moving now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you don't go away I shall call a constable. Green had been quick to see his cue and spoke loudly. He went on rapidly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He hasn't stirred out. A post-office messenger has just gone in with a letter for him. I said I was expecting one, and got a glimpse at it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, old pal. Don't get excited. You go home and tell the missus all about it," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grave Street, Whitechapel, he murmured to himself, as the cab slipped away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ivan has got to work." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you would learn the truth about the murder in Grosvenor Gardens, come immediately to No. -- Grave Street." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get even for that," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop thief! Hold him!" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curse it! This comes of acting on impulse. Why couldn't I have waited! I had the whole thing in my hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am alive. I must see you. Follow the man who gives you this note.--R. G." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Mr. Green. What's wrong?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley missing! That's nonsense. He was put on to relieve Norman in shadowing Ivan Abramovitch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's missing, repeated the other doggedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ivan went into a shop with an entrance in two streets, and the man who was assisting Waverley slipped round to the other side. He waited there an hour, and then went to look for Waverley." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Green, I guess you've been working too hard lately. You ought to apply for a fortnight's leave. Can't you see, Ivan came out and that Waverley never had time to give the tip to his man, but followed him straight away? There ought to have been three men on the job." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A third was not available when Waverley left, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is why I say Waverley is missing. It came by messenger five minutes ago, addressed to you. As senior officer I opened it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "DEAR MR. FOYLE,--You had better call your men off. We have got one of them safe, and hold him as a hostage for our own safety. If your people go on trying to make things unpleasant for us, things will get unpleasant for him. This is not melodrama, but brutal fact." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do they expect us to back down? asked the superintendent harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Waverley has been fool enough to get himself in a fix, he must take his chance if we can't get him out. Let's have a look at this paper." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've given us something that may help us, after all, Green, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here; these two middle ones are the prints on the dagger. Now let's see if we can learn anything from the typing." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you make of it, Green?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remington machine, latest pattern, answered the other briefly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The letter 'b' slightly battered, and the 'o' out of alignment. Used by a beginner. There is double spacing between some of the lines and single in others. A capital 'W' has been superimposed on a small one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's so, agreed his superior thoughtfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might see if the Remington people can give us any help with that. If possible, get a list of all the people who have bought machines during this last six weeks. It's a long shot, but long shots sometimes come off. And if you come into my room I'll give you a pistol. It'll be as well for you to carry one while you're on this case. I was shot at myself, to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, sir, I think I'll do without one, said the other quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My two fists are good enough for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you like," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "October 14, he read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. John Smith, c/o Israels, 404A Grave Street, Whitechapel. He looked up into the stolid face of Green." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That seems like it, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and I will take a little trip this evening, Green. And I think you'd better have a pistol, after all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has been rendered completely prostrate by the shock," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here I will stay until Bob's murderer is punished," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a lot of persons from the newspapers waiting out in the streets, Lady Eileen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They might annoy you. They stop every one who goes in or out." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use, gentlemen, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not be interviewed. She looked very dainty and pathetic as she spread out her hands in a helpless little gesture." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I not appeal to your chivalry? You are besieging a house of mourning. And, please--please, I know what is in your minds--do not follow me." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please do sit down, he pleaded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want to know how the case is progressing. I think we shall have some news for you by to-morrow. I hope it will be good." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are about to make an arrest?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't say that. It depends on circumstances," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will swear that the man Fairfield killed him, she cried passionately." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will let him get away--you and your red tape." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen to me, Lady Eileen, he said earnestly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Ralph Fairfield did not kill Mr. Grell. Of that I have proof. Will you not trust us and wait a little? You are doing Sir Ralph a great injustice by your suspicions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You talk to me as though I were a schoolgirl, she retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't throw dust in my eyes, Mr. Foyle. He has bought you. You are going to let him go. I know! I know! But he shall not escape." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will regret this when you are calmer," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me pass, please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Sir Ralph Fairfield--to wring a confession from him, if you must know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me pass, please." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will let you pass after you have given me the pistol you are carrying in your muff," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can never tell what a woman will do, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, I think I have saved Ralph Fairfield's life to-day." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's an ugly job for us, sir, there's no disguising that. Naturally, they count on us keeping our mouths shut about Waverley. It's lucky he's not a married man. If the story of the way he was bagged becomes public property we shall be a laughing-stock, even if we get him out of his trouble. And if we don't, the scandal will be something worse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. It's bad--bad, agreed the Assistant Commissioner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Press must not hear of this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trust me, said Foyle grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Press won't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like this affair of Lady Eileen Meredith, went on Sir Hilary." }, { "from": "human", "value": "After all, she has a good right to know the truth. Wouldn't it be better to let her know that Grell is alive?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate it as much as you do, Sir Hilary. I can't take any chances, though. Grell knows we know he is alive. When he finds that this girl has not been told he may try to communicate with her, and then we may be able to lay hands on him and Ivan, and so clear up the mystery. There's another thing. As far as our inquiries through his solicitors and the bank go, he couldn't have had much ready cash on him. He'll try to get some sooner or later--probably through his friends. He's already tried to approach Fairfield." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, agreed the other in the tone of a man not quite convinced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, when are you going down to Grave Street again? You'll want at least a dozen men." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There won't be any trouble at Grave Street, answered Foyle with a smile;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But only two of you! Grave Street isn't exactly a nice place. If there is trouble----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll risk that, sir," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Hilary wanted me to take a dozen men, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him the two of us would be plenty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite enough, if we're to do anything, agreed Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't be out of it for a thousand. Poor old Waverley and I have put in a lot of time together. I guess I owe him my life, if it comes to that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was in the old garrotting days, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley and I were coming down the Tottenham Court Road a bit after midnight--just off Seven Dials. There were half-a-dozen men hanging about a corner, and one of them tiptoed after us with a pitch plaster--you'll remember they used to do the stuff up in sacking and pull it over your mouth from behind. I never noticed anything, but Waverley did. The man was just about to throw the thing over me when Waverley wheeled round and hit him clean across the face with a light cane he was carrying. The chap was knocked in the gutter and his pals came at us with a rush. A hansom driver shouted to us to leave the man in the roadway to him, and hanged if he didn't drive clean over him with the near-side wheel. That gave us our chance. We hopped into the cab and got away without staying to see if any one was hurt. But if Waverley hadn't hit out when he did I'd have been a goner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had a funny thing happen to me once in the Tottenham Court Road, said Foyle reminiscently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was an inspector then and big Bill Sladen was working with me--he had a beautiful tenor voice, you will remember. We were after a couple of confidence men and had a man we were towing about to identify them. Well, we got 'em down to a saloon bar near the Oxford Street end, but I daren't go in because they knew me. It was a bitter cold night, with a cold wind and snow and sleet. So I stayed on the opposite side of the road and induced Bill to go over and sing 'I am but a Poor Blind Boy,' in the hope that our birds would call him in and give him a drink. He hadn't been at it five minutes before a fiery, red-headed little potman had knocked him head over heels in the gutter and told him to go away. Bill could have broken the chap in two with his little finger, but he daren't do anything. He came over to me and I sent him back again. This time he did get invited inside. And there he stayed for a full hour, while the witness and I stood shivering and wet and miserable in the snow. We could hear him laughing and singing with the best of 'em. They wouldn't let him come away. It was not until I took all risks and marched in with the witness and arrested them that they tumbled to the fact that he wasn't a real street singer. He glanced at his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better go and have a rest, Green. Meet me here at half-past twelve. We'll take a taxi to Aldgate and walk up from there. And, by the way, here's a pistol. I needn't tell you not to use it unless you've got to." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Luckily I swore out a search warrant," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not a word, or it will be the worse for you. Let's have a light, Green." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are police officers. How many people are there in this house? demanded Foyle sternly, in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may as well answer in English. Quietly, now." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know why you have come, he answered, forming each word precisely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have done nothing wrong. I am an honest newsagent. There is only my wife, daughter, son, lodger in house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are a receiver of stolen goods, answered Foyle, something, it must be confessed, at a venture." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't trouble to deny it, Mr. Israels. We're not after you this time--not if you treat us fairly. What about this lodger of yours? Have you bought him a typewriter lately?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes--yes. I help you all I can," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I bought a typewriter--yes, went on Israels." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think he was honest. Didn't seem as though police after him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which room is he in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Next landing. Door on left," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's that girl? said the detective curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The one who gave the alarm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter? She thought you were burglars. She didn't know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The girl gave us away, exclaimed Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, you, where is she gone? He shook the woman roughly by the shoulder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go to the bottom of the stairs, Green, and see that no one slips in or out. Take that chap outside down with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My daughter? exclaimed the woman helplessly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has gone to stay with her aunt. We are respectable people. You frightened her. We don't like the police coming here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Highly respectable, repeated Foyle under his breath. Aloud he said menacingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall soon know whether you are respectable. Where does the girl's aunt live?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-two Shadwell Lane," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see, said the superintendent quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fact is, of course, that she is not your daughter, and that she has not gone to her aunt's. You are in an awkward corner, my man, he went on, changing his tone and moving a step nearer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better tell us the truth. Your wife has let me know something." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell all the truth, he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've done no wrong. You can't hurt me. She came here a day or two ago and paid five pounds for a week's lodging. I was to tell any one who inquired that she was my daughter. She slept with my wife. What harm was there? I am poor. Five pounds isn't picked up like that every day. The man came afterwards. He said he was a journalist and asked me to buy him a typewriting machine. I asked no questions. Why should I?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He must have been sleeping in his clothes, grumbled Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He hadn't time to dress. There's the typewriter the note was written on." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This looks queer," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the same typewriter. There can be no question of that, said Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can see that the 'b' is knocked about and the 'o' is out of line." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all right, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wasn't thinking of that. It looks to me as if there's some sympathetic writing on this." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cipher!" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll let Jones have a go at that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything else now?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We didn't find anything bearing on Waverley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley? repeated Foyle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I had almost forgotten him." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is all right," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you've got back, said the superintendent in a non-committal tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I hope that arm of yours is not badly hurt. What has been the trouble?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tried to bluff a bit, but he just laughed. And then I stayed with him in the same room up to within an hour or two ago, when some one came into the house and he was summoned outside the door. They had an excited pow-wow, and I could hear a woman talking. Finally, the man came back and told me they'd determined to let me go. He put a handkerchief over my eyes, and after a while I was taken down into what I thought was a taxicab. I was turned out a quarter of an hour ago at the Blackfriars end of the Embankment." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was the number of the cab?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It had no police number. Its index mark was A.A. 4796." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Metropolitan Police. Pocket Directory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Southampton registration, said the superintendent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Johns, get through on the 'phone to the Southampton police, and ask 'em to trace the owner of this car the moment the county council offices open." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The number's probably a false one--a board slipped over the real number, as they did in the Dalston case when some American toughs went through that jeweller a month or two back. We might as well look into it, though. These people are wily customers, or they wouldn't have kept you from seeing the rest of the gang. They tried to frighten us by threatening to make away with you. I think it likely that they found it rather a nuisance to look after you--especially when Green and I tumbled on to some of their people an hour ago. You haven't exactly covered yourself with glory, Waverley, but under the circumstances I shall take no disciplinary action. Now go and write out a full report, and then go home. The police surgeon will recommend what leave of absence you want to get over the stab in the arm. Good night--or rather, good morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir. Good morning, sir." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Car No. A.A. 4796 belongs to Mr. J. Price, The Grange, Lyndhurst. Mr. Price is an old resident in the neighbourhood and a man of means. The car is a six-cylinder Napier." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As I thought, commented Heldon Foyle thoughtfully, tearing the paper into little bits and dropping them into the waste-paper basket." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The number was a false one. They knew that Waverley would have a look at the number. Oh, these people are cunning--cunning." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Taylor, who is watching the Duke of Burghley's House in Berkeley Square, has just telephoned that a woman who corresponds to the description of Lola Rachael has just been admitted and is still there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't say so? he muttered. And then, more alertly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he still on the telephone? If so, tell him to detain her should she come out before I can get down. He must be as courteous as possible. We mustn't lose her now. And send a man down at once to bring Wills, the butler at Grosvenor Gardens, here. He's the only man who saw the veiled woman enter the house on the night of the murder." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known similar cases follow a great shock. She is mentally unbalanced on one point. Unless anything occurs to excite her in connection with that, time will effect a cure. She must not be opposed in her wishes, and I would suggest that she be taken out of London and an effort made to distract her. Plenty of society, outdoor amusements--anything to occupy her mind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suggested that we should leave London, said Lord Burghley gloomily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She refuses." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then don't press her. Ask her friends to visit her, and don't let her leave the house except with a competent attendant." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is so good of you, dear Mrs. Porter-Strangeways, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have only my friends to look forward to now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You poor girl! she exclaimed, throwing just the right reflection of sympathy into her not unmusical voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I called before, but you were unfit to see any one then. I took the liberty of bringing a friend to see you--the Princess Petrovska." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Russian title, I believe. Met her in Rome two years ago. She is a delightful woman--so bright and happy, though I believe, poor dear, she had a terrible time before her husband died. She called on me yesterday and asked me to bring her to see you. She's so interested in you. You don't mind?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had to see you alone, explained the older woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something of importance to say to you--that's why I made Mrs. Porter-Strangeways bring me. I feared that you would not see me otherwise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To see me alone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon me the Princess walked across the room and turned the key." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be better so, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I have to say must not be overheard. The life of a--some one may depend on secrecy." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I am not mad. She answered the unspoken question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite in my senses, I assure you. I have come to you with a message from one you think dead--from Robert Grell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "From one I _think_ dead! she repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob _is_ dead. She gripped the other woman fiercely by the shoulder and almost shook her in the intensity of her emotion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is dead, I tell you. What do you mean? I know he is dead. Do not lie to me. He is dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Calm yourself, Lady Eileen, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have been made the victim of a wicked deceit. He is not dead--but a man wonderfully like him is. I have come here at his request to relieve your mind. She dropped her voice to a whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the same time, he is in grave danger, and you can help him." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is dead, she protested faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairfield killed him. Why should he hide if he is not dead? Why should he not come here himself? Why should he send you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be a fool, retorted the other impatiently, and the impertinence of the words had the effect intended of bracing the half-fainting girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He does not come because to do so would be madness--because if he showed himself he would be at once arrested by Scotland Yard detectives. They believe him to be the murderer of his double--a man named Goldenburg. There is a note he gave me for you." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEAREST,--Forgive me for not letting you know before that I am safe. I had no means of communicating with you with safety. The man who is dead was killed by no wish of mine. Yet I dared not run the risk of arrest. The bearer of this is an old friend of mine who will herself be in peril by delivering this. Trust her, and destroy this. She will tell you how to keep in touch with me." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand, said Eileen wearily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He does not explain. There is nothing clear in the note but that he is alive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He dare say no more. We--that is--he's succeeded in evading the police so far. If by any chance that letter had fallen into their hands, it would have told them no more than they knew at present." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is he? demanded Eileen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must go to him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, that will never do. You would be followed. I will give any message for you. You can help, but not in that way. He is in need of money. Have you any of your own? Can you let him have, say, five hundred pounds at once?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is my jewellery, she said at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He--or you--can raise more than five hundred on that. Wait a moment." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grell shall tell you that in his own fashion, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You fully understand?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fully understand," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has not come out yet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, exclaimed Foyle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Wills. You have a good look at this woman when she does come out, and stoop down and tie your shoe-lace if she's anything like the woman who visited Robert Grell on the night of the murder. Be careful now. Don't make any mistakes. If you identify her you'll probably have to swear to her in court." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I never saw her face, complained Wills helplessly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you I was not certain I'd know her again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind. You have a look at her, old chap. You never know in these cases. You may remember her when you see her. Every one walks differently, and you may spot her by that. It won't do any harm if you don't succeed." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get hold of Wills and bring him after us to Malchester Row Police Station." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't try to open the door if I were you, he said quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might fall out." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean? How dare you molest me? Where are you taking me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a police officer--perhaps I needn't tell you that--and I am taking you to Malchester Row Police Station." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To arrest me? You would dare? Do you know I am the Princess Petrovska? There is some mistake. I shall appeal to the Russian Ambassador. What do you say I have done? I am a friend of Lady Eileen Meredith, the daughter of the Duke of Burghley. She will tell you I have only just left her. You are confusing me with some one else." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is not arrest, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not even detention--unless you force me to it. I am inviting you to accompany me to give an account of your movements on the night that Harry Goldenburg was murdered. I will call your bluff, Lola, and we will call at the ambassador's if you like." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are Mr. Heldon Foyle, of course, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard that you are very clever. I don't see what I can have had to do with the murder, even if I am Lola Rachael--which I admit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall see. Can you prove where you were between ten o'clock, when you left the Palatial Hotel, and midnight on that date?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are not so clever as I thought, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think that I am a murderess? I went straight to an hotel near Charing Cross--the Splendid--and caught the nine o'clock boat train to Paris. It is easily proved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you don't deny that you visited Grosvenor Gardens that night, that you were admitted by Ivan Abramovitch, Grell's valet, and taken to his study?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I do, she retorted laughingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that's all you've got to go upon you may as well let me go now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well. We shall see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her Majesty the Baby." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, he apologised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall have to keep you here for an hour or two while your statements are verified." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't mind, she countered lightly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be an amusing experience. I have never seen a police station before. Perhaps you would like to show me over while we're waiting, Mr. Foyle." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid I must deny myself that pleasure, he said suavely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are other matters which will take up our time. First, I shall be obliged if you will let the matron here search you." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have no right to search me. I am not under arrest," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want to earn ten pounds you will give me that back," } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is that to do with you? It is mine. Give it to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not unless you can prove it is yours. If you do not, I shall charge you with being in possession of property suspected to be stolen." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I refuse to tell you where I got them, she retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must do as you like." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it is my duty to warn you that anything you say may be used in evidence against you. You will be charged. He opened the door and cried down the corridor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reserve! To the constable who answered he indicated the Princess by a nod." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take this woman to the detention room. She will be paraded for identification in half an hour." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You say you couldn't recognise the woman who came out of Lord Burghley's house. Now we're going to give you another try. We don't want you to pick any one out unless you're absolutely sure. Mind that." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please choose a position among these ladies, said Foyle urbanely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may stand anywhere you like." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen any of these ladies before? Don't be in a hurry to answer. Walk down the line and take a good look at each." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walk round the room, if you please, ladies--from left to right. No, a little quicker. Now, Wills, see if you can recognise any of them by their walk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no good, sir, he confessed at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know any of 'em." } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you charge this woman, Mr. Foyle?" } ]
22173	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "One moment. I can explain how I got the jewels if I can see Mr. Foyle alone." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is what it comes to--that at eleven o'clock Sir Ralph said Mr. Grell was with him. You say that you had refused an offer of marriage from Sir Ralph, and think that he murdered Mr. Grell from jealousy. I may say that, though we know Sir Ralph was at his club for dinner and at eleven o'clock, we can find neither servants nor members who can say for certain that he was there at the time the murder was committed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it was he! she exclaimed eagerly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bob had not another enemy in the world. You will arrest him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, Foyle retorted, and noted that her face fell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All this is only suspicion. We must have proof to satisfy a jury before we can do anything with a man in Sir Ralph's position. And now, if you don't mind, I should like to put a few other questions to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pleasant girl, he commented." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seems wonderfully anxious to have Fairfield hanged. I suppose she was really infatuated with Grell. You never know how women are going to take things. I wonder if I can get a set of his finger-prints. That ought to settle the matter one way or the other, so far as he is concerned. But it won't clear up what Goldenburg was doing in Grell's place. I'll have to fix that somehow." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Millionaire Murdered on Wedding Eve. Strange Mystery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was Sir Ralph Fairfield in?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to apologise for my rudeness at Grosvenor Gardens, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was worried, and you were, of course, upset. Now we are both more calm, I come to ask you if you would like to add anything to what you said. Of course, you'll be called to give evidence at the inquest, and it would make it easier for you as well as for us if we knew what you were going to say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have told you all you will learn from me, he said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you've seen Lady Eileen Meredith." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. The lie was prompt, but the superintendent salved his conscience with the thought that it was a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know that she can tell us anything of value." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The terror of the law" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you're very busy, Mr. Foyle. I don't want to keep you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't force my company on you, Sir Ralph. If you will just dictate to me a description of the string of pearls that Grell showed you, I will go. Can you let me have a pen and some paper?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you sign that, please? No, here." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know how I came to do that. I am very sorry. It's smudged the paper a bit, but that won't matter. It's still readable. Good-bye, Sir Ralph." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is Foyle speaking, he said when at last he had got the man he asked for." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there anything fresh for me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing important, sir, except that Blake has found a curiosity dealer who says that the knife is one that must have come from South America. It is, he says, an unusual sort of Mexican dagger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh. Is the man who says that to be relied on? He isn't just guessing? We can do all the guessing we want ourselves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir, we think he's all right. It's Marfield--one of the biggest men in the trade. By the way, sir, there's a lot of newspaper men been asking for you since you left. They want to know about Goldenburg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So do I, retorted the other." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better be strictly truthful with 'em, Mainland. Tell 'em you know no more than is on the reward bill. They won't believe you, anyway. You can say I've gone home to bed, and that there will be nothing more doing this evening. Good-bye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Mexican dagger, he muttered to himself as he left the telephone-box." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if I were a story-book detective I should assume that the murderer was either a South American or had travelled in South America. It looked the kind of thing a woman might carry in her garter. And a veiled woman called on him that night --he made a wry face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Foyle, my lad, you're assuming things. That way madness lies. The dagger might have been bought anywhere as a curiosity, and the veiled woman may have been a purely innocent caller." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Eden? he cried effusively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who'd have thought of seeing you here! Business good? Still picking flowers?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's Mr. Foyle! he exclaimed heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How are you? We were just going. Let me introduce Mr. Maxwell." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the colonies, I suppose, Mr. Maxwell? I suppose Eden has told you he's just come over. Eden surveyed the detective with wide-open, innocent blue eyes in which there dwelt hurt reproach." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate to separate you, but I've got important business with him. Perhaps you'll meet another time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you'll excuse me now, old man, chimed in Eden blandly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call for me at the Palatial at eleven to-morrow, and we'll make a day of it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all right, Mr. Foyle, he protested eagerly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is _all right_. I haven't touched him for a sou." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a joker, Jimmy, he smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't get uneasy. I'm not going to carry you inside. Only you'll have to leave the Palatial to-night, Jimmy--to-night, do you understand? And if Maxwell turns up with a complaint against you there'll be pretty bad trouble. You'll be put out of temptation for good and all. There's such a thing as preventive detention in this country now, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Truth, Mr. Foyle, I haven't done a thing, he declared earnestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm trying the straight game now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And staying at the Palatial, he smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy! I believe you, of course." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When did you last see Goldenburg? he demanded curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No nonsense, mind, Jimmy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So that's the lay, is it? he said with relief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw the bills out for him, and I don't mind helping you if I can, Mr. Foyle. He was never what you'd call a proper pal, and I don't bear any malice, though you've just done me out of a cool five hundred. That mug who's just gone --he jerked his head towards the door--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cough it up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was in Victoria Station, talking to a foreign-looking chap, on Wednesday night. A look of astonishment crossed his face while he spoke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By the living jingo, there's the very man he was talking to coming in now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right, Jimmy. I'll talk to you later. Go to the Yard and wait till I come," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are the man who used to be Mr. Grell's valet, he said quietly in French." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a police officer, and you must come with me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no use making a scene, my man, he said, still speaking in French, his voice stern, but pitched in a low key." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are Ivan something-or-other, and you know of the murder of your master. So come along." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a mistake, protested the other volubly in the same language. His words slurred into each other in his excitement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not the man you take me for. I am Pierre Bazarre, a jeweller of Paris, and I have my credentials. I will not submit to this abominable outrage. I know nothing of M. Grell; you shall not arrest me----" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not arresting you, he said, ignoring the protestations of the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to detain you till you give a satisfactory explanation of your reason for leaving Mr. Grell's house on the night of the murder." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Street," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sorry if I hurt you, he apologised." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be all right in a minute. It has only upset your wind a little. That will pass off." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cigar? I've no doubt you'll be able to make things all right when we get to the station. There's nothing to worry about. You will just have a little talk with me, and as soon as one or two points are cleared up you'll be able to go." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As you like, he said imperturbably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're good cigars. I have them sent over to me by a friend direct from Havana." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Mr. Norman, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This gentleman wants to tell me something about the Grell case. Just give him a chair, will you, and send in a shorthand writer who understands French to take a statement." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall make no statement, broke in the Russian angrily, speaking in French, but with a readiness that showed he was able to follow English." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all a mistake--a mistake for which you will pay heavily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! that's just what I wish to get at. There seems to be a little confusion. Perhaps I have been over-zealous, but the fact is, Monsieur--er--Bazarre, you are wearing a false moustache, and that rather aroused my suspicions--see?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only wanted to feel sure that I was right. Now, monsieur, I want to make it clear that I have no right to ask you anything. If you wish to say anything, it will be taken down, and what action I take depends on what you say." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to help you if I can. I don't want to have to charge you with the murder of Mr. Grell." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Handcuffs," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You admit you are Ivan, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I am Ivan, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make what you can of that, but you cannot have me hanged for the murder of Mr. Grell--_and you know why_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because Mr. Grell is not dead, retorted the detective smoothly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know that." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What I want now, he went on slowly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These pearls were bought at Streeters' by Mr. Grell as a wedding present to Lady Eileen Meredith, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do they come in your possession?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They were given to me by Mr. Grell," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May as well have his finger-prints," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take those handcuffs off. You may go, Mr. Abramovitch." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop everything, he said in a curt whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take a couple of men and don't let that man out of your sight for an instant. I'll have you relieved from the Yard in an hour's time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't you going to charge him, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not likely," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we've taken every human precaution to preserve secrecy, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every one who knows that it is not Grell's body in the house has been pledged to hold his tongue. I have managed to get the inquest put back for three days, so that there will be no evidence of identification till then. That gives us a chance. And I've made out a confidential report to be sent to the Foreign Office, so that Grell's Government shan't get restive. Here are the latest reports, sir." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you let this man Ivan go? Do you think that wise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm fishing, answered Foyle enigmatically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't have better bait than Ivan. There are three men sticking to him like limpets now, and a couple are keeping an eye on Sir Ralph Fairfield. I think that will be all right. Do you remember the Mighton Grange case? We knew there had been a murder, but couldn't do anything till we found the body. Dutful, the murderer, would have slid off to some place where there's no extradition, but for the fact that I had him arrested on a charge of being in the unlawful possession of a pickaxe handle. This affair is the converse of that. We can't afford to have Ivan under lock and key." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe I see, he exclaimed after a pause." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ivan must have been something more than a valet. He's a superior type of man, and the conclusion to be drawn if he knows that Grell is alive----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Precisely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Any result from the offer of a reward for Goldenburg?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. He has been seen by different people within an hour or two of each other in Glasgow, Southampton, Gloucester, Cherbourg, Plymouth, and Cardiff. Our information on that point is not precisely helpful. Of course, we've got the local police making inquiries in each case, but I don't anticipate they will find out much. Still, it will keep 'em amused." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Velvet-fingered Ned had disappeared from Islington and reappeared in Brixton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tony Smith was due out of prison. Mike O'Brien had patched up the peace with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yid" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The man Ivan, whose description was circulated, is not to be touched now. Tell your men to let him alone if they come across him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very good, sir," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't 'urt you, did it? stormed the labourer aggressively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then in a lower tone:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm Foyle. I got your telephone message. Anything moving now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you don't go away I shall call a constable. Green had been quick to see his cue and spoke loudly. He went on rapidly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He hasn't stirred out. A post-office messenger has just gone in with a letter for him. I said I was expecting one, and got a glimpse at it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, old pal. Don't get excited. You go home and tell the missus all about it," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grave Street, Whitechapel, he murmured to himself, as the cab slipped away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ivan has got to work." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you would learn the truth about the murder in Grosvenor Gardens, come immediately to No. -- Grave Street." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll get even for that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop thief! Hold him!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curse it! This comes of acting on impulse. Why couldn't I have waited! I had the whole thing in my hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am alive. I must see you. Follow the man who gives you this note.--R. G." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Mr. Green. What's wrong?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley missing! That's nonsense. He was put on to relieve Norman in shadowing Ivan Abramovitch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's missing, repeated the other doggedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ivan went into a shop with an entrance in two streets, and the man who was assisting Waverley slipped round to the other side. He waited there an hour, and then went to look for Waverley." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Green, I guess you've been working too hard lately. You ought to apply for a fortnight's leave. Can't you see, Ivan came out and that Waverley never had time to give the tip to his man, but followed him straight away? There ought to have been three men on the job." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A third was not available when Waverley left, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is why I say Waverley is missing. It came by messenger five minutes ago, addressed to you. As senior officer I opened it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "DEAR MR. FOYLE,--You had better call your men off. We have got one of them safe, and hold him as a hostage for our own safety. If your people go on trying to make things unpleasant for us, things will get unpleasant for him. This is not melodrama, but brutal fact." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do they expect us to back down? asked the superintendent harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Waverley has been fool enough to get himself in a fix, he must take his chance if we can't get him out. Let's have a look at this paper." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've given us something that may help us, after all, Green, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here; these two middle ones are the prints on the dagger. Now let's see if we can learn anything from the typing." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you make of it, Green?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remington machine, latest pattern, answered the other briefly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The letter 'b' slightly battered, and the 'o' out of alignment. Used by a beginner. There is double spacing between some of the lines and single in others. A capital 'W' has been superimposed on a small one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's so, agreed his superior thoughtfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might see if the Remington people can give us any help with that. If possible, get a list of all the people who have bought machines during this last six weeks. It's a long shot, but long shots sometimes come off. And if you come into my room I'll give you a pistol. It'll be as well for you to carry one while you're on this case. I was shot at myself, to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, sir, I think I'll do without one, said the other quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My two fists are good enough for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As you like," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "October 14, he read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. John Smith, c/o Israels, 404A Grave Street, Whitechapel. He looked up into the stolid face of Green." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That seems like it, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and I will take a little trip this evening, Green. And I think you'd better have a pistol, after all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has been rendered completely prostrate by the shock," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here I will stay until Bob's murderer is punished," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a lot of persons from the newspapers waiting out in the streets, Lady Eileen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They might annoy you. They stop every one who goes in or out." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use, gentlemen, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not be interviewed. She looked very dainty and pathetic as she spread out her hands in a helpless little gesture." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I not appeal to your chivalry? You are besieging a house of mourning. And, please--please, I know what is in your minds--do not follow me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please do sit down, he pleaded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want to know how the case is progressing. I think we shall have some news for you by to-morrow. I hope it will be good." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are about to make an arrest?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't say that. It depends on circumstances," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will swear that the man Fairfield killed him, she cried passionately." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will let him get away--you and your red tape." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen to me, Lady Eileen, he said earnestly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Ralph Fairfield did not kill Mr. Grell. Of that I have proof. Will you not trust us and wait a little? You are doing Sir Ralph a great injustice by your suspicions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You talk to me as though I were a schoolgirl, she retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't throw dust in my eyes, Mr. Foyle. He has bought you. You are going to let him go. I know! I know! But he shall not escape." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will regret this when you are calmer," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me pass, please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to Sir Ralph Fairfield--to wring a confession from him, if you must know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me pass, please." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will let you pass after you have given me the pistol you are carrying in your muff," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can never tell what a woman will do, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, I think I have saved Ralph Fairfield's life to-day." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's an ugly job for us, sir, there's no disguising that. Naturally, they count on us keeping our mouths shut about Waverley. It's lucky he's not a married man. If the story of the way he was bagged becomes public property we shall be a laughing-stock, even if we get him out of his trouble. And if we don't, the scandal will be something worse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. It's bad--bad, agreed the Assistant Commissioner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Press must not hear of this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trust me, said Foyle grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Press won't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like this affair of Lady Eileen Meredith, went on Sir Hilary." }, { "from": "human", "value": "After all, she has a good right to know the truth. Wouldn't it be better to let her know that Grell is alive?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate it as much as you do, Sir Hilary. I can't take any chances, though. Grell knows we know he is alive. When he finds that this girl has not been told he may try to communicate with her, and then we may be able to lay hands on him and Ivan, and so clear up the mystery. There's another thing. As far as our inquiries through his solicitors and the bank go, he couldn't have had much ready cash on him. He'll try to get some sooner or later--probably through his friends. He's already tried to approach Fairfield." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, agreed the other in the tone of a man not quite convinced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, when are you going down to Grave Street again? You'll want at least a dozen men." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There won't be any trouble at Grave Street, answered Foyle with a smile;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But only two of you! Grave Street isn't exactly a nice place. If there is trouble----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll risk that, sir," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Hilary wanted me to take a dozen men, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him the two of us would be plenty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite enough, if we're to do anything, agreed Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't be out of it for a thousand. Poor old Waverley and I have put in a lot of time together. I guess I owe him my life, if it comes to that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was in the old garrotting days, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley and I were coming down the Tottenham Court Road a bit after midnight--just off Seven Dials. There were half-a-dozen men hanging about a corner, and one of them tiptoed after us with a pitch plaster--you'll remember they used to do the stuff up in sacking and pull it over your mouth from behind. I never noticed anything, but Waverley did. The man was just about to throw the thing over me when Waverley wheeled round and hit him clean across the face with a light cane he was carrying. The chap was knocked in the gutter and his pals came at us with a rush. A hansom driver shouted to us to leave the man in the roadway to him, and hanged if he didn't drive clean over him with the near-side wheel. That gave us our chance. We hopped into the cab and got away without staying to see if any one was hurt. But if Waverley hadn't hit out when he did I'd have been a goner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had a funny thing happen to me once in the Tottenham Court Road, said Foyle reminiscently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was an inspector then and big Bill Sladen was working with me--he had a beautiful tenor voice, you will remember. We were after a couple of confidence men and had a man we were towing about to identify them. Well, we got 'em down to a saloon bar near the Oxford Street end, but I daren't go in because they knew me. It was a bitter cold night, with a cold wind and snow and sleet. So I stayed on the opposite side of the road and induced Bill to go over and sing 'I am but a Poor Blind Boy,' in the hope that our birds would call him in and give him a drink. He hadn't been at it five minutes before a fiery, red-headed little potman had knocked him head over heels in the gutter and told him to go away. Bill could have broken the chap in two with his little finger, but he daren't do anything. He came over to me and I sent him back again. This time he did get invited inside. And there he stayed for a full hour, while the witness and I stood shivering and wet and miserable in the snow. We could hear him laughing and singing with the best of 'em. They wouldn't let him come away. It was not until I took all risks and marched in with the witness and arrested them that they tumbled to the fact that he wasn't a real street singer. He glanced at his watch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd better go and have a rest, Green. Meet me here at half-past twelve. We'll take a taxi to Aldgate and walk up from there. And, by the way, here's a pistol. I needn't tell you not to use it unless you've got to." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not a word, or it will be the worse for you. Let's have a light, Green." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are police officers. How many people are there in this house? demanded Foyle sternly, in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may as well answer in English. Quietly, now." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know why you have come, he answered, forming each word precisely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have done nothing wrong. I am an honest newsagent. There is only my wife, daughter, son, lodger in house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are a receiver of stolen goods, answered Foyle, something, it must be confessed, at a venture." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't trouble to deny it, Mr. Israels. We're not after you this time--not if you treat us fairly. What about this lodger of yours? Have you bought him a typewriter lately?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes--yes. I help you all I can," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I bought a typewriter--yes, went on Israels." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think he was honest. Didn't seem as though police after him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which room is he in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Next landing. Door on left," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's that girl? said the detective curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The one who gave the alarm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter? She thought you were burglars. She didn't know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The girl gave us away, exclaimed Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, you, where is she gone? He shook the woman roughly by the shoulder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go to the bottom of the stairs, Green, and see that no one slips in or out. Take that chap outside down with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My daughter? exclaimed the woman helplessly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has gone to stay with her aunt. We are respectable people. You frightened her. We don't like the police coming here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Highly respectable, repeated Foyle under his breath. Aloud he said menacingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall soon know whether you are respectable. Where does the girl's aunt live?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-two Shadwell Lane," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see, said the superintendent quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fact is, of course, that she is not your daughter, and that she has not gone to her aunt's. You are in an awkward corner, my man, he went on, changing his tone and moving a step nearer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better tell us the truth. Your wife has let me know something." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell all the truth, he whined, with an outspreading gesture of his hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've done no wrong. You can't hurt me. She came here a day or two ago and paid five pounds for a week's lodging. I was to tell any one who inquired that she was my daughter. She slept with my wife. What harm was there? I am poor. Five pounds isn't picked up like that every day. The man came afterwards. He said he was a journalist and asked me to buy him a typewriting machine. I asked no questions. Why should I?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He must have been sleeping in his clothes, grumbled Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He hadn't time to dress. There's the typewriter the note was written on." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This looks queer," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the same typewriter. There can be no question of that, said Green." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can see that the 'b' is knocked about and the 'o' is out of line." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all right, said Foyle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wasn't thinking of that. It looks to me as if there's some sympathetic writing on this." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cipher!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll let Jones have a go at that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything else now?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We didn't find anything bearing on Waverley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waverley? repeated Foyle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I had almost forgotten him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is all right," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you've got back, said the superintendent in a non-committal tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I hope that arm of yours is not badly hurt. What has been the trouble?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tried to bluff a bit, but he just laughed. And then I stayed with him in the same room up to within an hour or two ago, when some one came into the house and he was summoned outside the door. They had an excited pow-wow, and I could hear a woman talking. Finally, the man came back and told me they'd determined to let me go. He put a handkerchief over my eyes, and after a while I was taken down into what I thought was a taxicab. I was turned out a quarter of an hour ago at the Blackfriars end of the Embankment." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was the number of the cab?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It had no police number. Its index mark was A.A. 4796." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Metropolitan Police. Pocket Directory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Southampton registration, said the superintendent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Johns, get through on the 'phone to the Southampton police, and ask 'em to trace the owner of this car the moment the county council offices open." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The number's probably a false one--a board slipped over the real number, as they did in the Dalston case when some American toughs went through that jeweller a month or two back. We might as well look into it, though. These people are wily customers, or they wouldn't have kept you from seeing the rest of the gang. They tried to frighten us by threatening to make away with you. I think it likely that they found it rather a nuisance to look after you--especially when Green and I tumbled on to some of their people an hour ago. You haven't exactly covered yourself with glory, Waverley, but under the circumstances I shall take no disciplinary action. Now go and write out a full report, and then go home. The police surgeon will recommend what leave of absence you want to get over the stab in the arm. Good night--or rather, good morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir. Good morning, sir." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Car No. A.A. 4796 belongs to Mr. J. Price, The Grange, Lyndhurst. Mr. Price is an old resident in the neighbourhood and a man of means. The car is a six-cylinder Napier." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As I thought, commented Heldon Foyle thoughtfully, tearing the paper into little bits and dropping them into the waste-paper basket." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The number was a false one. They knew that Waverley would have a look at the number. Oh, these people are cunning--cunning." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Taylor, who is watching the Duke of Burghley's House in Berkeley Square, has just telephoned that a woman who corresponds to the description of Lola Rachael has just been admitted and is still there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't say so? he muttered. And then, more alertly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he still on the telephone? If so, tell him to detain her should she come out before I can get down. He must be as courteous as possible. We mustn't lose her now. And send a man down at once to bring Wills, the butler at Grosvenor Gardens, here. He's the only man who saw the veiled woman enter the house on the night of the murder." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have known similar cases follow a great shock. She is mentally unbalanced on one point. Unless anything occurs to excite her in connection with that, time will effect a cure. She must not be opposed in her wishes, and I would suggest that she be taken out of London and an effort made to distract her. Plenty of society, outdoor amusements--anything to occupy her mind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suggested that we should leave London, said Lord Burghley gloomily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She refuses." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then don't press her. Ask her friends to visit her, and don't let her leave the house except with a competent attendant." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is so good of you, dear Mrs. Porter-Strangeways, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have only my friends to look forward to now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You poor girl! she exclaimed, throwing just the right reflection of sympathy into her not unmusical voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I called before, but you were unfit to see any one then. I took the liberty of bringing a friend to see you--the Princess Petrovska." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Russian title, I believe. Met her in Rome two years ago. She is a delightful woman--so bright and happy, though I believe, poor dear, she had a terrible time before her husband died. She called on me yesterday and asked me to bring her to see you. She's so interested in you. You don't mind?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had to see you alone, explained the older woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have something of importance to say to you--that's why I made Mrs. Porter-Strangeways bring me. I feared that you would not see me otherwise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To see me alone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon me the Princess walked across the room and turned the key." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be better so, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I have to say must not be overheard. The life of a--some one may depend on secrecy." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I am not mad. She answered the unspoken question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite in my senses, I assure you. I have come to you with a message from one you think dead--from Robert Grell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "From one I _think_ dead! she repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob _is_ dead. She gripped the other woman fiercely by the shoulder and almost shook her in the intensity of her emotion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is dead, I tell you. What do you mean? I know he is dead. Do not lie to me. He is dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Calm yourself, Lady Eileen, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have been made the victim of a wicked deceit. He is not dead--but a man wonderfully like him is. I have come here at his request to relieve your mind. She dropped her voice to a whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the same time, he is in grave danger, and you can help him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is dead, she protested faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairfield killed him. Why should he hide if he is not dead? Why should he not come here himself? Why should he send you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be a fool, retorted the other impatiently, and the impertinence of the words had the effect intended of bracing the half-fainting girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He does not come because to do so would be madness--because if he showed himself he would be at once arrested by Scotland Yard detectives. They believe him to be the murderer of his double--a man named Goldenburg. There is a note he gave me for you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DEAREST,--Forgive me for not letting you know before that I am safe. I had no means of communicating with you with safety. The man who is dead was killed by no wish of mine. Yet I dared not run the risk of arrest. The bearer of this is an old friend of mine who will herself be in peril by delivering this. Trust her, and destroy this. She will tell you how to keep in touch with me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand, said Eileen wearily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He does not explain. There is nothing clear in the note but that he is alive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He dare say no more. We--that is--he's succeeded in evading the police so far. If by any chance that letter had fallen into their hands, it would have told them no more than they knew at present." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is he? demanded Eileen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must go to him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, that will never do. You would be followed. I will give any message for you. You can help, but not in that way. He is in need of money. Have you any of your own? Can you let him have, say, five hundred pounds at once?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is my jewellery, she said at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He--or you--can raise more than five hundred on that. Wait a moment." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Grell shall tell you that in his own fashion, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You fully understand?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fully understand," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has not come out yet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, exclaimed Foyle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Wills. You have a good look at this woman when she does come out, and stoop down and tie your shoe-lace if she's anything like the woman who visited Robert Grell on the night of the murder. Be careful now. Don't make any mistakes. If you identify her you'll probably have to swear to her in court." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I never saw her face, complained Wills helplessly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you I was not certain I'd know her again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind. You have a look at her, old chap. You never know in these cases. You may remember her when you see her. Every one walks differently, and you may spot her by that. It won't do any harm if you don't succeed." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get hold of Wills and bring him after us to Malchester Row Police Station." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't try to open the door if I were you, he said quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You might fall out." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean? How dare you molest me? Where are you taking me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a police officer--perhaps I needn't tell you that--and I am taking you to Malchester Row Police Station." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To arrest me? You would dare? Do you know I am the Princess Petrovska? There is some mistake. I shall appeal to the Russian Ambassador. What do you say I have done? I am a friend of Lady Eileen Meredith, the daughter of the Duke of Burghley. She will tell you I have only just left her. You are confusing me with some one else." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is not arrest, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not even detention--unless you force me to it. I am inviting you to accompany me to give an account of your movements on the night that Harry Goldenburg was murdered. I will call your bluff, Lola, and we will call at the ambassador's if you like." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are Mr. Heldon Foyle, of course, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard that you are very clever. I don't see what I can have had to do with the murder, even if I am Lola Rachael--which I admit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall see. Can you prove where you were between ten o'clock, when you left the Palatial Hotel, and midnight on that date?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are not so clever as I thought, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think that I am a murderess? I went straight to an hotel near Charing Cross--the Splendid--and caught the nine o'clock boat train to Paris. It is easily proved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you don't deny that you visited Grosvenor Gardens that night, that you were admitted by Ivan Abramovitch, Grell's valet, and taken to his study?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I do, she retorted laughingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that's all you've got to go upon you may as well let me go now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well. We shall see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her Majesty the Baby." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, he apologised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall have to keep you here for an hour or two while your statements are verified." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't mind, she countered lightly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be an amusing experience. I have never seen a police station before. Perhaps you would like to show me over while we're waiting, Mr. Foyle." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid I must deny myself that pleasure, he said suavely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are other matters which will take up our time. First, I shall be obliged if you will let the matron here search you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have no right to search me. I am not under arrest," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want to earn ten pounds you will give me that back," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is that to do with you? It is mine. Give it to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not unless you can prove it is yours. If you do not, I shall charge you with being in possession of property suspected to be stolen." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I refuse to tell you where I got them, she retorted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must do as you like." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it is my duty to warn you that anything you say may be used in evidence against you. You will be charged. He opened the door and cried down the corridor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reserve! To the constable who answered he indicated the Princess by a nod." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take this woman to the detention room. She will be paraded for identification in half an hour." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You say you couldn't recognise the woman who came out of Lord Burghley's house. Now we're going to give you another try. We don't want you to pick any one out unless you're absolutely sure. Mind that." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please choose a position among these ladies, said Foyle urbanely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may stand anywhere you like." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen any of these ladies before? Don't be in a hurry to answer. Walk down the line and take a good look at each." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walk round the room, if you please, ladies--from left to right. No, a little quicker. Now, Wills, see if you can recognise any of them by their walk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no good, sir, he confessed at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know any of 'em." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you charge this woman, Mr. Foyle?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One moment. I can explain how I got the jewels if I can see Mr. Foyle alone." } ]