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

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10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This will do, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leave my bag on the seat, and go and see that my portmanteau is safely in the van. Then if you come back here I will give you threepence for your trouble." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir, thank you, he remarked breathlessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am extremely obliged to you, sir." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, of course not," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I daresay you find these sudden changes especially trying, commented my companion. Then, with a sort of apology in his voice, he added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One can hardly help seeing that you have been accustomed to a warmer climate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been out of England, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, sir, indeed, said the old gentleman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I envy you, sir. I only wish my own duties permitted me to winter entirely abroad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has its advantages, I admitted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "For one thing, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have hardly seen a paper of any kind for a fortnight! I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there any particular news? The last interesting thing I saw was about that young fellow's escape from Dartmoor--that young inventor--what was his name?--who was in for murder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Lyndon, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neil Lyndon you mean. He is still at large." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From what I read of the case, I went on carelessly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, as a matter of fact I am scarcely in a position to discuss the subject, he said courteously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps, sir, you are unaware who I am?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, I have been so much abroad," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Permit me, sir," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was very stupid of me not to have recognized you from your pictures," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see now, sir, he said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can attend to this gentleman, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My own servant is somewhere on the platform. Then turning to me, he added courteously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you good-day, sir. I am pleased to have made your acquaintance. I trust that we shall have the mutual pleasure of meeting again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope we shall, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a distinction that I shall vastly appreciate." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where to, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drive me to George," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You had better drive me slowly along Oxford Street, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to stop at one or two shops." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "West End Misfits," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? I said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you Mrs. Oldbury?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm Mrs. Oldbury; and you'd be the gentleman I'm expectin'--Dr. McMurtrie's gentleman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's right, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm Mr. Nicholson. Then, as the heavily laden taxi-man staggered up the steps, I added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And these are my belongings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This will be your sitting-room, sir, she said, turning up the gas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a nice hairy room, and I give it a proper cleaning out this morning." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is the bedroom, sir. It's what you might call 'andy--and quiet too. You'll find that a nice comfortable bed, sir. It's the one my late 'usband died in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It sounds restful," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think I'll trouble you, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have got to go out in any case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's no trouble, sir--no trouble at all. I can put you on a nice little bit o' steak as easy as anything if you 'appen to fancy it." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, thanks, I said firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want anything except some hot water and a latchkey, if you have such a thing to spare. I don't know what time you go to bed here, but I may be a little late getting back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not gen'rally in bed--not much before midnight, sir, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you should be later per'aps you'd be kind enough to turn out the gas in the 'all. I'll send you up some 'ot water by the girl." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If yer please, sir, she said, with a sniff," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury wants ter know if yer'll be likin' a barf in the mornin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can tell Mrs. Oldbury that the answer is yes, I said gravely. Then I paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gertie, sir. Gertie 'Uggins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take these, Gertie, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You needn't thank me, Gertie, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where to, guv'nor?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening, I began;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, M. Gaultier, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want a good dinner--a quite exceptionally good dinner. I have been waiting for it for some time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur is hungry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, I replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go, I replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Heaven attend your council." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fetch me, I said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what will Monsieur drink?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, I replied," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Serenely calm, the epicure may say: Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most people, he said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of Town. Please leave any telegrams or urgent letters at No. 4. T.M." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Vivien." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Miss Vivien in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Vivien's out. 'Ave you got an appointment?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only want to know where Mr. Morrison is, and when he's coming back. There's a notice on his door asking that any letters or telegrams should be left here, so I thought Miss Vivien might know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "she said shortly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks, I said; and then after a moment's pause I added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose if I addressed a letter here it would be forwarded?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I s'pose so," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, George, I said softly;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yer want yer barf?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do, Gertrude, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Grahnd floor wants 'is 'ot water quick." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lyndon and Marwood" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, saire. Too early for lunch, saire. 'Am-an'-eggs, saire?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, I said;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Rich. Jones, M.D., and the other" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mlle. Vivien." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Vivien" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saloon Bar." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, sir: what can I get you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll have a whisky-and-soda, thanks," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't happen to know any one of the name of Vivien about here, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vivien! he repeated;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, I said; then, with a coolness which would have done credit to Ananias, I added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A friend of mine has picked up a little bag or something with 'Vivien, Bond Street,' on it. He asked me to see if I could find the owner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That'll be her, I expect. Mamzelle Vivien the palmist--just across the way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she's a palmist, is she?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that's what she calls 'erself, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palmist and Clairvoyante; and a smart bit o' goods she is too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I thought the police had stopped that sort of thing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The police don't interfere with her. She don't advertise or anything like that, and I reckon she has some pretty useful friends. You'd be surprised if I was to tell you some o' the people I seen going in there--Cabinet Ministers and Bishops." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds like the Athenaeum Club, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know what she charges?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he replied;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mademoiselle Vivien." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Mademoiselle at home?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you an appointment, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you will step in here, sir, I will inquire. Mademoiselle very seldom sees any one without an appointment." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you will kindly come this way, sir, Mademoiselle will see you," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! she whispered;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know, I said simply;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I followed George here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What have they done to you? she moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have they done to you, my Neil? And your hands--oh, your poor dear hands!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, Joyce, I said, a little roughly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For God's sake don't do that." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must speak to Jack--now at once, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He mustn't let any one else into the flat." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, Neil, she said, stretching out her hands;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My little Joyce, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, brave little Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she sobbed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then she half pushed me back, and gazed up into my face with her blue, tear-stained eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where have you been? What have they done to you? Oh, tell me--tell me, Neil. It's breaking my heart to see you so different." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had known it was you, Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should have let George go to the devil before I followed him here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where should you go to if you didn't come to me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my poor Joyce, I said bitterly;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing of you left, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, taking my hands again and pressing them to her, she added passionately:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, tell me what it means, Neil. Tell me everything that's happened to you from the moment you got away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, I said recklessly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be dragging you into all sorts of dangers, and I shall be breaking my oath to McMurtrie, but after all that's just the sort of thing one would expect from an escaped convict." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tommy was right, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He said you'd do something wonderful. I knew it too, but oh, Neil dear, I've suffered tortures wondering where you were and what had happened." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These people--Dr. McMurtrie and the others--do you believe their story?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I said bluntly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite certain they were lying to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should they have helped you, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't the remotest idea, I admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am only quite sure that neither McMurtrie nor Savaroff are what they pretend to be. Besides, you remember the hints that Sonia gave me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Sonia! Joyce looked down and played with one of the buttons of my coat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she--is she very pretty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She seems likely to be very useful, I said. Then, stroking Joyce's soft curly hair, which had become all tousled against my shoulder, I added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm answering questions when all the time I'm dying to ask them. There are a hundred things you've got to tell me. What are you doing here? Why do you call yourself Miss Vivien? Are you really living next door to Tommy? And George--how on earth do you come to be mixed up with George?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you everything, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joyce, I said slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to find out who killed Seton Marks. I don't suppose there is the least chance of my doing so, and if I can't I most certainly mean to wring George's neck. That was chiefly what I broke out of prison for." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, she said feverishly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She put her hands to her forehead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I hardly know where to begin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Begin anywhere, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me why you're pretending to be a palmist." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted money, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I left eight hundred pounds for you with Tommy, I exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You got that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's in the bank now. I have been keeping it in case anything happened. You don't suppose I was going to spend it? How could I have helped you then even when I got the chance?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear Joyce, I protested," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When your sentence was out, repeated Joyce fiercely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think I was going to let you stop in prison till then! She checked herself with an effort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had better tell you everything from the beginning, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't write any more to you, because I was only allowed to send the two letters, and I knew both of them would be read by somebody." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I went away after the trial. I was very ill, and Tommy took me to a little place called Looe, down in Cornwall. We stayed there nearly six months. When I came back I took the flat next to him and called myself Miss Vivien. I had made up my mind then what I was going to do. You see there were only two possible ways in which I could help you. One was to find out who killed Marks, and the other was to get you out of prison--anyhow. Of course, after the trial, it seemed madness to think about the first, but then I just had three things to go on. I knew that you were innocent, I knew that for some reason of his own George had lied about you, and I knew that there had been some one else in the flat the day of the murder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The man who was with Marks when you arrived, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you saw him go away, and there was nothing to connect him with the murder, except the fact that he didn't turn up at the trial. Sexton himself had to admit that in his speech." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was his face, said Joyce quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a dreadful face. It looked as if all the goodness had been burned out of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are about five hundred gentlemen like that in Princetown, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Sexton did everything he could, but it was quite useless. Whoever he was, the man never came forward, and you see there was no one except me who even knew what he was like. It was partly that which first gave me the idea of becoming a palmist. I thought that up here in the West End I was more likely to come across him than anywhere else. And then there were other people I meant to meet--men in the Government who might be able to get your sentence shortened. I knew I was beautiful, and with some men you can do anything if you're beautiful, and--and you don't care." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Joyce! I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she broke in passionately:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She paused, then with a little break in her voice she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I think Lord Lammersfield is rather like Tommy in some ways." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose there are still one or two white men about," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord Lammersfield used to be at the Home Office once, so of course his influence would count for a great deal. Well, he did all that was possible for me, but about six months ago he told me that there was no chance of your being let out for another three years. It was then that I made up my mind to get to know George." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You--you've got rather thorough ideas about friendship, Joyce, I said, a little unsteadily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I smoke?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have I? she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you taught me them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did you manage it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it was easy enough. I asked Lord Lammersfield to bring him here one day. You know what George is like; he would never refuse to do anything a Cabinet Minister suggested. Of course he had no idea who I was until he arrived." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been quite a pleasant surprise for him, I said grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he recognize you at once?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He had only seen me at the trial, and I had my hair down then. Besides, two years make a lot of difference." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've made a lot of difference in you, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've turned you from a pretty child into a beautiful woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it was hateful in a way, but I didn't care. I knew George was hiding something that might help to get you out of prison, and what did my feelings matter compared with that! Besides-- she smiled mockingly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He knows who you are now, of course?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him. He would have been almost certain to find out, and then he would probably have been suspicious. As it is he thinks our meeting was just pure chance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But surely, I objected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are times, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sometimes wonder why I haven't killed him, she went on slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I should have if he had ever tried to kiss me. As it is-- she laughed again in the same way--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if he doesn't try to make love to you--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she said, with a little shrug of her shoulders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's horribly frightened of you. Of course he tries to hide it from me, but I can see that ever since you escaped from prison he has been living in a state of absolute terror. His one idea at present is a frantic hope that you will be recaptured. That's partly where I come in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. He thinks that sooner or later, when you want help, you will probably write and tell me where you are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And then you are to pass the good news on to him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He says that if I let him know at once, he will arrange to get you safely out of the country." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love to hear you laugh again. Then, slipping her hand into mine, she went on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose he means to arrange it so that it will look as if you had been caught by accident while he was trying to help you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect so, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be out of the way again then, and you would be so overcome by gratitude--Oh, yes, there's quite a Georgian touch about it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know who it is, whispered Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's old Lady Mortimer. She had an appointment for one o'clock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what have you arranged to do? I asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no reason you should put all your people off. I can go away for the time, or stop in another room, or something." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; it's all right, whispered Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you in a minute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told Jack, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything but eggs and bacon," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't this splendid! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only this morning I was utterly miserable wondering if you were dead, and here we are having lunch together just like the old days in Chelsea." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Except for your hair, Joyce, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you remember how it was always getting in your eyes?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that! she cried;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I could do something like that, I said ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid my changes are more permanent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor dear, she said, pressing it to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind; you look splendid as you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Won't your boy think there's something odd in our lunching together like this? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He seems a pretty acute sort of youth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Jack's all right. He was a model in Chelsea. I took him away from his uncle, who used to beat him with a poker. He doesn't know anything about you, but if he did he would die for you cheerfully. He's by way of being rather grateful to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You always inspired devotion, Joyce, I said, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you remember how Tommy and I used to squabble as to which of us should eventually adopt you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll lunch in there. It's more cheerful than this, and anyway I want to see you in the daylight." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's wonderful, Neil, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look fifteen years older and absolutely different. No one could possibly recognize you except by the way you speak." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been practising that, I said, altering my voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't have given myself away if you hadn't taken me by surprise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's so good to feel that you're safe, even if it's only for a few days. Then, letting go my arm, she crossed to the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and sit down, she went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to decide all sorts of things, and we shan't have too much time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've told you my plans, Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shrugged my shoulders and sat down on the sofa beside her;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neil, she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was rather rude." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was rather right, she answered calmly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know what the penalties are for helping an escaped convict?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Neil. For three years Tommy and I have had no other idea except to get you out of prison. Is it likely we should leave you now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what can you do, Joyce? I objected." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll only be running yourselves into danger, and--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Neil dear, she interrupted;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But suppose I refuse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then as soon as Tommy comes back tomorrow I shall tell him everything that you've told me. I know your address at Pimlico, and I know just about where your hut will be down the Thames. If you think Tommy will rest for a minute till he's found you, you must have forgotten a lot about him in the last three years." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what are your ideas, Joyce? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Except for keeping my eye on George I had no particular plan until I heard from McMurtrie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tomorrow, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, I said reluctantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will go and look up Tommy, but I can't see that it will do any good. I am only making you and him liable to eighteen months' hard labour. She was going to speak, but I went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you see, Joyce dear, there are only two possible courses open to me? I can either wait and carry out my agreement with McMurtrie, or I can go down to Chelsea and force the truth about Marks's death out of George--if he really knows it. Dragging you two into my wretched affairs won't alter them at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it will, she said obstinately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are lots of ways in which we can help you. Suppose these people turn out wrong, for instance; they might even mean to give you up to the police as soon as they've got your secret. And then there's George. If he does know anything about the murder I'm the only person who is the least likely to find it out. Why--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's Jack with the lunch, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along, Neil dear. We won't argue about it any more now. Let's forget everything for an hour,--just be happy together as if we were back in Chelsea." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got what I could, Mademoiselle, he observed, putting down his burdens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oyster patties, galatine, cheese-cakes, and a bottle of champagne. I hope that will please Mademoiselle?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds distinctly pleasing, Jack, said Joyce gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But then you always do just what I want." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must go, Joyce, I said reluctantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I've got to do my hair by three, and turn myself back from Joyce into Mademoiselle Vivien--if I can. Oh, Neil, Neil; it's a funny, mad world, isn't it!" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here are your dear things, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know just what he'll do, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll stare at me for a minute; then he'll say quite quietly, 'Well, I'm damned,' and go and pour himself out a whisky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's exactly what will happen. Then with a little change in her voice she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you will be careful, won't you, Neil? I know you're quite safe; no one can possibly recognize you; but I'm frightened all the same--horribly frightened. Isn't it silly of me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you have got the bravest heart in the whole world." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I 'eard you a-comin', she observed, rubbing one hand down her leg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was very charming of you, Gertrude," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a letter for you in the sittin'-room. Come by the post after you'd gorn. Yer want some tea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind a cup, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been eating and drinking all day; it seems a pity to give it up now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll mike yer one, she remarked, nodding her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury's gorn out shoppin'." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will receive either a message or a visitor at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Kindly make it convenient to be at home at that hour." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow that taxi in front, I said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you keep it in sight till it stops I'll give you five shillings for yourself." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gent's standin' on the pavement payin' 'is fare, sir, he observed in a hoarse whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thought ye might like to know before ye gets out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take the chance of lighting a cigarette." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's another gent just come up in a taxi, sir--proper toff too from 'is looks. 'E's shakin' 'ands with our bloke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he an old man? I asked quickly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've gone inside now, Guv'nor; they won't spot ye if you want to 'op it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank ye, sir. Thank ye very much. Then, fumbling in his pocket, he produced a rather dirty and crumpled card." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't rightly know what the game is, Guv'nor, he went on in a lowered tone," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What Does the Kaiser Mean?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't drink your wine. The man with you has just put something into it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want to earn half a sovereign?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen to me, then, I said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks. I shall be still more grateful if you will look me up at the above address." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's me all right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name's Nicholson, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am an artist. I was asked to look you up by a friend of yours--Delacour of Paris." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come in, he cried, swinging open the door and gripping my hand;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm awfully glad I was in, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't have missed you for the world. How's old Delacour? I haven't seen him for ages. I never get over to Paris these days." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Delacour's all right, I answered--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have a drink, won't you? he asked;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were always a drunken old blackguard, Tommy." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'm damned!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, Tommy, I said cheerfully;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "God deliver us! he observed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's left of me, Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You old ruffian! he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always said you'd do something like this. Lord alive, it's good to see you, though! Then, pulling me up out of the chair, he caught me by the shoulders and stared incredulously into my face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what the devil's happened? What have you done to yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know what I'm going to do to myself, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to get outside some of that drink you were talking about--if there's any left." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are--and I'm hanged if I don't have another one myself. I believe I could drink the whole bottle without turning a hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure you could, Tommy, I said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been blasphemous to drink out of it again in any case," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, old son, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so glad to see you that I shall start wrecking the blessed studio in a minute. For God's sake tell me what it all means." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, then, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't help it, Tommy, I finished." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't want to drag you in, but you know what Joyce is when she has once made up her mind about anything. I thought the only way was to come and see you. Between us--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And do you mean to tell me that, if it hadn't been for Joyce, you wouldn't have come! By Gad, Neil, if I wasn't so glad to see you I'd--I'd--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord, what a yarn! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a hell of a yarn!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I told you it was," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew something had happened. I knew at least that you weren't going to be taken alive; but this-- He stopped short in front of me and once more gazed incredulously into my face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't know you from the Angel Gabriel!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Except that he's clean shaven, I said. Then I paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Tommy, I went on seriously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear chap, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But there isn't a chance, I objected." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If we couldn't find out the truth at the trial it's not likely we shall now--unless I choke it out of George. Besides, it's quite possible that even he doesn't know who really killed Marks. He may only have lied about me for some reason of his own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's likely enough, but it's all my eye to say we can't help you. There are a hundred ways in which you'll want friends. To start with, all this business of McMurtrie's, or whatever his name is, sounds devilish queer to me. I don't believe his yarn any more than you do. There's something shady about it, you can be certain. When are you supposed to start work?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall know in about an hour, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forgot to tell you that when I came back from Joyce's yesterday I found a note--I suppose from them--saying that I should have a message or a visitor at five o'clock today, and would I be good enough to be home at that time. At least it wasn't put quite so politely. Then I paused." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord! I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out the card which had been sent me in the restaurant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you ever heard of a man called Bruce Latimer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bruce Latimer, he repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know _a_ Bruce Latimer?--lives in Jermyn Street. What's he got to do with it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, slightly. He belongs to the Athenians. He used to do a lot of sailing at one time, but I haven't seen him down there this year." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is he? What is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know exactly. He's in some Government office, I believe, but he's not the sort of chap who ever talks about his own affairs. Where on earth did you come across him?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're not joking? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is Gospel truth you're telling me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Humour's a bit out of my line nowadays, Tommy, I answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Dartmoor climate doesn't seem to suit it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But--but-- he stared for a moment at the card without speaking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, this beats everything, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What in God's name can Bruce Latimer have to do with your crowd?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That, I remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Find out! repeated Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll find out right enough. Do you think he guessed who it was that sent the note?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most likely he did, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was the nearest person, but in any case he only saw my back. You can't recognize a man from his back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "he said at last--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I said reluctantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose I take it on, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What could you say?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should tell him that it was a friend of mine--an artist who was going abroad the next day--who had seen it happen, and that he'd given me the card and asked me to explain. It's just possible Latimer would take me into his confidence. He would either have to do that or else pretend that the whole thing was a joke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure there was no joke about it, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whether the chap with the scar belongs to McMurtrie's crowd or not, I'm as certain as I am that I'm standing here that he drugged that wine. He may not have meant to murder Latimer, but it looks uncommon fishy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It looks even fishier than you think, answered Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd forgotten for the moment, when you asked about him, but I remember now that some fellow at the Athenians once told me that Latimer was supposed to be a secret-service man of some kind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A secret-service man! I repeated incredulously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know we went in for such luxuries in this country except in novels. Do you believe it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't pay much attention at the time--I thought it was probably all rot--but this business--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, Tommy! I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Neil! he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like it; I'm hanged if I do. There's some rotten dirty work going on somewhere; that's as plain as a pikestaff. I believe these people are simply using you as a cats-paw. All they want is to get hold of the secret of this new explosive of yours; then as likely as not they'll hand you over to the police, or else.... he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you've seen the sort of crowd they are. It may be all rot about Latimer being in the secret service, but there's no doubt they tried to poison or drug him last night. Men who will go as far as that wouldn't stick at getting rid of you if it happened to suit their book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all true enough, Tommy, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop it, Neil; chuck the whole thing and go to America. Joyce has got that eight hundred pounds of yours; and I can easily let you have another two or three. In six months' time you'll be able to make as much money as you choose. You've had three years of hell; what's the good of running any risks that you can avoid? If there's the least faintest chance of getting at the truth, you can be certain I'll do it. Don't go and smash up all the rest of your life over this cursed business. What does it matter if all the fools in England think you killed Marks? He deserved to be killed anyway--the swine! Leave them to think, and clear off to some country where you can start fresh and fair again. It doesn't matter the least where you go to, you're bound to come to the top." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said firmly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm damned if I'll go. I'll see this out if it means the end of everything." }, { "from": "human", "value": "from the clock on the mantelpiece, and looking up I saw that it was half-past four." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Gad, Tommy, I added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go from here, though. I've got to be back at Edith Terrace by five o'clock, or I shall miss this mysterious visitor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're coming back here afterwards?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I can. I haven't the least notion how long they'll keep me, but I told Joyce I would come round and let you know what had happened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, said Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be longer than you can help. I'll get in something to eat, and we'll all have supper together--you and I and Joyce, and then we can have a good jaw afterwards. There are still tons of things I want to know about." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the way, Thomas, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose the police aren't watching your place, just on the off-chance of my rolling up. They must remember you were rather a particular pal of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think so, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They may have had a man on when you first escaped, but if so he must have got fed up with the job by now. Don't you worry in any case. Your guardian angel wouldn't recognize you in that get up--let alone a policeman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If there's any justice, I said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Victoria" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was watchin' for yer, she remarked in a hoarse whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's summun wants to see yer in there. She jerked her thumb towards the sitting-room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a lidy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lady! I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sort of a lady?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ow! A reel lidy. She's got a lovely 'at." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is she young and dark and rather nice to look at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's 'er. She wouldn't give no nime, but that's 'er right enough." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! she exclaimed softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad you weren't late. I have to go away quite soon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Sonia, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know myself, she answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The doctor meant to come, but he was called away unexpectedly this afternoon, so he sent me instead. I have got a letter for you from him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I read it now?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "L.J. McMURTRIE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know what this is about, of course, Sonia?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They want you to go down there at once. You must do it; you must do everything you are told just at present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ought to be able to manage that, I said grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've had plenty of practice the last three years." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must trust me, she said, speaking in that low passionate voice of hers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know that I love you; you know that I am only waiting for the right time to act. When it comes I will give you a chance such as few men have had--a chance that will mean wealth and freedom and--and--love." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a poor sort of host, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, she answered quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want anything. I must go in a minute; I have to meet my father with the car. Then, taking my hand between hers, she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me what you have been doing yourself. Have you seen your cousin--the man who lied about you at the trial? I have been afraid about him; I have been afraid that you would kill him and perhaps be found out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no hurry about it, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's rather pleasant to have something to look forward to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you have seen him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had the pleasure of walking behind him for a couple of miles yesterday. He looks a little worried, but quite well otherwise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you can afford to let him wait. And the girl, Joyce? Have you seen her?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "George is the only part of my past that interests me now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sonia, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What makes you think so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told them it was unnecessary!" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope the report was satisfactory," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They only wanted to make certain that you had gone to Edith Terrace. I don't think you were followed after the first night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mustn't stay any longer--now, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have to meet the car at six o'clock. Here are the keys." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, Sonia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, she whispered;" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lidy's gorn?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no deception, Gertrude, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can search the coal-scuttle if you like." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury sent me up to ask if you'd be wantin' dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Taikin' 'er, I s'pose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be quite exact, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am dining with another lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ere, she said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I ain't spendin' it on no dinner--see. I'm goin' to buy a 'at wiv it--a 'at like 'ers: d'yer mind?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do mind, I said severely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That money was intended for your inside, Gertie, not your outside. You have your dinner, and I'll buy you a new hat myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ow! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yer mean it? Yer reely mean it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never joke, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ain't 'alf--'alf bin good to me, she jerked out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No one ain't never bin good to me like you. I'd--I'd do anyfink for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In that case, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goo'-night, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night, Gertrude," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Vivien were both" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison, I believe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is fine. I never thought you'd be back as quick as this. Are things all right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should hardly go as far as that, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we seem to be getting along quite nicely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! I just want a wash, and then we'll go right in to Joyce's place. We are going to have supper there, and you can tell us all about it while we're feeding." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, he said, flinging down the towel on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joyce will be dying to hear what's happened!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that way. We've a private road now--runs along the back of the studios." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But how nice! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought you'd be here so soon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At last! she cried softly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Damn it, he said huskily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I feel all right, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he doesn't look a bit like a brigand chief. He looks splendid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose we shall get used to it, remarked Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It nearly gave me heart disease to begin with. Then, going and locking the side door, he added cheerfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I vote we have supper at once. I've had nothing except whisky since I came off the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, there's heaps to eat, said Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been out marketing in the King's Road." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a cold chicken and salad, some stuffed olives--those are for you, Neil, you always used to like them--a piece of Stilton cheese and a couple of bottles of champagne. They're all in the kitchen, so come along both of you and help me get them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the faithful Clara?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've sent her out for the evening. I didn't want any one to be here except just us three." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I keep on feeling I shall wake up in a minute, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put it off as long as possible, said Tommy gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be rotten for Neil to find himself back in Dartmoor before he'd finished his champagne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know when I shall get any more as it is, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got to start work the day after tomorrow." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's happened?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's too polite, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's too damn' polite altogether. You can see they're up to some mischief." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid they are, Tommy, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's right up to date: I've told her everything. The question is, how much has that affair got to do with us? It's quite possible, if they're the sort of scoundrels they seem to be, that they might be up against the Secret Service in some way quite apart from their dealings with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, Tommy! I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought of that. One's inclined to get a bit egotistical when one's an escaped murderer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was Joyce's idea, admitted Tommy modestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goodness knows, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks as if there was a chance of making a big immediate profit on my invention, and that she intended me to scoop it in instead of her father and McMurtrie. I can't think of anything else." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She must be pretty keen on you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you needn't rub it in, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel quite enough of a cad as it is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're not, interrupted Joyce indignantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she really loves you, of course she wants to help you whether you love her or not." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still, she'll expect a _quid pro quo_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it isn't love, returned Joyce scornfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What about your invention? asked Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long will it take you to work it out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, as a matter of fact, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've handled the whole thing splendidly up till now, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rather think it's the ticklish part that's coming, though. Then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here! he added suddenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a great notion. Why shouldn't we run down tomorrow in the _Betty_ and have a squint at this place of yours? There's nothing like taking a few soundings when you're not too sure about things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd love to, Tommy, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He won't, interrupted Tommy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, exclaimed Joyce, her eyes shining eagerly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go. It can't do any harm, and you might find out all sorts of useful things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, added Tommy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three years," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're--you're something like pals, you two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a time-table somewhere here, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know 'em backwards. We'll catch the nine-five from Fenchurch Street. It's low water at eight-thirty, so that will get us in about the right time. We can leave the _Betty_ at Tilbury or Gravesend afterwards, and come back by train from there. We'll be home for dinner or supper or something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That will just do, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going out again with George in the evening. Oh, I haven't told either of you about last night--have I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean to drop it quite soon, she said calmly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She paused a moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me last night that he was expecting to get a cheque for twelve thousand pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twelve thousand pounds!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where the Devil's he going to get it from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That, said Joyce," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what dog's trick he's up to now. He can't be getting the money straight: I know they've done nothing there the last year." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be interesting to find out, I admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, Joyce, I don't see why you should do all the dirty work of the firm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's my job for the minute, said Joyce cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got those out of the bank today, she said--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like your description of us as the firm, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Firm! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And may all the fools who sent Neil to prison live to learn their idiocy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Firm! I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Firm! she said softly. Then, with a little break in her voice, she added in a whisper:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you don't really want Sonia, do you, Neil?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CATCH" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! exclaimed Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were just getting the jim-jams about you. Thought you'd eloped with Sonia or something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never elope before midday, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't the necessary stamina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You dear! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fancy your remembering that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, come along, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the train all right; I've got the tickets and some papers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have it to ourselves, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one ever travels first on this line except the Port of London officials, and they don't get up till the afternoon." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a paper?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thanks, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm quite happy as I am. You can tell us the news if there is any." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing much in it, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How is the Navy these days? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One doesn't worry about trifles like that in Dartmoor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we're all right, replied Tommy cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Germans haven't got a torpedo to touch yours yet, and we're still a long way ahead of 'em in ships. We could wipe them off the sea in a week if they came out to fight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that's comforting, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want them sailing up the Thames till I've finished. I've no use for a stray shell in my line of business." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you what I'm going to do, Neil, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thinking it over in bed last night after you'd gone. If there is any possible sort of anchorage for a boat in this Cunnock Creek I shall leave the _Betty_ there. It's only a mile from your place, and then either Joyce or I can come down and see you without running the risk of being spotted by your charming pals. Besides, at a pinch it might be precious handy for you. If things got too hot on shore you could always slip away by water. It's not as if you were dependent on the tides. Now I've had this little engine put in her she'll paddle off any old time--provided you can get the blessed thing to start." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a brick, Tommy, I said gratefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing I'd like better. But as for you and Joyce coming down--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course we shall come down, interrupted Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall come just as soon as I can. Who do you think is going to look after you and do your cooking?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord, Joyce! I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm in much too tight a corner to worry about luxuries." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's no reason why you should be uncomfortable, said Joyce calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shan't come near you in the day, while you're working. I shall stay on the _Betty_ and cook dinner for you in the evening, and then as soon as it's dark you can shut up the place and slip across to the creek. Oh, it will be great fun--won't it, Tommy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he turned to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, Neil. We'll give you two or three clear days to see how the land lies and shove along with your work. Joyce has got to find out where George is getting that cheque from, and I mean to look up Latimer and sound him about his dinner at Parelli's. You'll be quite glad to see either of us by that time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad! I echoed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be so delighted, I shall probably blow myself up. It's you two I'm thinking of. The more I see of this job the more certain I am there's something queer about it, and if there's going to be any trouble down there I don't want you and Joyce dragged into it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shan't want much dragging, returned Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As far as the firm's business goes we're all three in the same boat. We settled that last night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So there's nothing more to be said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose there isn't." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you feeling pretty strong this morning? asked Tommy, breaking a long silence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _Betty's_ lying out in the Ray, and the only way of getting at her will be to tramp across the mud. There's no water for another four hours. We shall have to take turns carrying Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall take off my shoes and stockings and tramp too. I suppose you've got some soap on board." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll shock Leigh terribly if you do, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a beautiful respectable place nowadays--all villas and trams and picture palaces--rather like a bit of Upper Tooting." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It doesn't matter, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got very nice feet and ankles, and I'm sure it's much less immoral than being carried in turns. Don't you think so, Neil?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, I said gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No properly-brought-up girl would hesitate for a moment." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are, said Tommy, handing me a basket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You freeze on to this; it's our lunch. I want to get a couple more cans of paraffin before we go on board. There is some, but it's just as well to be on the safe side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Marine and Yachting Stores." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the _Betty_, said Tommy, pointing to a smart-looking little clinker-built craft away at the end of the line." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had her painted since you saw her last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And from what I remember, Tommy, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How deep does one sink in? she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to get this skirt dirtier than I can help." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll be all right if you hold it well up, said Tommy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you must go first, said Joyce," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What we want, he observed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's better, said Tommy with a sigh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now we're on the safe side. There's many a good yachtsman died of cold through neglecting these simple precautions. Then jumping up and looking round he added cheerfully:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall be able to sail the whole way up; the wind's dead east and likely to stay there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you'll take her out on the engine, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a nice useful ditch, but there doesn't seem to be much water in it for fancy work." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You go and get in the anchor, he said," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Neil, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had enough of this penny steamer business. Let's get out the sails and shove along like gentlemen." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's someone coming round the point in a deuce of a hurry, he remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steam launch from the look of it. Better give 'em a wide berth, or we'll have their wash aboard." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the kind of river-hog who ought to be choked, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I--" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, Tommy! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a man in the water--drowning. They've swamped his boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep her going, he shouted to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're heading straight for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll pick him up, Tommy, I said quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look after the boat: you know her better than I do." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There he is!" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let her go, Joyce!" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, you don't, Bertie, I said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not this journey." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I said encouragingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right enough, guv'nor, he gasped," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, sinking back again, he added feebly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you see them oars o' mine, you might pick 'em up." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very nice, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lipton couldn't have done it better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How's the poor man?" } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be all right when he's got a little whisky inside him, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Tommy; you catch hold, and I'll pass him over." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've had a precious narrow squeak, my friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you hadn't 'a come along as you did, sir, I'd 'ave bin dead by now--dead as a dog-fish. Then turning round he shook his gnarled fist over the _Betty's_ stern in the direction of the vanished launch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sunk me wi' their blarsted wash, he quavered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, accidents will happen, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Accidents! he repeated bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sunk you deliberately! exclaimed Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth makes you think that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mebbe I knows too much to please 'em, he muttered, shaking his head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbe they'd be glad to see old Luke Gow under the water." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You get that down your neck, said Tommy," } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now come along into the cabin, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then turning to me he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might get the sails up again while we're dressing, Neil; it's a pity to waste any of this breeze." } ]
10511	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been telling our friend Mr. Gow that he's got to sue these chaps, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He knows who they are: they're a couple of Germans who've got a bungalow on Sheppey, close to that little creek we used to put in at." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You make 'em pay, continued Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They haven't a leg to stand on, rushing past like that. They as near as possible swamped us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay! and you'd take a deal o' swampin,' mister. She's a fine manly little ship, an' that's a fact. Then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's hard on a man to lose his boat, he added quietly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you do? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your job?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, in a manner o' speakin', I haven't got what you might call no reg'lar perfession, sir. I just picks up what I can outer the river like. I rows folks out to their boats round Tilbury way, and at times I does a bit of eel fishing--or maybe in summer there's a job lookin' arter the yachts at Leigh and Southend. It all comes the same to me, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know Cunnock Creek?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cunnock Crick! repeated Mr. Gow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I should think I did, sir. My cottage don't lie more than a mile from Cunnock Crick. Is that where you're makin' for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were thinking of putting in there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there enough water?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Plenty o' water, sir--leastways there will be by the time we get up. It runs a bit dry at low tide, but there's always a matter o' three to four feet in the middle o' the channel." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This will do, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leave my bag on the seat, and go and see that my portmanteau is safely in the van. Then if you come back here I will give you threepence for your trouble." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir, thank you, he remarked breathlessly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am extremely obliged to you, sir." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, of course not," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I daresay you find these sudden changes especially trying, commented my companion. Then, with a sort of apology in his voice, he added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One can hardly help seeing that you have been accustomed to a warmer climate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been out of England, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, sir, indeed, said the old gentleman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I envy you, sir. I only wish my own duties permitted me to winter entirely abroad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has its advantages, I admitted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "For one thing, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have hardly seen a paper of any kind for a fortnight! I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there any particular news? The last interesting thing I saw was about that young fellow's escape from Dartmoor--that young inventor--what was his name?--who was in for murder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Lyndon, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neil Lyndon you mean. He is still at large." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From what I read of the case, I went on carelessly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, as a matter of fact I am scarcely in a position to discuss the subject, he said courteously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps, sir, you are unaware who I am?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, I have been so much abroad," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Permit me, sir," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was very stupid of me not to have recognized you from your pictures," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see now, sir, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can attend to this gentleman, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My own servant is somewhere on the platform. Then turning to me, he added courteously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you good-day, sir. I am pleased to have made your acquaintance. I trust that we shall have the mutual pleasure of meeting again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope we shall, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be a distinction that I shall vastly appreciate." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where to, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drive me to George," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You had better drive me slowly along Oxford Street, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to stop at one or two shops." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "West End Misfits," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? I said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you Mrs. Oldbury?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm Mrs. Oldbury; and you'd be the gentleman I'm expectin'--Dr. McMurtrie's gentleman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's right, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm Mr. Nicholson. Then, as the heavily laden taxi-man staggered up the steps, I added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And these are my belongings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This will be your sitting-room, sir, she said, turning up the gas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a nice hairy room, and I give it a proper cleaning out this morning." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is the bedroom, sir. It's what you might call 'andy--and quiet too. You'll find that a nice comfortable bed, sir. It's the one my late 'usband died in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It sounds restful," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think I'll trouble you, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have got to go out in any case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's no trouble, sir--no trouble at all. I can put you on a nice little bit o' steak as easy as anything if you 'appen to fancy it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, thanks, I said firmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want anything except some hot water and a latchkey, if you have such a thing to spare. I don't know what time you go to bed here, but I may be a little late getting back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not gen'rally in bed--not much before midnight, sir, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you should be later per'aps you'd be kind enough to turn out the gas in the 'all. I'll send you up some 'ot water by the girl." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If yer please, sir, she said, with a sniff," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury wants ter know if yer'll be likin' a barf in the mornin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can tell Mrs. Oldbury that the answer is yes, I said gravely. Then I paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gertie, sir. Gertie 'Uggins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take these, Gertie, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You needn't thank me, Gertie, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where to, guv'nor?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening, I began;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, M. Gaultier, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want a good dinner--a quite exceptionally good dinner. I have been waiting for it for some time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur is hungry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, I replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go, I replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Heaven attend your council." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fetch me, I said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what will Monsieur drink?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, I replied," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Serenely calm, the epicure may say: Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most people, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of Town. Please leave any telegrams or urgent letters at No. 4. T.M." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Vivien." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Miss Vivien in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Vivien's out. 'Ave you got an appointment?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only want to know where Mr. Morrison is, and when he's coming back. There's a notice on his door asking that any letters or telegrams should be left here, so I thought Miss Vivien might know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "she said shortly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks, I said; and then after a moment's pause I added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose if I addressed a letter here it would be forwarded?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I s'pose so," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, George, I said softly;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yer want yer barf?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do, Gertrude, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Grahnd floor wants 'is 'ot water quick." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lyndon and Marwood" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, saire. Too early for lunch, saire. 'Am-an'-eggs, saire?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, I said;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Rich. Jones, M.D., and the other" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mlle. Vivien." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Vivien" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saloon Bar." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morning, sir: what can I get you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll have a whisky-and-soda, thanks," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't happen to know any one of the name of Vivien about here, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vivien! he repeated;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, I said; then, with a coolness which would have done credit to Ananias, I added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A friend of mine has picked up a little bag or something with 'Vivien, Bond Street,' on it. He asked me to see if I could find the owner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That'll be her, I expect. Mamzelle Vivien the palmist--just across the way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she's a palmist, is she?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that's what she calls 'erself, he observed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palmist and Clairvoyante; and a smart bit o' goods she is too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I thought the police had stopped that sort of thing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The police don't interfere with her. She don't advertise or anything like that, and I reckon she has some pretty useful friends. You'd be surprised if I was to tell you some o' the people I seen going in there--Cabinet Ministers and Bishops." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds like the Athenaeum Club, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know what she charges?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he replied;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mademoiselle Vivien." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Mademoiselle at home?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you an appointment, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you will step in here, sir, I will inquire. Mademoiselle very seldom sees any one without an appointment." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you will kindly come this way, sir, Mademoiselle will see you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! she whispered;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know, I said simply;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I followed George here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What have they done to you? she moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have they done to you, my Neil? And your hands--oh, your poor dear hands!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, Joyce, I said, a little roughly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For God's sake don't do that." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must speak to Jack--now at once, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He mustn't let any one else into the flat." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, Neil, she said, stretching out her hands;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My little Joyce, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, brave little Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she sobbed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then she half pushed me back, and gazed up into my face with her blue, tear-stained eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where have you been? What have they done to you? Oh, tell me--tell me, Neil. It's breaking my heart to see you so different." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had known it was you, Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should have let George go to the devil before I followed him here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where should you go to if you didn't come to me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my poor Joyce, I said bitterly;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing of you left, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, taking my hands again and pressing them to her, she added passionately:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, tell me what it means, Neil. Tell me everything that's happened to you from the moment you got away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, I said recklessly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be dragging you into all sorts of dangers, and I shall be breaking my oath to McMurtrie, but after all that's just the sort of thing one would expect from an escaped convict." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tommy was right, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He said you'd do something wonderful. I knew it too, but oh, Neil dear, I've suffered tortures wondering where you were and what had happened." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These people--Dr. McMurtrie and the others--do you believe their story?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I said bluntly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite certain they were lying to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should they have helped you, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't the remotest idea, I admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am only quite sure that neither McMurtrie nor Savaroff are what they pretend to be. Besides, you remember the hints that Sonia gave me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Sonia! Joyce looked down and played with one of the buttons of my coat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is she--is she very pretty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She seems likely to be very useful, I said. Then, stroking Joyce's soft curly hair, which had become all tousled against my shoulder, I added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm answering questions when all the time I'm dying to ask them. There are a hundred things you've got to tell me. What are you doing here? Why do you call yourself Miss Vivien? Are you really living next door to Tommy? And George--how on earth do you come to be mixed up with George?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you everything, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joyce, I said slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to find out who killed Seton Marks. I don't suppose there is the least chance of my doing so, and if I can't I most certainly mean to wring George's neck. That was chiefly what I broke out of prison for." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, she said feverishly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She put her hands to her forehead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I hardly know where to begin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Begin anywhere, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me why you're pretending to be a palmist." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted money, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I left eight hundred pounds for you with Tommy, I exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You got that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's in the bank now. I have been keeping it in case anything happened. You don't suppose I was going to spend it? How could I have helped you then even when I got the chance?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear Joyce, I protested," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When your sentence was out, repeated Joyce fiercely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think I was going to let you stop in prison till then! She checked herself with an effort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had better tell you everything from the beginning, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't write any more to you, because I was only allowed to send the two letters, and I knew both of them would be read by somebody." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I went away after the trial. I was very ill, and Tommy took me to a little place called Looe, down in Cornwall. We stayed there nearly six months. When I came back I took the flat next to him and called myself Miss Vivien. I had made up my mind then what I was going to do. You see there were only two possible ways in which I could help you. One was to find out who killed Marks, and the other was to get you out of prison--anyhow. Of course, after the trial, it seemed madness to think about the first, but then I just had three things to go on. I knew that you were innocent, I knew that for some reason of his own George had lied about you, and I knew that there had been some one else in the flat the day of the murder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The man who was with Marks when you arrived, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you saw him go away, and there was nothing to connect him with the murder, except the fact that he didn't turn up at the trial. Sexton himself had to admit that in his speech." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was his face, said Joyce quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a dreadful face. It looked as if all the goodness had been burned out of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are about five hundred gentlemen like that in Princetown, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Sexton did everything he could, but it was quite useless. Whoever he was, the man never came forward, and you see there was no one except me who even knew what he was like. It was partly that which first gave me the idea of becoming a palmist. I thought that up here in the West End I was more likely to come across him than anywhere else. And then there were other people I meant to meet--men in the Government who might be able to get your sentence shortened. I knew I was beautiful, and with some men you can do anything if you're beautiful, and--and you don't care." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Joyce! I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she broke in passionately:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She paused, then with a little break in her voice she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I think Lord Lammersfield is rather like Tommy in some ways." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose there are still one or two white men about," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord Lammersfield used to be at the Home Office once, so of course his influence would count for a great deal. Well, he did all that was possible for me, but about six months ago he told me that there was no chance of your being let out for another three years. It was then that I made up my mind to get to know George." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You--you've got rather thorough ideas about friendship, Joyce, I said, a little unsteadily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I smoke?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have I? she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you taught me them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did you manage it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it was easy enough. I asked Lord Lammersfield to bring him here one day. You know what George is like; he would never refuse to do anything a Cabinet Minister suggested. Of course he had no idea who I was until he arrived." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been quite a pleasant surprise for him, I said grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he recognize you at once?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He had only seen me at the trial, and I had my hair down then. Besides, two years make a lot of difference." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've made a lot of difference in you, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've turned you from a pretty child into a beautiful woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it was hateful in a way, but I didn't care. I knew George was hiding something that might help to get you out of prison, and what did my feelings matter compared with that! Besides-- she smiled mockingly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He knows who you are now, of course?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him. He would have been almost certain to find out, and then he would probably have been suspicious. As it is he thinks our meeting was just pure chance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But surely, I objected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are times, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sometimes wonder why I haven't killed him, she went on slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I should have if he had ever tried to kiss me. As it is-- she laughed again in the same way--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if he doesn't try to make love to you--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she said, with a little shrug of her shoulders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's horribly frightened of you. Of course he tries to hide it from me, but I can see that ever since you escaped from prison he has been living in a state of absolute terror. His one idea at present is a frantic hope that you will be recaptured. That's partly where I come in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. He thinks that sooner or later, when you want help, you will probably write and tell me where you are." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And then you are to pass the good news on to him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He says that if I let him know at once, he will arrange to get you safely out of the country." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I love to hear you laugh again. Then, slipping her hand into mine, she went on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose he means to arrange it so that it will look as if you had been caught by accident while he was trying to help you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect so, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be out of the way again then, and you would be so overcome by gratitude--Oh, yes, there's quite a Georgian touch about it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know who it is, whispered Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's old Lady Mortimer. She had an appointment for one o'clock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what have you arranged to do? I asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no reason you should put all your people off. I can go away for the time, or stop in another room, or something." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; it's all right, whispered Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you in a minute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told Jack, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything but eggs and bacon," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't this splendid! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only this morning I was utterly miserable wondering if you were dead, and here we are having lunch together just like the old days in Chelsea." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Except for your hair, Joyce, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you remember how it was always getting in your eyes?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that! she cried;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I could do something like that, I said ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid my changes are more permanent." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor dear, she said, pressing it to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind; you look splendid as you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Won't your boy think there's something odd in our lunching together like this? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He seems a pretty acute sort of youth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Jack's all right. He was a model in Chelsea. I took him away from his uncle, who used to beat him with a poker. He doesn't know anything about you, but if he did he would die for you cheerfully. He's by way of being rather grateful to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You always inspired devotion, Joyce, I said, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you remember how Tommy and I used to squabble as to which of us should eventually adopt you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll lunch in there. It's more cheerful than this, and anyway I want to see you in the daylight." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's wonderful, Neil, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look fifteen years older and absolutely different. No one could possibly recognize you except by the way you speak." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been practising that, I said, altering my voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't have given myself away if you hadn't taken me by surprise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's so good to feel that you're safe, even if it's only for a few days. Then, letting go my arm, she crossed to the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and sit down, she went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to decide all sorts of things, and we shan't have too much time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've told you my plans, Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shrugged my shoulders and sat down on the sofa beside her;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neil, she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did I? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was rather rude." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was rather right, she answered calmly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know what the penalties are for helping an escaped convict?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Neil. For three years Tommy and I have had no other idea except to get you out of prison. Is it likely we should leave you now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what can you do, Joyce? I objected." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll only be running yourselves into danger, and--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Neil dear, she interrupted;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But suppose I refuse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then as soon as Tommy comes back tomorrow I shall tell him everything that you've told me. I know your address at Pimlico, and I know just about where your hut will be down the Thames. If you think Tommy will rest for a minute till he's found you, you must have forgotten a lot about him in the last three years." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what are your ideas, Joyce? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Except for keeping my eye on George I had no particular plan until I heard from McMurtrie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tomorrow, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, I said reluctantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will go and look up Tommy, but I can't see that it will do any good. I am only making you and him liable to eighteen months' hard labour. She was going to speak, but I went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you see, Joyce dear, there are only two possible courses open to me? I can either wait and carry out my agreement with McMurtrie, or I can go down to Chelsea and force the truth about Marks's death out of George--if he really knows it. Dragging you two into my wretched affairs won't alter them at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it will, she said obstinately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are lots of ways in which we can help you. Suppose these people turn out wrong, for instance; they might even mean to give you up to the police as soon as they've got your secret. And then there's George. If he does know anything about the murder I'm the only person who is the least likely to find it out. Why--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's Jack with the lunch, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along, Neil dear. We won't argue about it any more now. Let's forget everything for an hour,--just be happy together as if we were back in Chelsea." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got what I could, Mademoiselle, he observed, putting down his burdens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oyster patties, galatine, cheese-cakes, and a bottle of champagne. I hope that will please Mademoiselle?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It sounds distinctly pleasing, Jack, said Joyce gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But then you always do just what I want." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must go, Joyce, I said reluctantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I've got to do my hair by three, and turn myself back from Joyce into Mademoiselle Vivien--if I can. Oh, Neil, Neil; it's a funny, mad world, isn't it!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here are your dear things, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know just what he'll do, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll stare at me for a minute; then he'll say quite quietly, 'Well, I'm damned,' and go and pour himself out a whisky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's exactly what will happen. Then with a little change in her voice she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you will be careful, won't you, Neil? I know you're quite safe; no one can possibly recognize you; but I'm frightened all the same--horribly frightened. Isn't it silly of me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My Joyce, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you have got the bravest heart in the whole world." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I 'eard you a-comin', she observed, rubbing one hand down her leg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was very charming of you, Gertrude," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a letter for you in the sittin'-room. Come by the post after you'd gorn. Yer want some tea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mind a cup, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been eating and drinking all day; it seems a pity to give it up now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll mike yer one, she remarked, nodding her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury's gorn out shoppin'." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will receive either a message or a visitor at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Kindly make it convenient to be at home at that hour." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow that taxi in front, I said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you keep it in sight till it stops I'll give you five shillings for yourself." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gent's standin' on the pavement payin' 'is fare, sir, he observed in a hoarse whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thought ye might like to know before ye gets out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take the chance of lighting a cigarette." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's another gent just come up in a taxi, sir--proper toff too from 'is looks. 'E's shakin' 'ands with our bloke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he an old man? I asked quickly--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've gone inside now, Guv'nor; they won't spot ye if you want to 'op it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank ye, sir. Thank ye very much. Then, fumbling in his pocket, he produced a rather dirty and crumpled card." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't rightly know what the game is, Guv'nor, he went on in a lowered tone," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What Does the Kaiser Mean?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't drink your wine. The man with you has just put something into it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want to earn half a sovereign?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen to me, then, I said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks. I shall be still more grateful if you will look me up at the above address." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's me all right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name's Nicholson, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am an artist. I was asked to look you up by a friend of yours--Delacour of Paris." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come in, he cried, swinging open the door and gripping my hand;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm awfully glad I was in, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't have missed you for the world. How's old Delacour? I haven't seen him for ages. I never get over to Paris these days." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Delacour's all right, I answered--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have a drink, won't you? he asked;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were always a drunken old blackguard, Tommy." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'm damned!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, Tommy, I said cheerfully;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God deliver us! he observed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's left of me, Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You old ruffian! he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always said you'd do something like this. Lord alive, it's good to see you, though! Then, pulling me up out of the chair, he caught me by the shoulders and stared incredulously into my face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what the devil's happened? What have you done to yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know what I'm going to do to myself, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to get outside some of that drink you were talking about--if there's any left." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are--and I'm hanged if I don't have another one myself. I believe I could drink the whole bottle without turning a hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure you could, Tommy, I said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been blasphemous to drink out of it again in any case," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, old son, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so glad to see you that I shall start wrecking the blessed studio in a minute. For God's sake tell me what it all means." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, then, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't help it, Tommy, I finished." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't want to drag you in, but you know what Joyce is when she has once made up her mind about anything. I thought the only way was to come and see you. Between us--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And do you mean to tell me that, if it hadn't been for Joyce, you wouldn't have come! By Gad, Neil, if I wasn't so glad to see you I'd--I'd--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord, what a yarn! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a hell of a yarn!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I told you it was," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew something had happened. I knew at least that you weren't going to be taken alive; but this-- He stopped short in front of me and once more gazed incredulously into my face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't know you from the Angel Gabriel!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Except that he's clean shaven, I said. Then I paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Tommy, I went on seriously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear chap, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But there isn't a chance, I objected." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If we couldn't find out the truth at the trial it's not likely we shall now--unless I choke it out of George. Besides, it's quite possible that even he doesn't know who really killed Marks. He may only have lied about me for some reason of his own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's likely enough, but it's all my eye to say we can't help you. There are a hundred ways in which you'll want friends. To start with, all this business of McMurtrie's, or whatever his name is, sounds devilish queer to me. I don't believe his yarn any more than you do. There's something shady about it, you can be certain. When are you supposed to start work?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall know in about an hour, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forgot to tell you that when I came back from Joyce's yesterday I found a note--I suppose from them--saying that I should have a message or a visitor at five o'clock today, and would I be good enough to be home at that time. At least it wasn't put quite so politely. Then I paused." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord! I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out the card which had been sent me in the restaurant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you ever heard of a man called Bruce Latimer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bruce Latimer, he repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know _a_ Bruce Latimer?--lives in Jermyn Street. What's he got to do with it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, slightly. He belongs to the Athenians. He used to do a lot of sailing at one time, but I haven't seen him down there this year." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is he? What is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know exactly. He's in some Government office, I believe, but he's not the sort of chap who ever talks about his own affairs. Where on earth did you come across him?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're not joking? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is Gospel truth you're telling me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Humour's a bit out of my line nowadays, Tommy, I answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Dartmoor climate doesn't seem to suit it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But--but-- he stared for a moment at the card without speaking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, this beats everything, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What in God's name can Bruce Latimer have to do with your crowd?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That, I remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Find out! repeated Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll find out right enough. Do you think he guessed who it was that sent the note?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most likely he did, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was the nearest person, but in any case he only saw my back. You can't recognize a man from his back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "he said at last--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I said reluctantly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose I take it on, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What could you say?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should tell him that it was a friend of mine--an artist who was going abroad the next day--who had seen it happen, and that he'd given me the card and asked me to explain. It's just possible Latimer would take me into his confidence. He would either have to do that or else pretend that the whole thing was a joke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite sure there was no joke about it, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whether the chap with the scar belongs to McMurtrie's crowd or not, I'm as certain as I am that I'm standing here that he drugged that wine. He may not have meant to murder Latimer, but it looks uncommon fishy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It looks even fishier than you think, answered Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd forgotten for the moment, when you asked about him, but I remember now that some fellow at the Athenians once told me that Latimer was supposed to be a secret-service man of some kind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A secret-service man! I repeated incredulously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know we went in for such luxuries in this country except in novels. Do you believe it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't pay much attention at the time--I thought it was probably all rot--but this business--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, Tommy! I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Neil! he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like it; I'm hanged if I do. There's some rotten dirty work going on somewhere; that's as plain as a pikestaff. I believe these people are simply using you as a cats-paw. All they want is to get hold of the secret of this new explosive of yours; then as likely as not they'll hand you over to the police, or else.... he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you've seen the sort of crowd they are. It may be all rot about Latimer being in the secret service, but there's no doubt they tried to poison or drug him last night. Men who will go as far as that wouldn't stick at getting rid of you if it happened to suit their book." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all true enough, Tommy, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop it, Neil; chuck the whole thing and go to America. Joyce has got that eight hundred pounds of yours; and I can easily let you have another two or three. In six months' time you'll be able to make as much money as you choose. You've had three years of hell; what's the good of running any risks that you can avoid? If there's the least faintest chance of getting at the truth, you can be certain I'll do it. Don't go and smash up all the rest of your life over this cursed business. What does it matter if all the fools in England think you killed Marks? He deserved to be killed anyway--the swine! Leave them to think, and clear off to some country where you can start fresh and fair again. It doesn't matter the least where you go to, you're bound to come to the top." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said firmly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm damned if I'll go. I'll see this out if it means the end of everything." }, { "from": "human", "value": "from the clock on the mantelpiece, and looking up I saw that it was half-past four." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Gad, Tommy, I added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go from here, though. I've got to be back at Edith Terrace by five o'clock, or I shall miss this mysterious visitor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're coming back here afterwards?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I can. I haven't the least notion how long they'll keep me, but I told Joyce I would come round and let you know what had happened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, said Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be longer than you can help. I'll get in something to eat, and we'll all have supper together--you and I and Joyce, and then we can have a good jaw afterwards. There are still tons of things I want to know about." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the way, Thomas, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose the police aren't watching your place, just on the off-chance of my rolling up. They must remember you were rather a particular pal of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think so, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They may have had a man on when you first escaped, but if so he must have got fed up with the job by now. Don't you worry in any case. Your guardian angel wouldn't recognize you in that get up--let alone a policeman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If there's any justice, I said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Victoria" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was watchin' for yer, she remarked in a hoarse whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's summun wants to see yer in there. She jerked her thumb towards the sitting-room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a lidy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lady! I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sort of a lady?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ow! A reel lidy. She's got a lovely 'at." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is she young and dark and rather nice to look at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's 'er. She wouldn't give no nime, but that's 'er right enough." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! she exclaimed softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad you weren't late. I have to go away quite soon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Sonia, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know myself, she answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The doctor meant to come, but he was called away unexpectedly this afternoon, so he sent me instead. I have got a letter for you from him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I read it now?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L.J. McMURTRIE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know what this is about, of course, Sonia?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They want you to go down there at once. You must do it; you must do everything you are told just at present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ought to be able to manage that, I said grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've had plenty of practice the last three years." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must trust me, she said, speaking in that low passionate voice of hers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know that I love you; you know that I am only waiting for the right time to act. When it comes I will give you a chance such as few men have had--a chance that will mean wealth and freedom and--and--love." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a poor sort of host, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, she answered quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want anything. I must go in a minute; I have to meet my father with the car. Then, taking my hand between hers, she added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me what you have been doing yourself. Have you seen your cousin--the man who lied about you at the trial? I have been afraid about him; I have been afraid that you would kill him and perhaps be found out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's no hurry about it, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's rather pleasant to have something to look forward to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you have seen him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had the pleasure of walking behind him for a couple of miles yesterday. He looks a little worried, but quite well otherwise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you can afford to let him wait. And the girl, Joyce? Have you seen her?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "George is the only part of my past that interests me now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sonia, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What makes you think so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told them it was unnecessary!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope the report was satisfactory," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They only wanted to make certain that you had gone to Edith Terrace. I don't think you were followed after the first night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mustn't stay any longer--now, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have to meet the car at six o'clock. Here are the keys." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, Sonia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, she whispered;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lidy's gorn?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no deception, Gertrude, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can search the coal-scuttle if you like." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Oldbury sent me up to ask if you'd be wantin' dinner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Taikin' 'er, I s'pose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be quite exact, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am dining with another lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ere, she said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I ain't spendin' it on no dinner--see. I'm goin' to buy a 'at wiv it--a 'at like 'ers: d'yer mind?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do mind, I said severely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That money was intended for your inside, Gertie, not your outside. You have your dinner, and I'll buy you a new hat myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ow! she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yer mean it? Yer reely mean it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never joke, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ain't 'alf--'alf bin good to me, she jerked out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No one ain't never bin good to me like you. I'd--I'd do anyfink for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In that case, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goo'-night, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night, Gertrude," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Vivien were both" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Morrison, I believe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is fine. I never thought you'd be back as quick as this. Are things all right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should hardly go as far as that, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we seem to be getting along quite nicely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! I just want a wash, and then we'll go right in to Joyce's place. We are going to have supper there, and you can tell us all about it while we're feeding." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, he said, flinging down the towel on the sofa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joyce will be dying to hear what's happened!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that way. We've a private road now--runs along the back of the studios." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But how nice! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought you'd be here so soon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At last! she cried softly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Damn it, he said huskily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I feel all right, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he doesn't look a bit like a brigand chief. He looks splendid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose we shall get used to it, remarked Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It nearly gave me heart disease to begin with. Then, going and locking the side door, he added cheerfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I vote we have supper at once. I've had nothing except whisky since I came off the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, there's heaps to eat, said Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been out marketing in the King's Road." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a cold chicken and salad, some stuffed olives--those are for you, Neil, you always used to like them--a piece of Stilton cheese and a couple of bottles of champagne. They're all in the kitchen, so come along both of you and help me get them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the faithful Clara?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've sent her out for the evening. I didn't want any one to be here except just us three." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I keep on feeling I shall wake up in a minute, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put it off as long as possible, said Tommy gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be rotten for Neil to find himself back in Dartmoor before he'd finished his champagne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know when I shall get any more as it is, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got to start work the day after tomorrow." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's happened?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's too polite, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's too damn' polite altogether. You can see they're up to some mischief." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid they are, Tommy, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's right up to date: I've told her everything. The question is, how much has that affair got to do with us? It's quite possible, if they're the sort of scoundrels they seem to be, that they might be up against the Secret Service in some way quite apart from their dealings with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, Tommy! I exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought of that. One's inclined to get a bit egotistical when one's an escaped murderer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was Joyce's idea, admitted Tommy modestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goodness knows, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks as if there was a chance of making a big immediate profit on my invention, and that she intended me to scoop it in instead of her father and McMurtrie. I can't think of anything else." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She must be pretty keen on you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you needn't rub it in, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel quite enough of a cad as it is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're not, interrupted Joyce indignantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If she really loves you, of course she wants to help you whether you love her or not." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still, she'll expect a _quid pro quo_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it isn't love, returned Joyce scornfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What about your invention? asked Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long will it take you to work it out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, as a matter of fact, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've handled the whole thing splendidly up till now, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rather think it's the ticklish part that's coming, though. Then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here! he added suddenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a great notion. Why shouldn't we run down tomorrow in the _Betty_ and have a squint at this place of yours? There's nothing like taking a few soundings when you're not too sure about things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd love to, Tommy, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He won't, interrupted Tommy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, exclaimed Joyce, her eyes shining eagerly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go. It can't do any harm, and you might find out all sorts of useful things." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, added Tommy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three years," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're--you're something like pals, you two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a time-table somewhere here, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know 'em backwards. We'll catch the nine-five from Fenchurch Street. It's low water at eight-thirty, so that will get us in about the right time. We can leave the _Betty_ at Tilbury or Gravesend afterwards, and come back by train from there. We'll be home for dinner or supper or something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That will just do, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going out again with George in the evening. Oh, I haven't told either of you about last night--have I?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean to drop it quite soon, she said calmly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She paused a moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me last night that he was expecting to get a cheque for twelve thousand pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twelve thousand pounds!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where the Devil's he going to get it from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That, said Joyce," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what dog's trick he's up to now. He can't be getting the money straight: I know they've done nothing there the last year." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be interesting to find out, I admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the same, Joyce, I don't see why you should do all the dirty work of the firm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's my job for the minute, said Joyce cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got those out of the bank today, she said--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like your description of us as the firm, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Firm! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And may all the fools who sent Neil to prison live to learn their idiocy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Firm! I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Firm! she said softly. Then, with a little break in her voice, she added in a whisper:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you don't really want Sonia, do you, Neil?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CATCH" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! exclaimed Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were just getting the jim-jams about you. Thought you'd eloped with Sonia or something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never elope before midday, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't the necessary stamina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You dear! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fancy your remembering that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, come along, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the train all right; I've got the tickets and some papers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have it to ourselves, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one ever travels first on this line except the Port of London officials, and they don't get up till the afternoon." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a paper?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thanks, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm quite happy as I am. You can tell us the news if there is any." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing much in it, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How is the Navy these days? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One doesn't worry about trifles like that in Dartmoor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we're all right, replied Tommy cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Germans haven't got a torpedo to touch yours yet, and we're still a long way ahead of 'em in ships. We could wipe them off the sea in a week if they came out to fight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that's comforting, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want them sailing up the Thames till I've finished. I've no use for a stray shell in my line of business." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you what I'm going to do, Neil, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thinking it over in bed last night after you'd gone. If there is any possible sort of anchorage for a boat in this Cunnock Creek I shall leave the _Betty_ there. It's only a mile from your place, and then either Joyce or I can come down and see you without running the risk of being spotted by your charming pals. Besides, at a pinch it might be precious handy for you. If things got too hot on shore you could always slip away by water. It's not as if you were dependent on the tides. Now I've had this little engine put in her she'll paddle off any old time--provided you can get the blessed thing to start." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a brick, Tommy, I said gratefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's nothing I'd like better. But as for you and Joyce coming down--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course we shall come down, interrupted Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall come just as soon as I can. Who do you think is going to look after you and do your cooking?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord, Joyce! I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm in much too tight a corner to worry about luxuries." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's no reason why you should be uncomfortable, said Joyce calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shan't come near you in the day, while you're working. I shall stay on the _Betty_ and cook dinner for you in the evening, and then as soon as it's dark you can shut up the place and slip across to the creek. Oh, it will be great fun--won't it, Tommy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think so, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he turned to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, Neil. We'll give you two or three clear days to see how the land lies and shove along with your work. Joyce has got to find out where George is getting that cheque from, and I mean to look up Latimer and sound him about his dinner at Parelli's. You'll be quite glad to see either of us by that time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad! I echoed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be so delighted, I shall probably blow myself up. It's you two I'm thinking of. The more I see of this job the more certain I am there's something queer about it, and if there's going to be any trouble down there I don't want you and Joyce dragged into it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shan't want much dragging, returned Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As far as the firm's business goes we're all three in the same boat. We settled that last night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So there's nothing more to be said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose there isn't." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you feeling pretty strong this morning? asked Tommy, breaking a long silence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _Betty's_ lying out in the Ray, and the only way of getting at her will be to tramp across the mud. There's no water for another four hours. We shall have to take turns carrying Joyce." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall take off my shoes and stockings and tramp too. I suppose you've got some soap on board." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll shock Leigh terribly if you do, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a beautiful respectable place nowadays--all villas and trams and picture palaces--rather like a bit of Upper Tooting." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It doesn't matter, said Joyce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got very nice feet and ankles, and I'm sure it's much less immoral than being carried in turns. Don't you think so, Neil?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, I said gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No properly-brought-up girl would hesitate for a moment." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are, said Tommy, handing me a basket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You freeze on to this; it's our lunch. I want to get a couple more cans of paraffin before we go on board. There is some, but it's just as well to be on the safe side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Marine and Yachting Stores." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the _Betty_, said Tommy, pointing to a smart-looking little clinker-built craft away at the end of the line." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had her painted since you saw her last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And from what I remember, Tommy, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How deep does one sink in? she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to get this skirt dirtier than I can help." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll be all right if you hold it well up, said Tommy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you must go first, said Joyce," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What we want, he observed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's better, said Tommy with a sigh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now we're on the safe side. There's many a good yachtsman died of cold through neglecting these simple precautions. Then jumping up and looking round he added cheerfully:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall be able to sail the whole way up; the wind's dead east and likely to stay there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you'll take her out on the engine, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a nice useful ditch, but there doesn't seem to be much water in it for fancy work." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You go and get in the anchor, he said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Neil, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had enough of this penny steamer business. Let's get out the sails and shove along like gentlemen." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's someone coming round the point in a deuce of a hurry, he remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steam launch from the look of it. Better give 'em a wide berth, or we'll have their wash aboard." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the kind of river-hog who ought to be choked, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, Tommy! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a man in the water--drowning. They've swamped his boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep her going, he shouted to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're heading straight for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll pick him up, Tommy, I said quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You look after the boat: you know her better than I do." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There he is!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let her go, Joyce!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, you don't, Bertie, I said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not this journey." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I said encouragingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right enough, guv'nor, he gasped," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, sinking back again, he added feebly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you see them oars o' mine, you might pick 'em up." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very nice, Tommy, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lipton couldn't have done it better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How's the poor man?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be all right when he's got a little whisky inside him, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Tommy; you catch hold, and I'll pass him over." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've had a precious narrow squeak, my friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you hadn't 'a come along as you did, sir, I'd 'ave bin dead by now--dead as a dog-fish. Then turning round he shook his gnarled fist over the _Betty's_ stern in the direction of the vanished launch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sunk me wi' their blarsted wash, he quavered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, accidents will happen, I said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Accidents! he repeated bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sunk you deliberately! exclaimed Tommy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth makes you think that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mebbe I knows too much to please 'em, he muttered, shaking his head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbe they'd be glad to see old Luke Gow under the water." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You get that down your neck, said Tommy," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now come along into the cabin, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then turning to me he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might get the sails up again while we're dressing, Neil; it's a pity to waste any of this breeze." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been telling our friend Mr. Gow that he's got to sue these chaps, said Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He knows who they are: they're a couple of Germans who've got a bungalow on Sheppey, close to that little creek we used to put in at." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You make 'em pay, continued Tommy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They haven't a leg to stand on, rushing past like that. They as near as possible swamped us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay! and you'd take a deal o' swampin,' mister. She's a fine manly little ship, an' that's a fact. Then he paused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's hard on a man to lose his boat, he added quietly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you do? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your job?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, in a manner o' speakin', I haven't got what you might call no reg'lar perfession, sir. I just picks up what I can outer the river like. I rows folks out to their boats round Tilbury way, and at times I does a bit of eel fishing--or maybe in summer there's a job lookin' arter the yachts at Leigh and Southend. It all comes the same to me, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know Cunnock Creek?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cunnock Crick! repeated Mr. Gow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I should think I did, sir. My cottage don't lie more than a mile from Cunnock Crick. Is that where you're makin' for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were thinking of putting in there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is there enough water?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Plenty o' water, sir--leastways there will be by the time we get up. It runs a bit dry at low tide, but there's always a matter o' three to four feet in the middle o' the channel." } ]