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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How terrible, they've broken in his skull," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where shall we take it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Mr. Hanbury's house, two blocks north, directed Robertson, and going up to one of the surgeons he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll take your place at the stretcher, for you can make yourself useful elsewhere." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How about her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid we can't do much for her, replied one of the surgeons," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But Mr. Hanbury is at home, you can't possibly have his dead body there!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell Mr. Hanbury right away! interrupted the policeman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's young Mr. Hanbury, and he's been murdered. Open the door, do you hear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you, gentlemen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is like the last act in a Third Avenue melodrama." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life has a liking for such plays," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This damned fog, said Tom Hallock, a telegraph boy, to his colleague, Johnny Kirkby, as he jumped off his bicycle in front of the Post Office," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can't see the nearest lamp-post, he blurted out after a while." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I nearly ran into a company of infantry just now that suddenly popped up in front of me out of the fog. What's going on this morning, anyhow? What are they marching out to Golden Gate for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you jay, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This war-game is a crazy scheme," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naval maneuvers? began Johnny again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I really don't know anything about them. It was in last night's _Evening Standard_. It said that the orders had been changed quite unexpectedly, and that the maneuvers would take place outside the bay to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It looks as though we'd have a long wait before daylight appears, said Tom impatiently, pointing out of the windows, while Johnny tackled the dilapidated tea-kettle in an effort to make himself an early morning drink. Tom stamped up and down the room to warm himself, remarking:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank the Lord it's Sunday and there isn't much going on, otherwise we'd all get sick chasing around with telegrams in this beastly fog." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There you are, said Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those blamed drinks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One, two, he counted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the drinks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H'm," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see that, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't they have guns?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They probably have something to do with the naval maneuvers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess it is the naval maneuvers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's queer, said Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you suppose it is? He opened the window and listened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you hear it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a great scheme of Admiral Perry's, and the fog seems to have helped him a lot. What do you think? He has surprised San Francisco. There's a notice posted downstairs stating that the Japanese have taken possession of San Francisco and that the Japanese military governor of San Francisco asks the citizens to remain quiet or the city will be bombarded from the harbor by the Japanese fleet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perry is a great fellow, there's no use trying to fool with him, said Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "San Francisco surprised by the Japs--that's a mighty fine scheme." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somebody's in a h--- of a hurry, said Harry;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, the Japanese have surprised San Francisco." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stung! cried Harry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stung! Perry is the Jap." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perry? inquired the newcomer, staring at the other four." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who's Perry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know, Mr. Allen, that there are naval maneuvers going on to-day and that Admiral Perry is to surprise San Francisco with the fleet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But there are notices at all the street-corners saying that the Japanese governor of San Francisco begs the citizens----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's where the joke comes in. Perry is going to attack the town as a Jap--that's his scheme." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't had enough sleep, cried Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If all the Japs looked like Admiral Perry, then----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must ask you to remain in this room for the present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hands up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hand that thing over here, said the Jap;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you in the name of our poor country, said the Postmaster, shaking the operator's hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thank you with all my heart; you have done a brave deed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chief of Police, Sacramento.--San Francisco attacked by Japanese fleet this morning; whole city in hands of Japanese army. Resistance impossible, as attack took place in thick fog before dawn. Help imperative." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank Heaven, that's settled." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saki!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Twenty-eight bowls, he stammered to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, twenty-eight saki-bowls; it's all right--twenty-eight saki-bowls," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How much?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much? answered the Chinaman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How much money will the great stranger pay for a meal for his illustrious stomach in Si Wafang's miserable hut? Forty kasch, forty kasch the noble son of the Rising Sun must pay for a shabby meal in Si Wafang's wretched hut." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forty kasch? I'll bring the forty kasch, most noble Si Wafang. 'I won't go home till morning, till daylight does appear,'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is an unexpected ally," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloo! shouted a roundsman to a policeman who had been leaning against a lamp-post half asleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Halloo, Tom, wake up! Who are those fellows over there; where the deuce are they going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess they are some of our boys taking part in the naval maneuver. You know, Perry's going to attack us to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I didn't know that, replied the roundsman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're great boys, all right; up and about at four in the morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose that's Perry now, said Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he can't do much in this beastly fog, anyway." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So long, Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hands up! came the command in a low tone, and a few seconds later he was bound and gagged. As he lay on the ground, he saw a whole battalion of foreign soldiers half in the court-yard before the barracks, and vague thoughts of naval maneuvers and surprises, of Admiral Perry and the Japs went through his mind, till all at once the notion" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Japs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have just met launch of a Japanese warship off Seal-Rocks; what does it mean?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, you shrimp, you want our fish, do you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Naval Correspondent," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Naval Correspondent" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A box of optical instruments, says the customs officer, making a blue check." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A box of optical instruments, repeats the overseer, making a mark with his moistened pencil-stump:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Careful! he adds, as a workman is on the point of tipping the heavy box over. Then the hook of the crane seizes the loop in the steel rope and with a stuttering rattling sound the wheels of the windlass set to work, the steel wire grips the side of the box tightly, the barrel beside it is pushed aside, and a wooden case enclosing a piece of cast-iron machinery is scraped angrily over the slippery cobble-stones. Heave ho, heave ho, chant the men, pushing with all their might. To the accompaniment of splashing drops of oily water, puffs of steam, groans of the windlass and the yells and curses of the stevedores, the whole load, including the box of optical instruments, at last disappears in the hold of the ship. It is placed securely between rolls of cardboard next to some nice white boxes filled with shining steel goods. But when the noise up above has died down, when with the approach of darkness the rattling of the chains and the groaning of the windlasses has ceased, when only the slow step of the deck-watch finds an echo--then it can be heard. Inside the box you can hear a gentle but steady tick, tick, tick. The clock-work is wound up and set to the exact second. Tick, tick, tick it goes. When the ship is far out at sea and the passengers are asleep and the watch calls out:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lights are burning. All's well!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is the Pacific fleet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Magdalen Bay to Commander-in-chief of Squadron, May 7, 8h. 25. A cruiser and two torpedo-boats sighted four miles N.W. with course set towards Magdalen Bay; uncertain whether friend or foe. Captain Pancoast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Magdalen Bay to establish immediate connection by wireless with cruiser and torpedoes; ascertain whether they belong to blue or yellow party." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This looks like bad weather, he said to himself, while waiting for the answer. The increased rocking of the ship showed that the sea was getting rougher. A black pencil, which had been lying in the corner between the wall and the edge of the table, suddenly came to life and began rolling aimlessly about. The officer picked it up and drew a map of the location of Magdalen Bay as far as he could remember it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Four miles, he murmured," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magdalen Bay to Commander-in-chief of Squadron, May 7, 8 h. 53: Approaching cruiser, probably yellow armored cruiser _New York_; does not answer call. Captain Pancoast." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take care of Kxj31mpTwB8d--951SR7--J, warned the strip in its mute language; then nothing further; complete silence reigned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean? said the officer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magdalen Bay, repeat message!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you understand question?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is Sergeant Medlow. I've just received from Magdalen Bay the message now on the way to the bridge: 'Take care of--' then the connection was cut off.... All right, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter with the apparatus?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It won't work, sir; it stopped in the middle of a sentence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take a new coherer!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've tried four." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Probably a breakdown," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, probably a breakdown," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But he may be going to surprise Magdalen Bay, Admiral," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, replied the Admiral, rather sharply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All attempts to establish connection with Magdalen Bay have failed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, let it go, grumbled Admiral Perry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crane seems to have deprived us of Magdalen Bay, but the commander of the _New York_ will reap a fine reprimand from Washington for this." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing to be seen of our cruisers, he said to the navigating officer of the squadron," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose this is the last remnant of the spring storms, he said to his navigating officer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A wireless message from the cruiser _California_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of this Magdalen Bay affair? asked the admiral of the captain as the latter entered the admiral's cabin;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In my opinion, was the answer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, said the admiral," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In time of war, yes, answered the captain eagerly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then the best plan, said the admiral in a thoughtful tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That would certainly be the correct thing to do, answered Farlow, adding," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, he shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The navigator is seeing ghosts, sir; he reports that Admiral Crane with the yellow fleet has been sighted to windward three knots off! He hurried towards the door and there ran plumb against the orderly, whom he asked sharply:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The navigator, Lieutenant Higgins, reports that several ships have been sighted to starboard three miles ahead. Lieutenant Higgins thinks...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lieutenant Higgins thinks, of course, that it is Admiral Crane's yellow fleet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, answered the orderly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my oilskins!..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, Mr. Higgins, he called, wiping the water from his eyes and mustache," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear ships for action!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we go up to the conning-tower?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, we'll stay here, said the latter, carefully examining the yellow fleet through his glass." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you make out which ship the first one is?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it's the _Iowa_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What did you say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No such thing, the _Iowa_ is much smaller and has only one mast. The ship over there also has an additional turret in the center." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it's not the _Iowa_, corroborated the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those ships are painted gray, too, not white like ours. It's not the yellow fleet at all, interrupted the admiral," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He scarcely heard the words of the flag lieutenant who called out to him:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the Japanese _Satsuma_, Togo's _Satsuma_!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hostile attack!... Japanese. We've been surprised!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Armor-piercing shells, quickly!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two hundred and fifty yards over," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The shell burst at a thousand yards! called the lieutenant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What miserable fuses!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bad shot, came down reproachfully through the telephone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am, but they're no good, they won't work," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, he said aloud, but added under his breath, suppressing an oath:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We mustn't let the men notice there's anything wrong, for the world!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bad shot, take percussion fuses!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what these are supposed to be, replied the lieutenant in a terrible state of excitement;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fire at the forepart of the _Satsuma_ with shrapnel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shrapnels from below! ordered the lieutenant, and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aim at the forepart of the _Satsuma_, 1950 yards!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good shot, came from above;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Four degrees higher!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet correct, he grumbled;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Use higher elevation in turrets. The _Connecticut_ has a leak and is listing to starboard, said the telephone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three degrees higher!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Splendid, cried the lieutenant;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shoot me; deliver me from my torture! rang out the cry of the lieutenant's dying friend behind him; and there before him, right against the wall, lay the sailor Ralling, that fine chap from Maryland who was one of the men who had won the gig-race at Newport News; now he stared vacantly into space, his mouth covered with blood and foam." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shot in the lung!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It went up in a slanting direction and then, ... it steered straight for the enemy's balloon...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Reverend, and who could argue until long after midnight over the most profound Biblical problems, that same Johnny Besser, who was perpetually on the water-wagon. There he sat, banging away as hard as he could on the piano! Meade rushed at him angrily and seizing him by the arm cried:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Johnny, what are you doing here? Are you crazy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Brown's mother she likes whisky in her tea, As we go rolling home. Glory, Glory Hallelujah." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watch over the flag; it must not be struck!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't die here in this smoky steel box, said the admiral to himself;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't drown here like a mouse in a trap. There was nothing more to be done down here anyway, for most of the connections had been cut off, and so Admiral Perry turned over the command of the _Connecticut_ to a young lieutenant with the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep them firing as long as you can. Then murmuring softly to himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's of no use anyhow, he crept through a narrow bulkhead-opening to a stairway and groped his way up step by step. Suddenly he touched something soft and warm; it groaned loudly. Heavens! it was a sailor who had dragged his shattered limbs into this corner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor fellow, said the admiral, and climbed up, solitary and alone, to the deck of his lost ship. The din of battle sounded louder and louder, and at last he reached the deck beneath the rear bridge. A badly wounded signalman was leaning against a bit of railing that had remained standing, staring at the admiral with vacant eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are the signal-halyards still clear? asked Perry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then signal at once: Three cheers for the United States!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three cheers for the United States! Admiral Perry drew his sword, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Star-Spangled Banner," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Longstreet!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Longstreet, did it all really happen, or have I been dreaming?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Longstreet, he began again more urgently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our poor, poor country," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The _Nebraska_ went down at about six o'clock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the _Georgia_ a little earlier, said Winstanley;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The torpedo boat _Farragut_ fished us up after the battle. We are on board the hospital ship _Ontario_ with about five hundred other survivors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what has become of the rest of our squadron?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, won't you come across, rose and fell the oily melody, keeping time with the action of the piston-rods of the engine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, won't you come across, repeated the walls, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, won't you come across," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another attack of fever." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, won't you come across," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, won't you come across," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are we going, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know; somewhere or other; it doesn't matter much where." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If possible, to San Francisco, was the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm afraid the Japanese will be attacking the coast-batteries by this time, and besides that chap over there seems to have his eyes on us," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The cruiser yonder wants to know our name and destination." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Signal back: United States hospital ship _Ontario_ making for San Francisco," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "United States hospital ship _Ontario_ with five hundred wounded on board relies on protection of ambulance-flag." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, old man, how are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty miserable, Longstreet; what's going to become of us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, old chap, tell me the truth. Where are we bound to--what's going to become of us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're going to San Francisco," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the enemy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the enemy, Longstreet, where's the enemy? We mustn't fall into his hands!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Brace up, Winstanley, said Longstreet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, anything but that! I'd rather be thrown overboard than fall into the hands of the Japanese! It's all over, there's no use struggling any more!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Longstreet, he cried, with eyes burning with fever," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Longstreet, promise me that you'll throw me overboard rather than give me up to the Japanese!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Winstanley, no; think of our country, remember that it is in sore need of men, of men to restore the honor of the Stars and Stripes, of men to drive the enemy from the field and conquer them in the end." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Longstreet, hand me a weapon of some sort; that fellow----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, I am sorry for the circumstances which compel me to ask you to give me your names and ships. Rest assured that a wounded enemy may safely rely on Japanese chivalry. If you will follow the example of all the other officers and give your word of honor not to escape, you will receive all possible care and attention in the hospital at San Francisco without any irksome guard. Will you be so good as to give me your names?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lieutenant Longstreet of the _Nebraska_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Winstanley, commander of the _Georgia_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you give me your word of honor?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Longstreet, nursed in San Francisco, is that what the Jap said? Then San Francisco must be in their hands." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-day must avenge Kanagawa. As Commodore Perry then knocked with his sword at the gate of Nippon, so will we to-day burst open San Francisco's Golden Gate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain, we are now eight miles from the Golden Gate; it's a wonder the Japs haven't discovered us yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should think they would station their cruisers as far out as this," }, { "from": "human", "value": "After all, why should they? asked Wilson," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe we'll be allowed to enter the harbor at night, began the first mate again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but if the engines won't work properly, how the devil can they expect us to be punctual!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look, cried Wilson, pointing to the blinding flash of a searchlight in front of them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll keep right on our course, said the captain rather hurriedly to the man at the helm," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is my first mate, Hornberg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An Englishman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, a German." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A German? repeated the Jap slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Germans are friends of Japan, are they not?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is my second mate, Wilson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An Englishman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, an Englishman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I seem to know you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not impossible, said Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been navigating Japanese waters for several years." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed? asked the lieutenant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On several lines; I know Shanghai, I have been from Hongkong to Yokohama in tramp steamers, and once during the Russian war I got to Nagasaki--also with a cargo of machinery, he added after a pause." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was a dangerous voyage, for the Russians had just sailed from Vladivostock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With a cargo of machinery, repeated the Japanese officer, adding," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fairly so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you any relatives in the American Navy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I know of, answered Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wilson, you will please take charge of the ship under the direction of the pilot brought along by the lieutenant. Mr. Hornberg's watch is up," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Wilson, I am to take your place at the helm. The captain would like to see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, answered Wilson curtly. The captain and the Jap were sitting together in the cabin over a glass of whisky." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The lieutenant, said the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very slightly, answered Wilson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was only there three days." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were there any Japanese ships at Esquimault when you were there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, there was a Japanese cruiser in dock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What was her name?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't say, I don't know the names of the Japanese ships." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you sit down and join us in a glass of whisky?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What did you do to your arm?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thrown against the railing in a storm and broke it on the way from Shanghai to Victoria." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know Lieutenant Longstreet of the American Navy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know no one of that name in the American Navy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You told the captain that you've been in San Francisco often, began the Jap again;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On no line, I was at San Francisco for pleasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The last time was two years ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I see your papers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Curious, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could have sworn that I've seen you before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why have you two names?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have only one," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Winstanley and Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm very sorry, said Wilson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I must be mistaken," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder why we have a wireless apparatus on board?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It never occurred to me until you mentioned it. I imagine it's merely an experiment of the owners," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must be about two miles from the Golden Gate by this time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's possible, said Hornberg," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can we enter the harbor by night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir, whenever you like, under our pilotage you can enter the harbor by day or night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll see directly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you'll see the channel, said the pilot to Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, captain, you'll see something wonderful now, said the lieutenant, as he came on the bridge with the captain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll open your eyes when you see us steering through the mines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's an anchored light-buoy, explained the lieutenant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And indeed, about a hundred yards ahead a second shining circle of light appeared on the water, and further on a whole chain of round disks was seen to make a turn to the left and then disappear in the distance. The same kind of a line appeared on the right. Half an hour later three bright red reflections, looking like transparent floating balls of light filled with ruby-red, bubbling billows, marked a spot where the helm had to be turned to port in order to bring the ship through a gap in the line of mines. Thus the _Port Elizabeth_ reached San Francisco early in the morning. She did not make fast at the quay, but at the arsenal on Mare Island, her crew then being given shore leave. When the last man had gone, the _Port Elizabeth_, unloaded her cargo of machinery and rails which, in the hands of the Chinese coolies, was transformed into gun-barrels, ammunition and shells in the most marvelous manner." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One country, one people, one God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak of it, but think of it always, was the watchword given out by the little Jewish lawyer in the president's chair of France, when the longing for revenge filled the soul of every Frenchman during the slow retreat of the German army after its victorious campaign;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak of it, but think of it always," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak of it, but think of it always" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "died out as soon as Japan had" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak of it, but think of it always!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak of it, but think of it always!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "German danger" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloo, Taney, called out an acquaintance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know? How's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm done for." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're not the only one; Wall Street is a dangerous vortex." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm absolutely cleaned out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know what I'm going to do, James Harrison? asked Taney, with bitter irony in his voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares. I imagine I can still learn that much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, that's the way the wind blows!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What did you think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was pretty bad, I suppose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bad? It was hell----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were you in Wall Street on Monday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and on Tuesday, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And now you want to learn paperhanging?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does it have to be that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you suggest anything else?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you see this?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A volunteer button." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have I got to that point? The last chance, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not the last, but the first!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At any rate it's better than paperhanging. Look here, Taney, you'll only worry yourself to death. It would be far more sensible of you to take the bull by the horns and join our ranks. You can at least try to retrieve your fortunes by that means." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Taney, which is it to be, paperhanging or--," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll come with you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have a friend over there, said Harrison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In a month? That suits me; I have no affairs to arrange." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Taney, said Harrison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I'll come, I certainly shall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Star Spangled Banner" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There go the rats who have deserted the sinking ship, said Randolph Taney bitterly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're coming, father, they're in the harbor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're coming? asked old Engelmann in a serious tone of voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many of them are there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At least a whole battalion, I'm told," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then it's all over, of course. Just twenty-four hours too soon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing to be heard yet; but they'll have to pass here to get to the waterworks, he said. Then he joined his family, and turning to his wife, said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Courage, mother! Arthur will do his duty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if anything should happen to him--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then it will be for his country, and his death and that of his comrades will give us an example of the sacrifices we must all make until the last of the yellow race has been driven out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When was it to be? Tell me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-night, said the father," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, there they are, the deuce take 'em," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Courage, mother! comforted the old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If they only stay at the waterworks all may yet be well." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wouldn't it be possible to warn Arthur?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Warn him? said Engelmann, shrugging his shoulders," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But couldn't we make it a go after all? asked the youngest son thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The boxes are all ready, and can be packed in half an hour. We have three hundred men and thirty wagons. The latter were to be loaded at eleven o'clock to-night. And then at them with our revolvers! There aren't more than twenty men at the station, he went on with sparkling eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At eleven o'clock sharp the telegraph-wire to the waterworks will be cut, also the wires to all the stations; then let them telegraph all they like. The minute the train arrives, the engine will be switched to another track and then backed in front of the train. Meanwhile the boxes will be packed in the cars and then we'll be off with the throttle wide open. At each station a car will be dropped, and wagons will be waiting to receive their loads and get away as fast as the horses can pull them. Safe hiding-places have been found for all the boxes, and whatever hasn't been captured by to-morrow morning will certainly never fall into the enemy's hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is the telegraph-wire to the waterworks?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's my job, to cut the wire just before the arrival of the train," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Richard, cried the mother in a horrified voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, mother, you didn't suppose I'd stand and look on while Arthur was risking his life, did you? What would they think of us on the other side if we were to hesitate at such a time as this? 'Germans to the front,' that's our slogan now, and we'll show the people in Washington that the German-Americans treat the duties of their new country seriously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, my boy, and my blessing go with you! So you are to cut the telegraph-wire?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, father. We happen to know where it is. The Japs were of course clever enough to lay it underground, but we have discovered it under the paving near Brown & Co.'s store. We dug through to it very carefully from the cellar, and so as to make quite sure in case they should notice anything out of the way at the waterworks, we attached a Morse apparatus to the wire in the cellar. In case they suspect anything at the works and begin to telegraph, I'm to work the keys a little so that they won't know the wire is cut. In addition we laid a wire to the station last night, which will give a loud bell-signal in case any danger threatens." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Akoki, it is time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lamps!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halloo, Dick, I call that a good job!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick, where's Forster?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Off to the engine! Into the cars, quick! Are you ready? Is anyone missing? Arthur! Where's Arthur?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, Dick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good work, Arthur, that's what I call good work, said the leader;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've made it easy for us, said Forster," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're off," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bridges?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, the bridges," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Arthur Engelmann?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where can he be?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry up!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, wait a minute! We'll have to take this fellow along," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Put him down! We'll have to be off! We've got plenty of men, but not enough guns." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must take him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, we're off!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll wait, said Arthur Engelmann, seizing Dick's arm;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't help it, you'll have to leave him behind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I'll stay too!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, if you want to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Japanese! roared Fighting Dick;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let her go, Forster! Let her go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forster, said Dick suddenly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The bridges are burning, Fighting Dick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's just what I thought, the damned yellow monkeys! Never mind, we'll have to go on. Do you think you can get the engine across?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The bridges will hold us all right. It would take half a day to burn the wood through and we'll be there in ten minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've poured petroleum over the wood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have to get across, answered Fighting Dick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Press hard against the front, screamed Forster;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One minute more, yelled Forster," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! cried Forster;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps they'll be able to unload the car after all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, said one of her daughters," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said the father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we go down and get something to eat first, Ben?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The steamers from Havana ought really to be in sight by this time, answered Ben Wood;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, yes, on the twenty-sixth. But some of those transport-ships palmed off on us are the limit and can't even make ten knots an hour. Their rickety engines set the pace for the fleet, and unless the _Olympia_ wishes to abandon the shaky old hulks to their fate, she must keep step with them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that's not the _Flying Dutchman_, they're ships, he remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ships are coming over there, sir, as he pointed in the direction which Spencer had indicated. Lieutenant Ben Wood stepped to the stationary telescope in the light-room below the place for the lamps, and started to adjust the screws, but the heat of the metal, which had become red-hot beneath the burning rays of the sun, made him start:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hot hole," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gibson, cried Lieutenant Wood suddenly from his place in the light-room, his voice sounding muffled on account of the small space," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those ships certainly don't belong to our fleet," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I didn't know that our English friends owned the only ships of that caliber, and that our own are unhappily still in process of equipment at Newport News, I should say that those were two _Dreadnoughts_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess you've had a sunstroke," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sunstroke or no sunstroke, those are two _Dreadnoughts_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where can they come from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There, do you see, to the left, just appearing on the horizon, that's our transport fleet--eight--ten ships; the one in front is probably the _Olympia_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twelve ships, counted the keeper," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There they are then, said Ben Wood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall we eat? asked Spencer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll gladly dispense with the grub at Signor Morrosini's to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell you what, said the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are! said Spencer, peering down over the edge of the railing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our cutter is down there," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, Dodge! shouted Spencer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're going over to one of the transport-ships meanwhile, he added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gibson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, Ben!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't, I wish you'd come up again for a minute, I'm sure something's wrong!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose they're saluting," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heavens, he shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now the _Olympia_ is beginning to shoot, cried Ben Wood." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that shot struck the turret. Great, that must have done some good work! But what in Heaven's name are we going to do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All asleep over there as usual! Ah, at last!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Halloo! what's up?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is the light-house. Notify the commander at Corpus Christi at once that the Japanese are in the roads and are attacking the transports." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are, I tell you. Can't you hear the shots? he shouted into the instrument." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are two large Japanese ships out in the roads shooting at the _Olympia_ and the transports. Impossible or not, it's a fact!" } ]