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6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now's our time to try for it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try for what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To get away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean it. I found a sharp stone imbedded in the ground near to me and I have nearly sawed through my wrist-bands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My hands are free. Wait till I wiggle my fingers and get up some circulation and then we'll make our attempt--"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do, Billy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watch me,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, Adab, cautioned Diego,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're tied up hard and fast enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they were of any other nationality--yes; was Diego's reply,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You bet we are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Suppose Diego should take an idea to examine their thongs?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you suppose happened, Billy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, that some cannibal tribe that Muley-Hassan pillaged for slaves at some time has trailed him and attacked him,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the Arabs have beaten them off?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evidently, replied Billy, as the volleys died out and victorious Arab shouts were beard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark at that! It's really too bad. I'd like to have seen old Muley and his precious band driven into the river. But if they have driven off the savages they'll be thinking about chasing us."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thunder!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got to find shelter of some kind, quick, exclaimed Billy;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty dismal!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, here's where we turn back,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going to have enough water before long without our turning on the weeps."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, me for that African Waldorf-Astoria,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Looks to me like there might be snakes in here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rats, laughed Billy, although he himself felt by no means sure that at any moment some scaly monster might not descend from the roof;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are we to get wood?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's plenty of it right at the mouth of the cave. I'll get a few armfuls and in a minute we'll have things snug."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, they don't do things by halves in this country,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark! exclaimed Billy as the boys busied themselves trying to scrape out a water-course that would divert the flood from their fire. From far in the rear of the cave came a plaintive sound of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mi-ou, Mi-ou."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cats!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cats nothing, was Billy's scornful reply;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here, quick, Lathrop, he cried. The younger lad scurried back and found Billy bending over a roughly constructed nest or bed. On it lay four tiny, fuzzy yellow things. They were"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on! we've got to get out of here quick as quick as we can,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what is it, Billy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know; but I think that those are lion cubs--they look like the ones I've seen in the Bronx Zoo, was the young reporter's reply,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seesenab,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seesenah--white boys, replied the other, the latter words in fair English and in a deep guttural tone, coming forward with the head of his other spear held downward in token of peace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From where come the white boys--what do they in our land?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are lost, explained Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the idea, cried the irrepressible reporter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heap--empty--savee?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know where the dickens he means to take us, confided Billy to Lathrop as they obediently trailed along behind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just the way I feel, agreed Lathrop,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess I'll never make a mighty hunter, said Billy dolefully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dunce."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Billy, whispered Lathrop suddenly, as, after eating the stew, they watched the hunters piling their belongings into their canoes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we can't starve even if that is the reason, replied the practical Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That looks encouraging, certainly, replied Lathrop;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got to make the best of it, chimed in Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever they mean to do with us they seem determined to make us comfortable,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I-told-you-so. I-told-you-so. I--told-YOU-SO."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hum, commented Billy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great jumping horn-toads, look at that!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good land of hot-cakes, Lathrop, do you realize where we are?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the village of the Flying Men,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll never call any one a liar again as long as I live,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they can't fly upward,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, gee! if I only had a camera,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be no use telling anyone about this even if we do get out of here, they'll say that we have had a rarebit dream."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so, assented Lathrop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, replied the reporter giving himself a vicious pinch, and exclaiming"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ouch!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are these people?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very old-time people, rejoined their guide."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hunt for them, work for them. They the same as fetish."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometime elephant come--then much trouble."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frank, what do you make of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harry, I don't know what to think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't nuffin fer it but ter keep on hopin' fer the best, as the feller said when they had a rope around his neck fer horse-stealing and was about to string him up."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Billy and Lathrop have been carried off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beyond a doubt. I thought at first that the raid must have been made by cannibals, but cannibals do not carry rifles, as a rule, and look here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know there were no shells like that in our party, he went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frank, do you--you don't think, do you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That they have been killed? Frank finished for him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I do not. Unless they fell in the fight and then we should have seen their bodies down with the others by the river. No, it is my idea that they have been carried off to be sold as slaves. They would have a high market value you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But don't you think there is a chance of our getting them back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course we are going to try every means in our power, but once in the hands of that scoundrel Muley-Hassan it is doubtful if we ever see them again. There is only one thing for us to do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that is--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To get back to the Moon Mountains at once. But we have no gasoline."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that's not the most extraordinary part of it, went on Ben;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Um, big fight here,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A hundred pounds of ivory to every man of you if we get there before they have cleaned the place out,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's somebody coming,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can it be?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sikaso!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Big fool--all same woman,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Billy and Lathrop, Sikaso, tell us quick, were they with Muley-Hassan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No see Four-Eyes--no see Red Head,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ROGUE"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Big pig,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it looks as if we are in for a good exciting morning of it, remarked Billy as they trudged along beneath trees that shot up to unknown heights with great rope-like creepers dangling from their upper branches, looking like ladders leading up into"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jack in the Beanstalk-land."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arjah! he exclaimed and, though the boys did not understand his tongue, his attitude of alert attention signified that he said"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He say elephant dance, said Umbashi;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, Billy, he whispered as they moved forward,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mind a little danger, but going up against an elephant with a few tin spears looks to me like being little above the limit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cheer up, replied the irrepressible reporter,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Climb! climb!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fire-weapon, shouted Billy's friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aim between the eyes,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to do as the others are doing might cost us our heads, sagely remarked the diplomatic Billy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the holy poker you're not going to kill that old man while I can prevent it."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first man that moves I'll shoot!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not heard a white man speak for forty years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I say is true and when you hear my name you will perhaps realize that fact. I am George Desmond the American explorer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The George Desmond who was lost in 1870?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The same, was the reply in the same rusty voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But George Desmond was a man of thirty-five! protested Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I am seventy-five, went on the sad voice in the blackness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was captured by the winged men in 1870. I have kept the record of the long years on a notched stick. I never expected to hear the sound of a fellow countryman's voice again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great cats! groaned Billy to Lathrop, whose hand he held so that they could be near together in the awful blackness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My wife and my sons? Can you tell me anything of them?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is dead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And my sons?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are all alive and in business in New York, said Billy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your wife died believing to the end that you would come back. They placed her chair so that she could face the east. She died at daybreak with her eyes turned toward the sea beyond which lay Africa."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Africa! echoed the tired, disused voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Africa! it has cost me everything I had."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am selfish, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should have thanked you before this for saving my life. The priests were determined that, as I was old and useless, my life should be offered to the Sun-god to appease a sickness that has of late carried off hundreds of the Flying Men. They are a dying race, young men. As a man of science, I predict that in five years or less there will not be a single one of the once numerous tribe alive. I have studied them closely and can predict their extinction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you have not been a prisoner always?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my young friend, I have not. When first I came here I was received warmly and was paid high honors. I was allowed to record my observations in writing--fortunately I carried a supply of ink and paper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You still have the manuscript?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But now did you ever get here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is a long story, replied the captive,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he went on with a heavy sigh--"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My expedition, as you know, was never heard of again. The reason was this. In some way the Arab slave-traders--who were thick in this district then and plied their nefarious trade almost openly--gained the belief that my expedition was a pretense for a plan of espionage on them and they attacked my camp one night and slaughtered every man in it but myself. Why they did not kill me I do not know, unless it was because of the intercession of a young Arab, a mere youth and the son of the chief. I have never forgotten his name or his kindness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was his name?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Muley-Hassan!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Muley-Hassan, echoed Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, answered the old man,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They pretended to have a revelation from the Sun-god stating that if my life were sacrificed the curse that rested on the cliff-dwellers would be removed. Accordingly I was seized and chained and would certainly have died had it not been for you. But alas, young men, I fear you are doomed to forfeit your lives as the cost of rescuing an old man who is not long for this life in any event. I wish that you had been far away and had never had the brave impulse to risk your young lives for my worthless old one."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that's all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you are the bravest boys I have ever heard of, the old man was beginning when a soft"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H-s-s-s-t,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen to me, white boys, and you, too, old man, you can escape if your hearts are stout."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you listening, white boys?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then when a man comes in a short time to you with food and drink do not touch it, for it is poisoned with a deadly drug; but curb your appetite. In a short time the same man will come back to see if you have yet become insensible. Then you must be of stout heart and leap upon him and kill him. After that leave your cell and I will show you how to gain freedom."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as a reward, I ask of the fat white boy with the glass eyes his fire-weapon which assuredly contains a great fetish and of the red-headed one some of his hair for a fetish also. Of the old man I would have the round box containing the strange god that says by day and by night 'tick-tick'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He means my watch, answered the old man,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum, said Billy when he had gone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd as soon eat a mess of toads as touch any of this stuff--although it smells mighty good, he added regretfully,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we can't kill the fellow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not, replied Billy;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he is a pretty husky-looking customer, objected Lathrop;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to take our chances on that, said Billy decisively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now what I propose is, that when he comes back we all he stretched out as if the drug had overcome us and then, when I give the word, we all jump on him."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't come to for quite a while after the crack he got, remarked Billy;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how are you to get my gun, objected Billy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I already have it, Boy-of-the-eyes-of-glass, replied the engaging cliff-dweller."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I stole it from the old head-priest while he slept. But you must give it me of your own free will, or it will not be good 'fetish.'"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To my dear husband, George Desmond, on our wedding day, May 24th 1874; it read. With the signature"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mary Desmond."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have killed him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, boy-with-the-glass-eyes, exclaimed Umbashi,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A canoe with food and a jar of water is at the foot of the ladder, whispered their guide,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can we not leave the canoe and go overland round the tunnel?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That cannot be done, was the African's reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The swamps where the sleeping death (the sleeping sickness) lies are all about it. Only by way of the Tunnel of the Roaring Waters can you escape."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is one other way, began Aga,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will take it rather than risk navigation in such a torrent as you describe,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick! glass-eyes, your escape has been discovered; you haven't a moment to lose!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take this, white boys, and defend yourselves to the death rather than be recaptured,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful, for the river is swollen with the melting snows of the mountains and runs as if a million demons were in its soul to-night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now they'll have to swim if they want to get us!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we do not hear from them to-morrow, we shall be compelled to take to the air and fly to the coast,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think, then, it isn't worth while waiting if we have heard no news by then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't that, said Frank in reply,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White boys, the smoke is going to tell me things to-night, he exclaimed suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the moon reaches to the top of the sky I shall tell you news of the four-eyed one and of the red-headed."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What good does he suppose all this hocus-pocus is going to do us? muttered Harry irritably,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not so sure, remarked Frank thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have already seen something of what his skill can do and I don't mind letting him see if he can't conjure up something to give us a ray of hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh bosh, Frank, replied Harry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For my part, I've knocked around the world too much to be so cock sure of some things as some young chaps seem to be,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you see anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too soon now, wait till smoke come,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look--look, white boys, and you, old man of the sea and the forests of the far-off land, and I shall show you the magic of the sleeping heart of Africa."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, cried Sikaso harshly, as the picture faded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! cried Harry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show us more, Sikaso."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will save Four-Eyes and the Red-Headed one,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the ship that like the bird can cleave the air we will fly to them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we do not know where they are,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say that again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'll be hornswoggled!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are on the banks of a river which I know well. In the smoke I recognized it. Few men have ever navigated the Tunnel of Death and came out to tell the tale, but your great white Fetish must have looked after them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know the river?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well do I know it white boy, replied the Krooman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the days when my limbs were supple I have hunted and fished there with others of my tribe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can guide us to it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as it is dawn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far is it from here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not more than a hundred and fifty miles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can make that distance in a little more than four hours,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of a truth the magic of the white man is not as the magic of the black man, but it is good, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can the old man be whom we saw with them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no idea, rejoined Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've seen his picture some place, sometime--or some chap that looked a powerful sight like him, only younger,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid that he was seriously ill, or even dying, from the last glimpse we had of him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why could you not show us more smoke pictures Sikaso?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no more of the powder left, replied the old Krooman bending over his beloved axe and feeling the edge with a critical thumb."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moreover, the smoke does not reveal the future."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For, said Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Muley-Hassan will not fight with the few men he has left, sagely remarked old Sikaso;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the end."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there nothing we can do for you, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My papers--the history of the Flying Men."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I commend them to your care, he said, as though every word now cost him an effort."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have told me you are a newspaper reporter--you will see that they are given to the world?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read me the dedication,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To my dear wife Mary this volume is dedicated by her affectionate husband the Author."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never thought when I wrote those words I should die like this, exclaimed the dying man,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary--"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Mr. Barr, what are you doing here?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-evening, boys, a little late for dinner, I see, but I daresay you can cook me something. After dinner I want to talk to you. I have come a long way for the purpose so you can guess my business is of importance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of importance? I should say so; sputtered the irrepressible Billy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray did you come by air-ship, Mr. Barr?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, I came in my yacht the Brigand. She is almost as fast as a liner and as I came direct to this port I didn't take more than half the time occupied by you boys on the voyage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had a good trip?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, splendid; said Mr. Barr,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope he was not badly hurt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is dead,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it was very annoying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see I have had to trust since to the navigation of my mate, and while he is a careful fellow he is not much good as a navigator, and in addition to that he is a drinking man. I am afraid that he may be ashore now in my absence and indulging his taste for strong drink."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should have thought you would have forbidden him shore leave,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No good, my dear boy, that fellow would swim ashore even if the harbor were swarming with sharks, to gratify his disgusting taste."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have it here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I tell you is true, and Frank-foolishly as he admitted afterward-led the way to the cache in the forest;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many things have happened since you left New York, boys,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This paper, he continued, holding it out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me look at that paper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not my father's signature!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly what I say--that this writing which purports to be my father's was never penned by him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are making a rash assertion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am fully prepared to prove it when we get back to New York."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And in the meantime the Boy Aviators retain their claim on the ivory that we fought so hard to get,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will see all about that! he raged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a law in Fort Assini though there may not be here. I have this paper here which in the eyes of the law is a legal transfer to me of Beasley's claim on the ivory. It is mine now and I mean to have it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that is not my father's signature or writing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will be a matter for the American courts to decide,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall lay the whole matter before M. Desplaines--the consular agent of our government,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is too late to do that, retorted Mr. Barr,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you anticipate trouble? shot out Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bah, he said the next minute,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather have fair play than money,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so say we all of us,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you can show me where I am to sleep I think I will go to bed. I am very tired. We will discuss this matter further to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd like to stuff it full of barb-wire,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some mischief is in the wind."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel like I'd been boiled in the ship's boiler along with the cook's dish-rags,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder how old man Barr feels?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see it all, boys, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old scallywag drugged us--doped us--that's why we feel so badly and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Howling bob-cats! I'll bet he's stolen a march on us and got away with the ivory,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bilked, by the great hornspoon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But not beaten yet, was Frank's calm rejoinder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, boys, we've got to be stirring. Barr's got a long start of us, but we'll get him yet. Ben, you and Sikaso will take one of the Arabs' canoes--the ones they left at the river bank when they started after us--Harry, Billy, Lathrop and I will fly to the coast in the Golden Eagle II. We've just enough gasoline."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir, said Ben, touching his forelock with an old sailor trick--a token of respect involuntarily forced from him by Frank's manly promptitude in taking the bull by the horns,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're with you to the last ditch, the top of the main-top gallant, the bottom of the deep-blue sea, or the ends of the earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That goes for us too, Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And count me in on that,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not come to fight but to bargain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have beaten me at every point of the game. Diego is dead--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was bitten by an adder as we were vainly searching for the ivory, said the Arab sadly,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Permission to take my canoes and leave this cursed country forever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your canoes are where you left them the night you made the cowardly attack on our camp. You can have them all but one. That one we need."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas, sighed the Arab,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not need as many as I did when I came. Of all my followers these alone remain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-by, said the stately Arab, holding out his hand in farewell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At all events you have one good deed to look back to in your life,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You saved George Desmond's life,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was many years ago, said the Arab with a start of recognition at the name of the dead explorer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have changed since."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE BRIGAND"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, you lazy loafers! hailed Barr, who was evidently in a bad temper and also in a furious hurry, as the launch ranged alongside,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where in thunder is that mate Halsey?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went ashore last night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I suppose he is helplessly drunk now, raged Barr."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How in the name of fortune are we going to get the yacht out of here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till he gets sober,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have got to get out of here at once--now do you understand?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll give a thousand dollars to the man that will get me out of this harbor and well off to sea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it comes to that I guess I can take a chance of navigating the yacht even if I don't hold a master's ticket,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But are you a navigator?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Barr, I held a master's ticket once before drink got me and I piled my ship on a reef,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're good enough for me! shouted Barr overjoyed,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the sailors say, and Luther Barr himself signaled on the engine-room telegraph"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Full speed, ahead."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More steam,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are we making?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twelve knots,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must do better,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible! was the answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are risking the yacht now. I am not familiar with this harbor and there are shoals and reefs all about us stretching many miles out to sea. At any moment, unless we proceed cautiously, we may run aground. Five knots would suit me better than twelve."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope she has been dashed to pieces, he gritted between his teeth savagely,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've struck a reef!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A reef!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you we would if you insisted on keeping up such a speed,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you advance a step nearer I'll blow your brains out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll get even with you, Barr, as sure as my name is Al Davis,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That settles it, said the chief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are on a doomed ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boats! The boats!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay where you are, bellowed Barr, mad with rage,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To blazes with your ivory, shouted a grizzled old fireman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, if we had time we'd run you up at your own main-gaff you old land-shark,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on! the boats--the boats!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on! he shouted to the men in the boats,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm coming along."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much you ain't, yelled Davis--the man he had dealt the blow to,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am delighted to see you, he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We saw his yacht steaming out to sea, rejoined Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, you mean to pursue him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We certainly do. He has stolen the ivory that we recovered at so much risk to ourselves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't realize, of course, what your errand was, said M. Desplaines in reply,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can get you some gasoline--, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A merchant here in town recently bought a launch and as the freight boats do not touch in here often he has laid in a large supply of the fuel. I have no doubt that at my request he will be glad to sell you as much as you require."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that isn't tough luck, exclaimed Billy disgustedly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait till he gets back or else break into his warehouse,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We cannot commit burglary, said Frank,"
}
]
|
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