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27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want the dollars badly, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The cattle-men have cut off our credit at the railroad stores, and there are two or three of the Englishmen who have very little left to eat at the hollow. You have seen what we have sent out from Fremont, and Muller has been feeding quite a few of the Dutchmen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You heard it, Larry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I may have been mistaken, but it was quite like a rifle shot."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, Larry. There--is--somebody coming. It will be the man with dollars, and I don't mind admitting that I'll be glad to see him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quilter is not come? I his horse in der stable have not seen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Grant sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would pass your place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He come in und der supper take. Why is he not here? I, who ride by der hollow, one hour after him start make."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm half afraid we'll have to do without those dollars, Mr. Muller. Shall I go round and roll the boys up, Larry?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! said the Teuton quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We der trail pick up?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry, he said sharply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Grant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only one left Muller's."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The last man was riding a good deal harder than the other fellow."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ride wide and behind me, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going to find one of them inside of five minutes."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get down, boys, and light the lantern. Quilter's here,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said somebody, with a suspicion of hoarseness,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One shot, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't have been more than two or three yards off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get through, said the bushman grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The man who did it can't have more than an hour's start of us, any way, and from the trail he left his horse is played out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have got to bring out a sledge for him somehow, Muller, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boys, the man who shot him has left nothing, and the instructions from our other executives would be worth more to the cattle-men than a good many dollars."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the big bushman,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should be very sorry for any of the cattle-boys we came upon to-night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heading for the river! he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll find him in the timber. He can't cross the ice."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want everything you took from Quilter, the papers first, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Light that lantern, Jake, and then the rest stand round. I want you to notice what he gives me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know that writing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess there's no use in me objecting. You'll find them there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Count them, said Grant to the other man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two of you look over his shoulder and tell me if he's right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, that's right, boys; it's quite plain, even if we hadn't followed up his trail. Those dollars and documents were handed Quilter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up and ride, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll send us six men from each of the two committees. We'll be waiting for them at Boston's when they get there. Now, there's just another thing. Look at the magazine of that fellow's rifle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Usual 44 Winchester. One of them gone, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wouldn't have started out after Quilter without his magazine full."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess that's convincing, but we'll bring the rifle along,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have a fair trial, but if you have any defence to make you had better think it over. You'll walk back to Hanson's, Jake."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said the prisoner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess it wouldn't be much use. Hadn't you better get through with it? I don't like a fuss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The thing's quite plain, said one of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He killed Quilter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's nothing that would warrant our showing any mercy, but if you have anything to urge we'll listen now. It's your last opportunity. You were heading for one of the cattle-men's homesteads?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going to talk, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I can see your faces, and that's enough for me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only one thing, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It has to be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess you needn't tell me, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When is it to be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow, said Grant, and it seemed to Breckenridge that his voice came from far away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the town--as soon as there is light enough to see by."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shake it off, Larry. You couldn't have done anything else,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Grant, with a groan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, I could have wished this duty had not been laid on me."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For murder and robbery. Take warning! Anyone offending in the same way will be treated similarly!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite fancied we would have been home before it was dark, and my father would be just savage if he knew we were out alone, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, he wouldn't have let us go if he had been at Cedar."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then one could have wished he had been at home,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's quite right. Folks are not apt to worry much over the things they don't know about,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not your father I was sorry for, Flora Schuyler said sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sod is too hard for fast riding, and it will be 'most an hour yet before we get home. I wish we were not alone, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was so convenient once! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whenever I wanted to ride out I had only to send for Larry. It's quite different now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no doubt Mr. Clavering would have come,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, Hetty agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, I'm beginning to fancy you were right about that man. Like a good many more of them, he's quite nice at a distance; but there are men who should never let anyone get too close to them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have had quite a few opportunities of observing him at a short distance lately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could wish my father didn't seem quite so fond of him. Oh--there's somebody coming!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't we better ride on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty;"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't you better pull up and get down? it said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not much use at tracking, but somebody has been along here a little while ago. You see, there are only three of us!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're homesteaders, and they've found our trail,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think you need worry, Breckenridge. There were only two of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Larry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is late for you to be out alone. You are riding home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Grant quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid you will have to put up with our company. There are one or two men I have no great opinion of somewhere about this prairie. This is Mr. Breckenridge, and as the trail is rough and narrow, he will follow with Miss Schuyler. I presume you don't mind riding with him, although, like the rest of us, he is under the displeasure of your friends the cattle-barons?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know enough of this trouble to make sure who is right, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I should never be prejudiced against any American who was trying to do what he felt was the work meant for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Grant, with a little laugh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Breckenridge will feel sorry that he's an Englishman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be frank, I came out because my friends in the old one seemed to fancy the same thing of me. When they have no great use for a young man yonder, they generally send him to America. In fact, they send some of them quite a nice cheque quarterly so long as they stay there. You see, we are like the hedgehogs, or your porcupines, if you grow them here, Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are young, or you wouldn't empty the magazine all at once in answer to a single shot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Breckenridge,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dusk is kind. Any way, I know I am years older than you. There are no little girls in this country like the ones you have been accustomed to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Breckenridge,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a good deal to thank you for, Hetty, and--for you know I was never clever at saying the right thing--I don't quite know how to begin. Still, in the old times we understood just what each other meant so well that talking wasn't necessary. You know I'm grateful for my liberty and would sooner take it from you than anybody else, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't it be better to forget those days? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is very different now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't easy, said Grant, checking a sigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'most fancied they had come back the night you told me how to get away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, she said chillingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Grant drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I did. I told you there were some men around I would sooner you didn't fall in with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then they must be your partisans. There isn't a cattle-boy in this country who would be uncivil to a woman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I was quite sure. Still, there are men coming in who don't care who is right, and only want to stand in with the men who will give them the most dollars or let them take what they can. We have none to give away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry, the girl said hotly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. But they will most of them quite naturally go over to you, which will make it harder for us to get rid of them. We have no use for men of that kind in this country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? said the girl scornfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I fancied they would have come in quite handy--there was a thing you did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You heard of that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, very coldly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a horrible thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you ever see me hurt anything when I could help it in the old days, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. One has to be honest; I remember how you once hurt your hand taking a jack-rabbit out of a trap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And how you bound it up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, after the work you have done with it, that I should care to do that now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are affairs you should never hear of and I don't care to talk about with you, Grant said, very quietly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The man was your friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Grant slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had to do the square thing--that and nothing more; but if we had let that man go, he would, when the chance was given him, have done what he did again. Well, it was--horrible; but there was no law that would do the work for us in this country then."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand. Her voice was very gentle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There must be a good deal of meanness in me, or I should have known you only did it because you are a white man, and felt you had to. Oh, of course, I know--only it's so much easier to go round another way so you can't see what you don't want to. Larry, I'm sorry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The only thing you ever do wrong, Hetty, is to forget to think now and then; and by and by you will find somebody who is good enough to think for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would have to be very patient, and the trouble is that if he was clever enough to do the thinking he wouldn't have the least belief in me. You are the only man, Larry, who could see people's meannesses and still have faith in them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a blunderer who has taken up a contract that's too big for him, Grant said gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never told anyone else, Hetty, but there are times now and then when, knowing the kind of man I am, I get 'most sick with fear. All the poor men in this district are looking to me, and, though I lie awake at night, I can't see how I'm going to help them when one trace of passion would let loose anarchy. It's only right they're wanting, that is, most of the Dutchmen and the Americans--but there's the mad red rabble behind them, and the bitter rage of hard men who have been trampled on, to hold in. It's a crushing weight we who hold the reins have got to carry. Still, we were made only plain farmer men, and I guess we're not going to be saddled with more than we can bear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry, she said softly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that quite out of the question now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry, but, Larry, can't you understand? You are leading the homestead-boys, and my father the cattle-barons. First of all I've got to be a dutiful daughter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, he agreed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it can't last for ever, and we can only do the best we can. Other folks had the same trouble when the boys in Sumter fired the starting gun--North and South at each other's throats, and both Americans!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the Englishman telling you, Flo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was almost admitting that the girls in this country are as pretty as those they raise in the one he came from."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Breckenridge,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been very good, and I am sorry I can't ask you to come in, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, I don't know that it's all our fault; we are under martial law just now."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nearly through?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can give you a notion of how you stand, right now, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You want me to be quite candid?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, said Clavering, with a smile of indifference."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm in a tight place, Hopkins?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you are--any way, if you go on as you're doing. You see what I consider it prudent to write off the value of your property?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why have you whittled so much off the face value?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just because you're going to have that much taken away from you by and by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the homestead-boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the legislature of this State. The law is against you holding what you're doing now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We make what law there is out here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Hopkins, coolly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess you're not going to do it long. You know the maxim about fooling the people. It can't be done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't you talking like one of those German socialists?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the contrary. I quite fancy I'm talking like a business man. Now, you want to realize on those cattle before the winter takes the flesh off them, and extinguish the bank loan with what you get for them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That would strip the place, and I'd have to borrow to stock again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd have to run a light stock for a year or two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wouldn't suit me to do anything that would proclaim my poverty just now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you'll have to do it by and by. The interest on the bond is crippling you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well. Clavering lighted another cigar."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you to be straight. Go right on. Tell me just what you would do if the place was in your hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sell out those cattle and take the big loan up. Clear off the imported horses and pedigree brood mares. You have been losing more dollars than many a small rancher makes over them the last few years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like good horses round the place,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The trouble, said Hopkins,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I gave you a bundle of bills so you could find it out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you had better burn them when I am through. I'll mention one or two items. One hundred dollars for flowers; one thousand in several bills from Chicago jewellers! The articles would count as an asset. Have you got them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't, said Clavering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were for a lady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Hopkins,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I hadn't been so abominably careless you wouldn't have seen those bills. I meant to put them down as miscellaneous and destroy the papers. Well, I've done with that extravagance, any way, and it's to hear the truth I'm paying you quite a big fee. If I go on just as I'm doing, how long would you give me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two years. Then the bank will put the screw on you. The legislature may pull you up earlier, but I can tell you more when I've squared up to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess that's about enough. But I'll leave you to it now, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's quite likely I'll have got out of the difficulty before one of those years is over."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With Torrance to back me it might be done, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liberty is sweet, but I don't know that it's worth at least fifty thousand dollars!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go in and give the man his dollars, Larry, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have had about as much worry as is good for you to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've no use for shutting my eyes so I can't see a thing when I know it's there."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't quite know. She got sick 'most two weeks ago, and talks of a pain that only leaves her when she's sleeping. One of the boys drove in to the railroad for the doctor, but he's busy down there. Any way, it would have taken him 'most a week to get here and back, and I guess he knew I hadn't the dollars to pay him with."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you can't let her lie here without help of any kind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said the man slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have got to take this up, Larry. She looks ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have friends down yonder who will send that doctor out, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here are your dollars from the fund. Ten of them this time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you want me to take more than five you'll have to show your book, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been finding out how you work these affairs, Larry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, don't you make yourself a consumed ass, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You want those dollars considerably more than we do, and we've got quite a few of them doing nothing in the bank. That is, Larry has."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's no use, Breckenridge. I know the kind of man he is. I'm going to send Miss Muller here, and we'll come round and pound the foolishness out of you if you try to send back anything she brings with her. This place is as cold as an ice-store. What's the matter with your stove?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The stove's all right, and the man pointed to his leg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The trouble is that I've very little wood. Axe slipped the last time I went chopping in the bluff, and the frost got into the cut. I couldn't make three miles on one leg, and pack a load of billets on my back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you'd freeze when those ran out, and they couldn't last you two days,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the man grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess I would, unless one of the boys came along."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything wrong with your oxen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the man drily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, said Breckenridge,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where was I to take her to? I'm a farmer without dollars, and I had to go somewhere when I'd lost three wheat crops in Dakota. Somebody told me you had room for small farmers, and when I heard the land was to be opened for homesteading, I sold out everything, and came on here to begin again. Never saw a richer soil, and there's only one thing wrong with the country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The men in it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said fiercely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The cattle-barons--and there'll be no room for anyone until we've done away with them. We've no patience for more fooling. It has got to be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the executive's business,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to talk plainer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said the farmer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're going to sit tight until your leaders tell you to move,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless they keep ahead of us we're going to trail them along. You're a straight man, Larry, but you don't see all you've done. You set this thing going, and now you can't step out if it goes too far for you. No, sir, you've got to keep the pace and come along, and it's going to be quite lively now some of the Chicago anarchy boys are chipping in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When they're wanted, your leaders will be there, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've got hold, and they'll keep it, if they have to whip the sense into some of you. Now give me that axe of yours, and we'll get some wood. I don't want to hear any more wild talking."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if that fellow meant to give us a hint,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he did--and he was right about the rest. Two years ago I was a prosperous rancher, proud of the prairie I belonged to, and without a care; but I could see what this country was meant to be, and when the others started talking about the homestead movement I did my share. Folks seemed keen to listen; we got letters from everywhere, and we told the men who wrote them just what the land could do. It was sowing blindfold, and now the crop's above the sod it 'most frightens me. No man can tell what it will grow to be before it's ready for the binder, and while we've got the wheat we've got the weeds as well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wasn't it always like that? At least, it seems so from reading a little history. I don't know that I envy you, Larry. In the tongue of this country, it's a hard row you have to hoe. Of course, there are folks who would consider they had done enough in planting it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Grant agreed,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't eaten since sun up, and drove most of sixty miles, so I didn't wait, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our executive boss, who told me to lose no time, seemed kind of worried about something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, he read."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We had to put the screw on a crazy Pole who has been making wild speeches here, and as he lit out I have a notion he means to see what he can do with the discontented in your district. We couldn't have him raising trouble round this place, any way. It's taking us both hands to hold the boys in already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bad news?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Grant said wearily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get your supper and sleep when you can. You'll be driving from sun up until after it's dark to-morrow."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has put Hetty further from me than ever, and cost me the goodwill of every friend I had; while the five thousand dollars I've lost as well don't count for very much after that,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I a message from Mrs. Harper bring, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Last night two men to Harper's house have come, and one now and then will to the other talk in our tongue. He is one, I think, who will destroy everything. Then they talk with Harper long in the stable, and to-day Harper with his rifle rides away. Mrs. Harper, who has fears for her husband, would have you know that to-night, or to-morrow he will go with other men to the Cedar Ranch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going there now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know the cattle-men would do almost anything to get their hands on you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, Grant said wearily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't you wasting time?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid I will have to go, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your father is not fond of waiting."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you through with those songs yet, Clavering?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid I have made Miss Torrance tired, said Clavering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, we have music enough left us for another hour or two."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why can't you stay on over to-morrow and get a whole night at it? I want you just now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I to tell him I will?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will do what suits you, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When my father asks any one to Cedar I really don't often make myself unpleasant to him."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a talk with Purbeck which cost us fifty dollars. His notion was that the Bureau hadn't a great deal to go upon if they meant to do anything further about dispossessing us. In fact, he quite seemed to think that as the legislature had a good many other worries just now, it would suit them to let us slide. He couldn't recommend anything better than getting our friends in the lobbies to keep the screw on them until the election."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That means holding out for another six months, any way. Did you hear anything at the settlement?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Fleming wouldn't sell the homestead-boys anything after they broke in his store. Steele's our man, and it was Carter they got their provisions from. Now, Carter had given Jackson a bond for two thousand dollars when he first came in, and as he hadn't made his payments lately, and we have our thumb on Jackson, the Sheriff has closed down on his store. He'll be glad to light out with the clothes he stands in when we're through with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry wouldn't sit tight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Clavering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He wired right through to Chicago for most of a carload of flour and eatables, but that car got billed wrong somehow, and now they're looking for her up and down the side-tracks of the Pacific slope. Larry's men will be getting savage. It is not nice to be hungry when there's forty degrees of frost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have fixed the thing just as I would."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You could not have meant that, father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Torrance, drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite think I did, but there's a good deal you can't get the hang of, Hetty--and it's getting very late."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am quite willing, so long as you are coming too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't. Isn't that plain? This thing is getting horrible--but I have to see it through. It was Clavering fixed it, any way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put it away until to-morrow, Flora Schuyler advised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be easier to see whether you have any cause to be angry then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know just what you mean, and it would be nicer just to look as if I never felt anything, as some of those English folks you were fond of did; but I can't. I wasn't made that way. Still, I'm not going to apologize for my father. He is Torrance of Cedar, and I'm standing in with him--but if I were a man I'd go down and whip Clavering. I could almost have shaken him when he wanted to stay here and tried to make me ask him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Flora Schuyler, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to stay with you; but I don't quite see what Clavering has done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No? said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't you just a little stupid, Flo? Now, he has made me ashamed--horribly--and I was proud of the men we had in this country. He's starving the women and the little children; there are quite a few of them lying in freezing shanties and sod-huts out there in the snow. It's just awful to be hungry with the temperature at fifty below."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they have Mr. Grant to help them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You believe he could do something,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! You know him better than I do, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you quite sure that you have a great deal to forgive?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be clever, Flo. Come here quite close, and be nice to me. This thing is worrying me horribly; and I'm ashamed of myself and--of everybody. Oh, I know I'm a failure. I couldn't sing to please folks and I sent Jake Cheyne away, while now, when the trouble's come, I'm too mean even to stand behind my father as I meant to do. Flo, you'll stay with me. I want you."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strangers! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bowie knows all the cattle-boys. Who can be coming at this hour?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be frightened, Flo, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll whip them back to the place they came from."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The rustlers!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put the lamp out, and sit well away from the window,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty in a voice Miss Schuyler had not heard before;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you would be 'most as safe down there--and I guess it was born in you,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are the boys, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In at the railroad, most of them. One or two at the back. Now, I'll show you how to load a rifle, Flo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You push this slide back, and drop the cartridge in, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now it has gone into this pipe here, and you drop in another. Get hold, and push them in until you can't get in any more. Why--it can't hurt you--your hands are shaking!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out! said a hoarse voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll give you a minute. Then you can have a sleigh to drive to perdition in."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That wouldn't suit me, said Torrance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want here, any way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Food, somebody answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wanted to starve us, Torrance, and rode us out when we went chopping stove wood in the bluff. Well, you don't often miss your supper at the Range, and there's quite enough of it to make a decent blaze. You haven't much of that minute left. Are you coming out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got nobody, and they're into the shadow now,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've brought their axes along, said somebody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If there's any of the Michigan boys around they'll drive that door in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch it, two of you, said Torrance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jake, can't you get a shot at them?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got the pillar instead of him. There's a streak of light behind me. Well, I'll try for him again."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got him this time. The other one's lit out,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't keep us out, Torrance. We're bound to get in; but I'll try to hold the boys now if you'll let us have our wounded man, and light out quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not making much of a show, and I'm quite ready to do the best I can, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there's any life in him we want your man for the Sheriff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was 'most forgetting the fellow outside there. We'll hold them off from the window while you bring him in."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll leave him here in the meanwhile, where he can't freeze, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shot right through the shoulder, but there's no great bleeding. The cold would stop it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The longer that man stops as he is, the better chances he's going to have. He glanced towards the window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, can you see what they're doing now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hauling out prairie hay, said Clavering."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've broken into the store, and from what one fellow shouted they've found the kerosene."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody riding this way at a gallop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold on! Throw down that rifle! It's Larry Grant."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, she said,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing here?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a good deal of that I can't quite understand, and the rest doesn't seem to fit this case, he said, with a laugh that had more effect upon some of those who heard it than a flow of eloquence would have had."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boys, we have no use for worrying about the meanness of European kings and folks of that kind. If you have brought any along I'd sooner listen to sensible Americans."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it just comes to this, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Torrance and the cattle-men have done their best to starve us and freeze us out, and, since he has made it plain that there's no room for both of us, somebody has got to go. Now, we have come a long way and we mean to stay. We're not looking for trouble, but we want our rights."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you're taking a kind of curious way of getting them, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know that trying to burn folks' houses ever did anybody much good, and it's quite likely to bring a regiment of United States cavalry down on you. Mr. Torrance, I fancied I heard firing. Have you anybody hurt inside?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of your men, said Torrance drily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hope to pull him round, and let the Sheriff have him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, you hear him! Bring along that wagon. We're going in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop right there, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throw every truss of hay down. The man who holds off when I tell him what to do is going to have trouble with the executive."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty, she gasped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall do something silly in another moment."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Run that wagon back where you got it from,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess there'll be no more trouble, boys. That's a thing there's not many men could have done,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wasn't he splendid, Flo?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, you can pick out four men, and we'll hear them at the committee. I have two or three questions to ask you by and by. Half a dozen of you keep a look-out. The rest can get into the stable out of the frost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think you need have any further anxiety, and you can shut that window if you want to, Mr. Torrance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know that I've shown any yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you haven't felt it, said Grant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is cold out here, and I'm willing to come in and talk to you."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would suit us, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wouldn't pay. There would be too many of his friends wondering what had become of him. Get the door open and tell him to come in. Light the big lamps, somebody."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have let him go, but if you try any meanness, or he isn't ready when we want him, we'll pull the place down,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry I did not arrive soon enough to save you this inconvenience, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have been here a good many times, Larry, and we did our best for you. None of us fancied that you would repay us by coming back with a mob of rabble to pull the place down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nobody is more sorry than I am, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't you a trifle late?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came as soon as I got word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's not what I mean. There is very little use in being sorry now. Before the other fools you joined started there talking there was quietness and prosperity in this country. The men who had made it what it is got all, but nothing more than they were entitled to, and one could enjoy what he had worked for and sleep at night. This was not good enough for you--and this is what you have made of it."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have done nothing for him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "AREN'T YOU A TRIFLE LATE?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Torrance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, first of all, I want that man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can have him. We had meant him for the Sheriff, but what you did just now lays me in your debt, and I would not like to feel I owed you anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I have quite deserved that, sir. I owe you a good deal, and it makes what I have to do harder still. Can't you remember that there was a time when you were kind to me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Torrance drily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to be reminded when I have done foolish things. I tried to warn you, but you would not listen to me, that the trail you have started on will take you a good deal farther than you meant to go. If you have anything to tell me, I would sooner talk business. Are you going to bring your friends round here at night again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They came without me, and, if I can help it, will not come back. This thing will be gone into, and the leaders punished by our committee. Now, are you willing to stop the intimidation of the storekeepers, which has brought about this trouble, and let us get provisions in the town? I can offer you something in exchange."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Torrance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do what suits you best. I can make no terms with you. If it hadn't been for my foolishness in sending the boys off with the cattle, very few of your friends would have got away from Cedar Range to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take my man away. I can thank you for that at least,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going now, sir, and it is hard to tell what may happen before we meet again. We have each got a difficult row to hoe, and I want to leave you on the best terms I can."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That alone, he said quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can only hope you are mistaken, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have lived quite a long while, but I have never seen the rabble keep faith with anyone longer than it suited them, the older man said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any way, that is not the question. You will be handed to the Sheriff if you come here again. I have nothing more to tell you, and this is, I hope, the last time I shall ever speak to you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Torrance can't object to two women thanking you for what you have done; and if he does, I don't greatly mind,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem quite impressed, Miss Schuyler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am, said Flora Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen a man who commands one's approbation--and an American."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, they're not always quite the same thing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Flora Schuyler said coldly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was one of the pleasant fancies I had to give up a long time ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would like a definition of the perfected American,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you tell him, Hetty? I once heard you talk quite eloquently on that subject."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's the man who wants to give his country something, and not get the most he can out of it. The one who goes round planting seeds that will grow and bear fruit, even if it is long after he is there to eat it. No country has much use for the man who only wants to reap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said reflectively,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He knew what he was doing, said Flora Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The trouble is that now few men know a dragon's tooth when they see it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then the ones who don't should be stopped right off when they go round planting anything."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't that remind you of the Chicago Limited?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was wondering, said Miss Schuyler breathlessly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Hetty, with a twinkle in her eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I felt I had to do something a little out of the usual, and it was really safe enough. Everybody feels that way now and then, and I couldn't well work it off by quarrelling with you, or going out and talking to the boys as my father does. I don't know a better cure than a gallop or a switchback in a sleigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some folks find it almost as soothing to tell their friends what is worrying them, and I scarcely think it's more risky,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, she said,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And there was nothing else?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty, a little too decisively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! Any way, now I have told you we are not going to worry about these things to-day, and I drove fast partly because the trail is narrow, and one generally meets somebody here. Did it ever strike you, Flo, that if there's anyone you know in a country that has a bridge in it, you will, if you cross it often enough, meet him there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, and Miss Schuyler smiled satirically,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is, of course, a coincidence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be foolish, Flo, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could I know he was coming?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait. We'll pull up and lead our team round."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad we met you, Larry, said the girl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flo thanked you the night you came to Cedar, and I wanted to, but, while you know why I couldn't, I would not like you to think it was very unkind of me. Whatever my father does is right, you see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, said Grant gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have to believe it, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was very nice of you. Then you must be wrong."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Grant, with a merry laugh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, that makes it a little easier for me to admit that the folks I belong to go just a little too far occasionally. Larry, I hate to think of the little children going hungry. Are there many of them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid there are quite a few--and sick ones, too, lying with about half enough to cover them in sod-hovels."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I want to do something for them it can't be very wrong, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry, you will take a roll of bills from me, and buy them whatever will make it a little less hard for them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Grant quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't, Hetty. Your father gives you that money, and we have our own relief machinery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a little my mother left me, and it was hers before she married my father. Can't you understand? I am with my father, and would not lift my finger to help you and the homestead-boys against him, but it couldn't do anybody any harm if I sent a few things to hungry children. You have just got to take those dollars, Larry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I dare not refuse, said Grant, after thinking a moment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They need more than we can give them. But you can't send me the dollars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Grant, smiling gravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must never tell them, or anybody,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got the dollars. I don't know that it was quite the square thing, but with Harper's wife and the Dutchman's children 'most starving in the hollow, I felt I had to take them."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem kind of played out, Larry, and I guess you didn't know you dropped the thing,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said unevenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me alone a minute. I didn't see you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what you have got here, Larry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's something that dropped out of the wallet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, that's quite plain; but if I know the writing it's a letter with something in it from Torrance to the Sheriff. There's no mistaking the way he makes the 'g.' Turn it over and I'll show you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. Do you generally look at letters that don't belong to you, Chilton?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess that one belongs to the committee. I didn't mean to look at the thing, but, now I'm sure of it, I have to do what I can for the boys who made me their executive. I don't ask you how you got it, Larry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got it by accident."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we needn't worry over that. The question is, what you're going to do with it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to send it back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what you can't do. As we know, the cattle-men had a committee at Cedar a day or two ago, and now here's a packet stuffed with something going to the Sheriff. Doesn't it strike you yet that it's quite likely there's a roll of dollar bills and a letter telling him what he has to do inside it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't want their dollars, but that letter's worth a pile of them to us. We could get it printed by a paper farther east, with an article on it that would raise a howl from everybody. There are one or two of them quite ready for a chance of getting a slap at the legislature, while there's more than one man who would be glad to hawk it round the lobbies. Then his friends would have no more use for the Sheriff, and we might even get a commission sent down to straighten things up for us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The trouble is that we can't make any use of it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, repeated Grant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wasn't meant that I should get it, and I'm going to send it back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, while I don't want to make trouble, I'll have to mention the thing to my committee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll do just what you believe is right. Any way, we'll have supper now. It will be ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite straight with us in this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Grant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am, said Chilton simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have known you quite a long while, and your assurance is good enough for me; but you would have found it difficult to make other folks believe you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the first time I have seen your scruples spoil your appetite, Chilton, but I had a notion that you were not quite sure about taking any supper from me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, laughed Chilton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know how I got the letter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Breckenridge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Torrance must have inadvertently slipped it into the wallet. You couldn't have done anything else, Larry; but the affair is delicate and will want some handling. How are you going to get the packet back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take it myself,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wasn't Chris Allonby to have come over to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry he didn't. I have a letter for the Sheriff to give him, and wanted to get rid of the thing. It is important, and I fancy, from what my father told me, if any of the homestead-boys got it they could make trouble for us. Chris is to ride in with it and hand it to the Sheriff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't like a letter of that kind lying round, said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you put it, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where nobody would ever find it--under some clothes of mine. Talking about it makes one uneasy. Pull out the second drawer in the bureau, Flo."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pull the drawer out, Flo. No. Never mind anything. Shake them out on the floor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was there, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think! said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You couldn't have put it anywhere else?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty faintly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the wrong people got it, it would turn out the Sheriff and make an outcry everywhere. That is what I was told, though I don't know what it was about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, you know it would be safe with Mr. Grant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry never did anything mean in his life. But you don't understand, Flo. He didn't know it was there, and it might have dropped out on the prairie, while, even if he found it, how is he going to get it back to me? The boys would fire on him if he came here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will have to tell your father, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is going to be the hardest thing I ever did. He is just dreadful in his quietness when he is angry--and I would have to tell him I had been meeting Larry and sending him dollars. You know what he would fancy."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father will not be here until noon to-morrow, and that letter is in the hands of a very honest man. I think you can trust him to get it back to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he couldn't send anybody without giving me away, and he knows it might cost him his liberty to come here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I scarcely fancy that would stop him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flo, I wonder how it would have suited if Larry had been fond of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You once told me I should have him. Are you quite sure you would like to hand him over now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are talking nonsense--and I don't know how I can face my father to-morrow,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shake yourself together, Flo, said Hetty, in a hoarse whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I tell you, turn the lamp down and open the door. I am going to see who is there."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, he's coming in. Hetty, I must scream."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you do, they'll shoot him. Don't be a fool, Flo."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catch hold of the frame here, Flo, she said breathlessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, push with all your might."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear anything, Jake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody shutting a door in the house there,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said, with a little quiver in her voice,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are quite sure they didn't see you, Larry? You took a terrible risk just now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess I did. I taught you to shoot as well as most men, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What brought you here? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, you can't get away now. Sit down, Larry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came to give you something you sent me by mistake, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not have come this way if I could have helped it, but I saw there was a man with a rifle every here and there as I crept up through the bluff, and it was quite a while before I could swing myself up by a pillar on to the verandah. You have been anxious about this, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't you have given it to somebody to bring me? It would have been ever so much safer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said the man simply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I could."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if you guessed what was in that letter, Mr. Grant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I have a notion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! said Hetty impulsively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We knew you had, and that was why we felt certain you would try to bring it back to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it could have been managed in a different fashion it would have pleased me better, Grant said, with a little impatient gesture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry I frightened you, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was frightened, but only just a little at first, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was when I saw who it was and heard the boys below, that I grew really anxious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must try to get away again more quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not until the man by the store goes away. You have taken too many chances already. You have driven a long way in the cold. Take off that big coat, and Flo will make you some coffee."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid you will have to put up with my company until that fellow goes away; and I need not tell you that this is very nice for me. One hasn't much time to feel it, but it's dreadfully lonely at Fremont now and then."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you do up there at nights?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sometimes Breckenridge and I sit talking by the stove, and now and then we quarrel. Breckenridge has taste, and generally smooths one the right way; but there are times when I feel like throwing things at him. Then we sit quite still for hours together listening to the wind moaning, until one of the boys comes in to tell me we are wanted, and it is a relief to drive until morning with the frost at fifty below. It is very different from the old days when I was here and at Allonby's two or three nights every week."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have been hard to give up what you did, said Hetty, with a diffidence that was unusual in her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I know you did it willingly, but you must have found it was very different from what you expected. I mean that the men you wanted to smooth the way for had their notions too, and meant to do a good deal that could never please you. Suppose you found they didn't want to go along quietly, making this country better, but only to trample down whatever was there already?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you will have to face that question, Mr. Grant, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good many men of your kind have had to do it before you. Isn't a faulty ruler better than wild disorder?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is just what I mean. If you saw they wanted anarchy, Larry, you would come back to us? We should be glad to have you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I and the rest would have to teach them what was good for them, and if it was needful try to hold them in. Whatever they did, we who brought them here would have to stand in with them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems years, said the man, wistfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So much has happened since."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can remember all of it still--the pale blue sky behind the bluff, with the little curl of grey smoke floating up against it. You sat by the fire, Larry, roasting the grouse, and talking about what could be done with the prairie. It was all white in the sunshine, and empty as far as one could see, but you told me it would be a great red wheat-field by and by. I laughed at you for dreaming things that couldn't be, but we were very happy that day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hetty is leaving you out,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wasn't there, you see, Miss Schuyler said quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those days belong to you and Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you thinking, Flo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was scarcely worth mentioning. I was wondering how it was that the only times we have crossed the bridge we met Mr. Grant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's quite simple, said Larry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Each time it was on Wednesday, and I generally drive round to see if I am wanted anywhere that day. They have had to do almost without provisions at the homesteads in the hollow lately. Your dollars will be very welcome, Hetty."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello! All quiet, Jake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a kind of notion I saw something moving in the bluff, but I couldn't be quite sure, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was a door or window banged up there on the verandah a while ago, but that must have been done by one of the women in the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody has come in straight from the bluff, said one of the men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can see where he has been, but I'm blamed if I can figure where he went to unless it was up the post into the verandah, and he couldn't have done that without Miss Torrance hearing him. I'll stop right here, any way, and I wish my two hours were up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm that stiff I can scarcely move,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is going to stay there two hours, and he would see us the moment we opened the window,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must get away at once--through the house,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a man with a rifle in the hall, she said, shudderingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flo, can't you think of something?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancy it would not be very difficult for Mr. Grant to get away, but the trouble is that nobody must know he has been near the place. That is the one thing your father could not forgive, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had it been otherwise I should have gone an hour ago,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Flora Schuyler, with a curious look in her face,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? said Hetty, very sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, Flo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would appear base treachery in Hetty's case would be less astonishing in me. Mr. Grant, you must not run risks again to talk to me, but since you have done it I must see you through. You are sure there is only one cow-boy in the hall, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said, with quick incisiveness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't let you, Flo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I asked your permission, said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could you explain this to your father, Hetty? I believe he would not be angry with me. Adventurous gallantry is, I understand, quite approved of on the prairie. Call your maid. Mr. Grant, will you come with me?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you scream or do anything silly you will be ever so sorry, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go down into the hall and talk to Jo. Keep him where the stove is, with his back to the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how am I to do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take him something to eat, Miss Schuyler said impatiently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any way, it should not be hard to fool him--I have seen him looking at you. Now, I wonder if that grey dress of mine would fit you--I have scarcely had it on, but it's a little too tight for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry, said Hetty,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said, and the lamplight showed a darker hue than the bronze of frost and sun in his face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Miss Schuyler, I have never felt quite so mean before, and you will leave the rest to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me, she said coolly,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems kind of cold. What can Miss Schuyler want with opening the door? Is that Miss Torrance behind her?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now there's going to be trouble. See what you've done,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm blamed if I touched the thing. What made it fall over, any way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pick them up, the girl said sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't want to make trouble for me!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm quite sorry, Miss Torrance, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The concerned thing went over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has got away, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come back with me. I don't feel like standing up any longer."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I felt it, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty, I'd watch that maid of yours. She's too clever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have never met any one who would do as much for me as you would, Flo, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think there is anything that could come between us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never seen your father anything but precise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has anything led you to fancy that he has changed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The envelope is all creased and crumpled. It might have been carried round for ever so long in somebody's pocket. Now, I know you don't smoke, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no reason why I should not, but, as it happens, I don't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, the packet has a most curious, cigar-like smell, said Allonby, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I don't think Mr. Torrance carries loose cigars and letters about with him together. I wonder what deduction one could make from this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You could never make the right one, Chris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you know what's inside it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to see you count them now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the Sheriff,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you know. I mean the getting hold of Larry."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One could almost have fancied you were not pleased to see us, and would sooner have talked to Mr. Torrance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hetty knows how diffident I am, but it seems to me a lady with your observation should have seen the gratification I did not venture to express."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not remarkably evident, said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In fact, when you heard Mr. Torrance was not here I fancied I saw something else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking, said Allonby,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down, and don't talk nonsense, Chris, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shouldn't think too much; when you're not accustomed to it, it isn't wise. What brought you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a message for your father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a good deal of it, and it's just a little confusing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is certainly not complimentary, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you think Hetty and I could remember anything that you can?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you could. But, I had my instructions. I was told to give Mr. Torrance the message as soon as I could, without troubling anybody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it is of moment?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. That is, we want him to know, though there's really nothing in it that need worry anybody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, it is unfortunate that my father is away,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could write him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was an inspiration! You can be positively brilliant, Chris. You will find paper and special envelopes in the office, as well as a big stick of sealing-wax."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Clavering will be kind of sorry Mr. Torrance wasn't here, but he has got it fixed quite straight,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What has he fixed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the man,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flo, she said sharply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have not told me your notions yet. Still, this is clear to both of us, Mr. Clavering expects to meet somebody at the Cedar Bluff, and your father is to bring two or three men with him. The question is, what could they be wanted for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty, with a little quiver in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wednesday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think, Flo. There must be no uncertainty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the key. All is fair--in war!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't make me angry with you, Flo, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't read it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? said Miss Schuyler quietly, holding up the pad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I think we can. This is another manifestation of the superiority of the masculine mind. Give me your hand-glass, Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, said Hetty, with a little gasp."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still--it's horribly mean."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you let the man who rides by the bluff on Wednesdays fall into Clavering's hands, it would be meaner still."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have fixed it with the Sheriff. Clavering's boys had, as you guessed, been watching for Larry on the wrong day; but now we have found out it is Wednesday we'll make sure of him. If you care to come around to the bluff about six that night, you will probably see us seize him; but if you would sooner stand out in this case, it wouldn't count. We don't expect any difficulty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flo, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not the point, said Miss Schuyler sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I are going to drive over to the Newcombes and stay the night. You get nervous when my father is away. But we are not going there quite straight; and you had better put your warmest things on."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing would induce me to stay here another night when Mr. Torrance was away, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can tell him that, if he is vexed with Hetty, and you needn't worry. We will be safe at Mrs. Newcombe's before an hour is over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess not. It's a league round by the bridge, and you couldn't find the other trail in the dark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, look at the time, and we'll let you know when we get there,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold fast, Flo. You did that very well; but we have our alibi to prove, and are not going near the bridge,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The river, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold fast! There's a piece like a toboggan-leap quite near."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know when that star comes out, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If Larry's only there we can warn him and make our ride on time."
}
]
|
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