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30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I help you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, but I'm just going up to my room; that's all."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Stevens, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to go up to Holbrook's room and ask him to come over here immediately. I'd like to have you stay with him until he starts."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know why Doctor Wells wants to see you; I haven't talked with him since he returned except to answer the request that has just been made. If you need me in any way, let me know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess there isn't anything you can do, said Teeny-bits as he picked up his hat and started out of the room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll run over to the office and see what Doctor Wells wants."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The White House"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I received a letter in the mail to-day which has something to do with you, Holbrook. I thought you'd better see it immediately. It isn't a pleasant subject and I want you to tell me frankly what you know about it."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoever sent you this, sir, wrote a lie! He didn't dare to sign his name!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe in you, Holbrook, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I want you to know that I sympathize with you as I would with any one else against whose honesty a cowardly assault has been made. One has to defend himself sturdily against such underhand attacks. Have you any enemies who might try to injure you in this way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know; I shouldn't think that any one in _this_ school would be mean enough to do it. Doctor Wells, I want you to come over to my room now, and let me prove that it's a lie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be glad to, said the Head,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a mark on this board, he said, getting down closer,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what you think, Doctor Wells, but the honest truth is that I didn't know a thing about this. I can't even guess--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Teeny-bits, said Doctor Wells--it was the second time that night that Findley Holbrook had been thus addressed by a person in authority at Ridgley--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've said once that I believe in you; this doesn't shake my confidence in your honesty. I'll take charge of these things; I think you'd better go to bed now and let me see what I can do to solve the problem. I'll borrow this empty laundry bag."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a _thief_; he's a _thief_!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you feeling fit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid you've been working a little too hard, said the coach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll call that enough for you to-day."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think of Holbrook--Teeny-bits, as they call him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I've always liked him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you quite sure of him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I----, oh, I'm sure he's all right. In fact, I've considered him as the same type--though, of course, with a different background--as Neil Durant; and you know what I think of Neil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I agree with you, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I want to tell you about a puzzling incident that happened last night."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You actually found those things in his room!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It astonishes you as much as it did me, said the Head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you think of it?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That put a real problem up to me, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't know at first what to do, but I think I see clearly now. Something happened last night--something I couldn't quite explain; I've been puzzling over it. Unless I were sure--well sure that you know just what weight to give to outward appearances, I shouldn't tell you this; everything considered, however, I think you ought to know it. The incident happened last night only a few minutes before you asked me to send Holbrook over to you."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've always believed that character inevitably expresses itself in a person's face, said Doctor Wells,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to _forget football_ from now until Saturday, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imagine that no such game ever existed. To-morrow, go on a little walk somewhere or take it easy in any way you like, but don't bother your brains with any football thinking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by taking a little tour in his father's automobile. Tracey telephoned home, discovered that the elder Campbell was out of town, and had little difficulty in persuading his mother to send the chauffeur over to Ridgley with the car. Tracey suggested that he might take along one or two members of the football team, but Bassett made a remark or two that caused the substitute back to change his mind. After driving to the"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he'll be there, so don't worry yourself about that, said Campbell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's on the inside and nothing you can do--got a match? I'm going to smoke."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't you tell me one time that Chuan Kai had a regular den upstairs where no one ever went--except the Chinks?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The trouble with _you_, was Bassett's next remark,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll talk to Chuan Kai."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand, said Bassett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's an initiation for one of our school societies and it must be always a secret--never tell any one we had anything to do with it. You understand?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Teeny-bits, you're wanted on the telephone."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at Ridgley School resembled the lull before a storm; word had been passed as usual that the dormitories were to be quiet and members of the school were to keep away from the rooms of the football players, who, of course, needed, on this night of all nights, a sound and long sleep. In Lincoln Hall, at meal time, there had been a hum of eager conversation: the Jefferson team had arrived in Hamilton and had gone to comfortable quarters at Grey Stone Inn, three miles from the school. They would remain at the inn until just before the game, when they would come to the field in automobiles. Several of the Ridgleyites who had been in the station at the time of the visitors' arrival reported that the Jefferson players were"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that Norris, the renowned full-back, was the biggest"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ridgley spirit."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What kind of book is that? asked Snubby."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A novel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's _ijeers_ in this book, I wanter tell yer. It's about an awful smart feller who had ways of his own in gettin' at the bottom o' things--kind of a detecative chap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Mystery of the Million Dollar Diamond."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does a man good sometimes to exercise his brains on meesterious happenin's, said old Jerry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we have; but I'm not half as much interested in that stuff just now as I am in the Jefferson game. Who do you think's going to win?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got my ijeers about that too, but it don't do no good to tell everythin' that is millin' aroun' in your head. Now I once heared of a feller who had a job forecastin' the weather for a noospaper, and he'd allus say right out _positive_ whether it 'ud rain or shine--it was allus goin' to be bright and clear or dark and stormy--and along come a spell o' weather and every day for a week he said it was going to rain, and I'll be singed if there was a cloud in the sky all through them seven days--and the feller lost his job. Now the way I look at the game is this: we got a big chance to win and we got a big chance to lose, and if we do the things we oughter do it's goin' to be bright and fair, and if we do the things we hadn't oughter do it's goin' to be dark and stormy,--and I got my ijeers which is which. But, as I said, it don't do too much good to tell _everythin'_ you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll be an awful fight, said Snubby;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bet you'll sleep all right, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never yet seen a feller like you that didn't sleep when the time come for it, and as for helping, I guess you'll do your part if you keep on believin' that Ridgley School can't be beat and when the game is goin' on you yell your dumdest to encourage the team."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Snubby,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you want to go on readin' that lurid-looking book of yours, so I'll be going up to my room, I guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ain't so lurid, said Jerry,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--men who had played for Ridgley and Jefferson twenty years before and who had come back to view once again the immortal combat between the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perfect football weather!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess he's already eaten and gone; he probably didn't want to listen to our football gossip."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ridgley left-half will be the lightest player on the field; he cannot be expected to do much against the heavy Jefferson line, but he has gained a reputation as a shifty runner and deserves to be watched on open plays."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Teeny-bits?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll probably be along pretty soon, said the coach."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He ought not to be late to-day, though."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe he went home. We'll probably find him down at the locker building."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's mighty queer, Neil said to Ned Stillson."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't understand it. If he doesn't come we'll have to play Campbell in his place--and somehow I haven't much faith in Campbell. I'm going to call up Mr. Holbrook at the Hamilton station and find out if he knows anything about Teeny-bits."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Holbrooks haven't a 'phone in their house, have they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, they haven't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, do you know where Teeny-bits is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, up at the school, I suppose; I haven't seen him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if his father is coming that's a good sign. When Teeny-bits shows up, I'll give him a lecture that'll make his hair stand on end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Campbell, get out there in left-half and let me see you show some _pep_."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the idea of all this business?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you bring me here? he demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you _crazy_, or what _is_ the matter with you?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes alive, Teeny-bits! cried Ma Holbrook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a tremulo you gave me. How'd you get here? Your pa and I heard you movin' around and I thought sure it was burglars!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't tell me you've been here all night!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came in through the kitchen window after you were asleep and I didn't want to disturb you, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was looking for a good sleep before the big game."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you got it _all right_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What time is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty-nine minutes past twelve."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Past _twelve_! repeated Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It can't be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kinder late for a boy to be gettin' up,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The game starts in an hour and a half; I've got to hustle up there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not until you've eaten, said Ma Holbrook, firmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dinner's ready this minute."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want much, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just a little and then I'll have to go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll hitch up Jed, said Daniel Holbrook,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want to play in this game?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll _die_ if you don't let me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't stop to explain why you 're late--I hope you have a good excuse--but run out there and tell Campbell to come in."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's Teeny-bits!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought to _murder_ you right now, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on now; we're all here; let's go,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some tackle! he exclaimed, and grinned, as much as to say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, that's pretty good for a little fellow."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teams"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indianizing"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over, boys. Bring the undertaker!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make it a lucky number,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there any one here, he asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've just _begun_ this game and we haven't had our chance to show them what we can do when we carry the ball. We're going to _hold_ them first and then we're going to _show_ them something they've never learned."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This _is_ a game!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time will arrive for that in this second half, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be ready when it comes."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess he's sore, some one remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He thought he was going to play until Teeny-bits showed up."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out for a pass!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teeny-bits did something wonderful, then, didn't he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bet your _life_ he did; it was Teeny-bits; he ran all the way over the home plate or whatever they call it and made a score. I dunno but he's won the game _all by himself_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a magnificent run! exclaimed the Head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Magnificent! I declare--well--now we're even."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we're even! said the English master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I've discovered something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, they say that the head of this school never gets excited, but just now when Teeny-bits was running you nearly pushed me out of my seat--and I _think_ I heard a yell that came from your direction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I shout?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said the English master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back in '86, I used to play half-back myself, said Doctor Wells."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here we are; they're at it again."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now comes our turn,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Neil, said the captain of the Jefferson team,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't believe that you could get away with it and I want to tell you that I think you have a great team. I never played against an eleven that could begin to equal it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, said the Ridgley captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess the breaks came our way. I feel as if I had been playing against a bunch of Bengal tigers. If we ever played again you'd probably trim the life out of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to meet that little chap who played left-half for you, said Norris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never quite saw his equal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you came on the field, said Norris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I said to myself, 'I guess we can stop that fellow all right,' but before we got through I dreaded to see the quarter pass you the ball."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Norris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I call that one fine fellow. He ought to have come to Ridgley."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Tom, you're next! whereupon his features"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to tell you fellows, said big Tom,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll now hear from the chap who nearly gave us nervous prostration by forgetting that Ridgley was going to play a little game of football to-day."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a pretty good reason for not getting to the field before I did,--I am going to tell Mr. Murray and Neil about it later. I haven't much to say regarding the game except that I knew we could win because we had the spirit to do it and because Neil was showing us the way all the time. To play on the eleven which beat a team that fought as hard and as clean as the Jefferson crowd is an honor that makes me dizzy. I began to dream about it a few weeks ago; now that it's come true I can hardly believe it."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is our custom, as you all know, to choose a football captain at the dinner following the Jefferson game. It has always been done without nominations--simply by balloting. I'll pass around these slips of paper and I want you to write on them the name of the man who in your opinion, regardless of friendship, will make the leader who will best carry on Ridgley football tradition."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellows, you have elected a _real_ leader; one who has grit and spirit and who always thinks of the team before he thinks of himself, a fellow who does much and says little; Teeny-bits Holbrook is the captain of the Ridgley eleven. In view of the fact that he is the only one here who voted for some one else we'll call it a unanimous election."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are certain matters in regard to the tragedy that have not yet been explained: first, why on this day when all members of the school were attending the game at Ridgley Field were these two students driving _away_ from the school? No one has been able to tell where the young men were going or how the accident occurred. The assumption is that while traveling at high speed they attempted to take the sharp turn too swiftly. The machine, which was wrecked beyond repair, belonged to the father of Tracey Campbell."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whirlwind had risen from his seat at the start of the game, had made his way out of the stands and had not returned. Fred Harper and one or two others of the Ridgley football substitutes remembered that Campbell, after coming off the field when Teeny-bits had arrived, had slipped out through the opening under the stands and had not returned. Most of the members of the squad remembered that Campbell had not appeared at the locker building during the rest-period between the halves and recollected that it had occurred to them that he was"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It sounds like a pretty wild story, I know, he had said to his two friends,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what a _day_, and oh, what a _night_! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was the best thing that ever happened and I'm glad I didn't miss it. Then genial Snubby held out his hand to Teeny-bits and added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ridgley owes you a lot and I'm _mighty glad_ that the fellows made you captain. Every one says that you're the man for the job."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks, Snubby, he said, and paused,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came down here because I wanted to ask you a question that has been bothering me for nearly a week. You remember last Monday night when we had the mass meeting?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I remember that night all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Teeny-bits,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, continued Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, cried Snubby, whose face had suddenly become red,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's where you're wrong; I haven't been thinking any such thing. I _know_ that there's some other explanation and I want you to give it to me, Snubby,--for more reasons than one. I'll tell you something that I'm sure you don't know. That same night, Doctor Wells called me over to his office and showed me a letter that some one had written, saying that _I_ was the one who had stolen the things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That _you_ were the one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, declared Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that didn't make Doctor Wells believe that you had stolen the stuff! cried Snubby."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But something else happened, too, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was crouching in the bushes behind the dormitory and just after you had crawled back into your room that night, Mr. Stevens came along and found me there, and I couldn't make any explanation, you know, and so I don't see how they could help thinking that I did it--because Doctor Wells always talks things over with Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why didn't you tell them that you had seen me coming down that fire-escape?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know why I didn't do that, Teeny-bits replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see the whole thing as clear as crystal now! exclaimed Snubby,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you heard the news? the newcomer cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bassett's been killed and Campbell's in the hospital pretty nearly done for, too! It's in the newspapers. Look here!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanter see the Doctor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Doctor is very busy; he's received some bad news and he won't want to talk with you, old Jerry repeated:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanter see the Doctor! and added an imperative"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which caused the girl to come to the conclusion that here was a determined and desperate man. She announced to Doctor Wells that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was outside and that he was"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got my ijeers and they ain't no _common_ ijeers either, Doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you have, Jerry,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Jerry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who said that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them two birds I'm tellin' yer about,--Bassett, the feller they called the Whirlwind, and Campbell. Now I ain't no reg'lar detecative, Doctor, but I got my _ijeers_, and that sot me to thinkin' hard and I knew somethin' uncommon suspicious was goin' on. A friend o' mine who was kinder detecatin' round as my assistant, you might say, slid down a fire-escape rope about that time and climbed into Campbell's room, but he didn't find nothin' and come away empty-handed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was that friend of yours? asked Doctor Wells."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was it Teeny-bits?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Doctor, said old Jerry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't aimin' to keep anythin' back twixt you'n me, but there's certain things, you understan', that I can't--it wan't Teeny-bits----but further'n that----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Jerry, said the Head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I respect your point of view. Go on with your story."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Jerry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jerry, said the Doctor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I value your judgment and I thank you for coming to me in this frank way and giving me the benefit of your ideas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got my ijeers and sometimes, by gorry, they's _uncommon_ ijeers."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have just been discovering some things that make it necessary for me to tell you that last Monday night, while the football mass meeting was going on, I slid down a fire-rope and crawled into Tracey Campbell's room to see if I could discover if he was the one who had been stealing things from the fellows' rooms and that while I was doing it Teeny-bits came along and saw me, though I didn't know it at the time,--and that is the reason why you found him out there behind the dormitory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Turner, said the English master,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unexpectedly, he said,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the strangest series of circumstances that has come to my attention since I have been at Ridgley. It is hard to understand why two young fellows should harbor such an animosity for any other member of the school."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Mr. Stevens, breaking in when the Head paused,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is done can't, unfortunately, be undone, said the Head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I regret more than I can say that we were not able to nip all this trouble in the bud--catch it at the beginning and prevent the tragic ending of it all. Doctor Wells sat up a little straighter in his chair at that moment and looked at Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holbrook, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to tell you that I appreciate the fine sense of loyalty to a friend that prevented you from telling Mr. Stevens that you had seen Turner breaking into Campbell's room. That would have explained something that puzzled us. But we respect you for your silence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew that Snubby was honest, said Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did right. A suspicious nature is one of the meanest things in the world. Again the Head was silent for a time and then the expression of his face changed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now about this Chinese business, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can understand the motive that was behind spiriting you away, but when I come to the rather extraordinary means of your escape, Holbrook, I will admit that my abilities as an amateur Sherlock Holmes are too feeble. As I understand it from what you have told us, these two Chinese in this Greensboro place seem to have been strangely affected by the mark on your shoulder. Have you any explanation of that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whatever got into their heads, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's beyond me. They jabbered away at a terrible rate in Chinese and acted as if they were frightened."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the nature of this mark? asked Doctor Wells."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you don't mind telling me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's nothing, said Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Stevens, said Doctor Wells,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you and Holbrook might go over to Greensboro sometime this week and see what you can find. It won't do any harm at least to try a little amateur detective work. I wonder----"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holbrook, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't told you something that was in my mind last night when I heard the news that came from the football banquet. I was greatly pleased to learn that the Ridgley eleven had chosen you as captain. I know that you will make a leader of whom we can be as proud as we have been of Neil Durant."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I can't remember just which way I came. I was pretty excited and I ran down these streets as fast as I could and it was dark, and I didn't think much about remembering where I came."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Mr. Stevens,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At any rate, said Teeny-bits,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This looks like it! declared Teeny-bits, and then he added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I couldn't swear that it's the one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't we go up those stairs there and see what we find, said Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's trespassing, I suppose, but all in a justifiable cause."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That night, said Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remember that I came down two flights; this might be the place, but of course I didn't stop much to look around."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This isn't the room, and I don't think I ever saw this fellow before,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're looking for two Chinese who were in one of these rooms last Friday night, said Mr. Stevens to the Oriental."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps they're in the other room."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This looks like the place, but somehow it seems changed,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! exclaimed Mr. Stevens,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid your friends are running away. That fellow in the other room has given the alarm. Let's go down to the restaurant quickly and see what we can find."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last Friday night, said the English master,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No unne'stan',"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you understand English all right. Now tell me, where are those two men of yours? If you will let me see them quickly perhaps we can agree not to trouble you further. Now then, where are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ai, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You like to see my boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, look, _see_, he said as he turned back to Teeny-bits and Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You like see all boys."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think they're here, he said to Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I remember it they were bigger than these fellows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't intend to cause you any trouble. This young friend of mine has a mark on his shoulder which looks like a knife. Two of your men acted strangely when they saw it. What can you tell me about it? Don't be afraid to speak up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we'll try one thing more, said Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull off your coat, Teeny-bits, and let them take a look at that mark."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did boy get mark? These fellas (pointing to the four Chinese) think it's funny."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do they think it's funny?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I guess we've found out as much as we are able to from these fellows. Let's be going."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, we could swear out a warrant and have the police investigate this whole matter, said Mr. Stevens,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that for her part she thought that the school was a poor one and that she wished they wouldn't have such games as football"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like father, like son."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never understood him, he said to Doctor Wells,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said, 'Don't you see, it was your fault; the dog wouldn't of bit you if you hadn't been teasin' him,' but he kept on begging me to kill the mongrel and when I wouldn't do it, he decided to take matters into his own hands--and what do you suppose he done? He got a six-shooter out of a holster that one of the cowboys had left lyin' around an' come up behind that dog while he was sunnin' himself beside the ranch house and blowed out his brains! You see, he just made up his mind to settle with that dog, and nothing that any of us could say made a bit of difference. I always thought he was going to be a smart man, but I never could get close to him, so to speak. It was just as if he belonged to some other man, and now, of course, I can't help wishing that I had somehow got to understand him better."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A couple of invitations, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all fixed up, Teeny-bits. You're going home for Christmas with me and we're going up to Norris' place in the mountains for some winter sports. You remember he spoke about getting together, after the game. I thought then that I'd like to renew old times and now he writes that he wants us to come up to his place, which is a wonder, way back in the hills where there's great skiing and snowshoeing."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it hadn't been for the influenza, said Sylvia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We had a terrible quarrel over the newspaper the next day, said Mrs. Durant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to act just as if this were your own home, said Mrs. Durant when she had led the way into the Durant house on Bennington Street."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall have to call you Teeny-bits--and I hope you won't mind--because Neil has always spoken of you that way in his letters and 'Mr. Holbrook' _would_ sound formal, wouldn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would make me feel like a stick of wood, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think any one ever called me that in my life. I've just been Teeny-bits and I guess I always shall be."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every one seems to fall for you, Teeny-bits, said Neil to the new captain of the Ridgley team one day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know why it is, replied Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're off the track, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never realized before what an awful kidder you are, but anyhow I know I'm having the time of my life,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't that a good present! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're so warm and comfortable feeling. They'll be just what you'll need for the winter sports up at the Norris place."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're coming again, Sylvia had said, and when Teeny-bits had replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope so, she had added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, of course you are. Every one wants you to."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you fellows feel--pretty husky? asked Norris as they were going back toward the mountains."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of the crowd up at the camp want to tramp over the range on snowshoes to-night if it's clear and I didn't know but what we'd join them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sounds good to me, declared Neil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Teeny-bits and I have been leading the social life down in Dellsport and we're all fed up with parties and so on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sounds good to me, too, said Teeny-bits, although he had to admit to himself that he wasn't exactly"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all fixed up for to-night, said the older Norris;"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometime you will have to take us on a trip to Japan or China or India or somewhere,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said the mining engineer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to do it. Who knows, perhaps sometime I can."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I was there, said the mining engineer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What things?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why a sort of birthmark that looks like a knife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me about it. It sounds interesting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has he always had it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I guess so. I suppose it's just chance--the shape of it, but it is such an unusual looking thing that the fellows got interested in him and then of course there was the story about his mother being killed in a railroad wreck. That got around school some way; Teeny-bits himself told it, I think; so there isn't any harm in my repeating it. Some mighty nice people in Hamilton picked him up after a train accident which killed his mother and took him home. They finally adopted him, and gave him their name when they weren't able to find any of his relatives, and of course the mystery of that made the fellows all the more interested in him."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said that it was his mother who was killed in the railroad accident?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied Neil,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess they never found out what her name was. That seems pretty horrible, but the Holbrooks, who adopted Teeny-bits, are mighty fine people. Daniel Holbrook is the station agent at Hamilton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Teeny-bits is a fine chap, he said finally,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He nearly caused me nervous prostration, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What happened about these Chinese? asked the mining engineer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When did they come into it and _how_ did they act?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's another bit of mystery, said Neil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There were a couple of fellows at school who didn't like Teeny-bits for one reason or another--jealousy, I guess--and according to general belief they patched up some kind of ridiculous plot to get Teeny-bits away from the school while the big game was being played. One of them was Teeny-bits' substitute and would have played if Teeny-bits hadn't been there. Maybe you read in the papers about the accident in which a fellow named Bassett was killed and another named Campbell got pretty badly hurt. Those were the two fellows--they wrecked a big machine running away after Teeny-bits showed up at the game. At least every one supposed they were trying to make a get-away. All Teeny-bits knows about the thing is that some one sent him a fake telephone message that his father--that is, old Daniel Holbrook--had been hurt, and when Teeny-bits was on the way home some men pounced on him and carried him over to Greensboro and shut him up in some sort of Chinese place. They had him all tied up and fixed so that he couldn't get away, they thought; but Teeny-bits squirmed around and tore his sweater half off and finally got almost loose, when back came two of these Chinamen and were tying him up again when they saw this mark on his back and they began to act as if they'd been mesmerized or something. They jabbered away and pointed at the thing, and while they were going through these tantrums Teeny-bits just walked out of the place and came home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That _is_ strange, said the mining engineer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Neil,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think the matter was sort of hushed up. They did a little investigating and it didn't seem to get them anywhere, and I guess the people at the school thought it wasn't worth while to follow it up any more. No one doubts that this Campbell fellow and Bassett were behind the business, and as far as the Chinese go I guess they were just superstitious or something. You must know them pretty well--you've traveled over there so much. Don't you?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When was that crowd coming back?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't take it too fast, said Norris,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm off, cried Teeny-bits;"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't any of you see him on the way down? asked Ted Norris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe he broke his skis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He would have yelled at us, wouldn't he? said one of the Williams brothers;"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here they are, said Norris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's where Teeny-bits swerved over toward the left."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must get him down to the house as quickly as we can. Here, help me pick him up."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better go ahead to the Emmons place and get Doctor Emmons to come up to our camp quickly, said Norris to the older of the Williams boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to get there about the time we do, and tell him to bring stimulants and everything that he may need."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He crashed into a tree on the big Slide, said Ted Norris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His body seems warm but we're afraid that--well, just look at his neck; it moves so queerly. Doctor Emmons ought to be here any minute. Bert Williams went down ahead to get him."
}
]
|
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