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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H'l'o, Reeves, ol' top! Glad to she you. S'down an' have a good ol' drink! Wait'll I shave. Hell of a job to shave. He stood before the mirror weaving back and forth, with a razor in one hand and a shaving brush in the other, and a glass half full of whiskey upon the washstand b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sho long, ol' man--she you later--I got to go now. You don' know Joe Pete." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To hell with tea! he growled thickly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want hooch. I've got to have it--just one drink." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Give me a drink of hooch! Didn't you hear me? I need it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't eat. I'm sick. Hurry up and finish, and hit the back-trail as fast as those dogs can travel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You goin' ride?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I'll walk. Got to walk a while or I'll freeze." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you! cried Brent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pull those dogs around! We're going back to Dawson." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbe-so we goin' back Dawson, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, firs' we goin' Fo't Norman. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To hell with the hooch, he said, one evening, as he and the Indian sat upon their robes in the door of the tent and watched the red flames lick at the firewood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't take a drink now if I had a barrel of it!" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goin' to camp?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where you headin'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mackenzie River." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you ain't got fer to go. Trappin'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. Prospec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you doin' over on this side, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You hain't honest to God prospectin' be you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure I am. Everything is staked over there, and I've got to make another strike." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe you haven't spent much time hunting for gold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd tell a party I hain't! What's the use of huntin' fer gold where they hain't none? Over on this side a man c'n do better at somethin' else." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, yer breakfast's ready an' you'll be pullin' out soon. We've pulled a'ready--the old woman's mushin' ahead. So long--shake, to show they's no hard feelin's--or, better yet, have a drink." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tea ready," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Damn it! Don't I know it? snapped Brent, then his hand reached out for the bottle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guess one won't hurt any," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure it won't, agreed Claw,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you get for a quart of that liquor over here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two ounces, answered Claw," }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' they ain't nothin' in it at that, after packin' it over them mountains. I git two ounces fer it after it's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just forget what I said yesterday--I was a damned fool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The hooch, she all tam' mak' de damn fool. She no good. I ain' care w'at de hooch talk 'bout. Som' tam' you queet de hooch. Dat good t'ing. W'en you sober, you good man. You say, J...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If there is, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one's ever got any of it. An' I'm doubtin' if there's any gold east of the Mackenzie. I've been on the river a good many years, an' I never saw any, except a few nuggets that an old squaw named Wananebish found...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On de trail, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I handle you lak wan leetle baby. Now, you _skookum tillicum_. You de firs mans kin put Joe Pete on de back. De hooch, she no good for hell!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You bet, she's no good! agre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, he stammered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, I had no idea you were here--I mean, I had not expected to meet a lady in the middle of this God-forsaken wilderness. And especially as I only expected to find Indians--and I hadn't even expecte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, he said gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know who you think I am, or why you should want to kill me, but I do know that some day we shall become better acquainted. Good bye--till we meet again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They think we're holding out for a higher price," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No wonder these damned hooch-peddlers can afford to take a chance. What are those skins worth?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dis wan she dark cross fox, wort' mebbe-so, t'i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go down the river, whispered the still small voice of Common Sense," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are no hunters there. But Brent only smiled, and held his course. And as he swung over the snow trail his thoughts were of the girl who had stepped from the cabin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonder if she needs any help? he muttered as he slit the throat of his third caribou. He glanced across the short open space to see the girl bending over the carcass of the other bull." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess I'll take a chance, he grinned," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was mighty good shooting, he smiled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those brutes were sure traveling!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, they were very close. I couldn't have missed. It took two shots for the last one, but both bullets counted. Yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the wind! cried the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quick, take a shoulder of meat! We must find shelter and camp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't cut a leg bone with this knife!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are no ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Break some live branches for the roof of our shelter! she commanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This stuff will do for firewood, and in a minute you can take the ax and I will build the wikiup." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must be careful, she cautioned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As she talked she opened a light packsack that Brent had noticed upon her shoulders, and drew from its interior a rabbit robe which she spread upon the boughs. Then from the pack she produced a small s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, I know why I like you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes? smiled Brent," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And are you going to tell me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is because you are good. She continued, without noting the quick cat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good night, and may God keep you. You forgot that part, she corrected, gravely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We used to say that at the Mission." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, answered Brent,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good bye, he smiled, extending his bared hand, when at length they came to the parting of the ways," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want but one of the caribou I shot. Divide the other two between the families of the Indians that skipped out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she answered, making no effort to release the hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They need the meat. With the rabbits they can snare, it will keep them all winter. I have not much fur yet--a few fox skins, and some _loup cervier_. I will bring them to you tomo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I come and see you, soon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, yes, of course! Why did you ask me that? she inquired, wonderingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know the way to our camp, and you know that now I know you are not a hooch trader." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He came back yesterday--he and his Indian, and they got the meat. He is strong, she breathed to herself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stronger than I, for I was tired from walking in the loose snow, and I did not come back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is _his_ trail, she whispered, to a Canada jay that chattered and jabbered at her from the limb of a dead spruce." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He came here, as I came, to look at our little wikiup. And he went away and left it just as it was. Above her head the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Snowdrift in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, the squaw answered, and as an after-thought," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has gone with the women to bring in the meat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His smile broadened, though he n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't we be friends?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you will let me kill you now--we can be friends." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come, laughed Brent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's carrying friendship a bit too far, don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be? she faltered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can it be that there is such a white man?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are many such white men, he said, soothingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You need not fear. I am your friend, and the friend of Snowdrift. I, like yourself, am here to find gold, and like yourself, I too, hate the traders of hooch--and with reason. He stepp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The squaw lied! he uttered fiercely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never in God's world is Snowdrift her daughter! But--who is she?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where have you been? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came to hunt--and you were gone. So I waited for you to come, and I watched Joe Pete feed the fire in the hole." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I, too, went to hunt. I went to your cabin, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you have the fire in the hole?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, to thaw the gravel so we can throw it out onto the dump. Then in the spring, we'll sluice out the dump and see what we've got." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean for gold?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it beautiful?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonderful, he whispered, as his eyes swept the unending panorama of lifeless barrens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is as if we two were the only living beings in the whole dead world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I wish--I wish we were! cried...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Same thing, he muttered disgustedly, as he stared at the yellow grains," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just wages. I've got to make a strike! There's Reeves to pay--and Camillo Bill--and I've got to have dust--and plenty of it--for _her_. Damn this hole! I'm going to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I am hunting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So am I hunting--for you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But really, I am hunting caribou. There are lots of mouths to feed, and the men are not much good. They will spend hours slipping up onto a caribou ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slow down! I'll be good!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're a wonder! he panted, as he closed up the distance that separated them," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you ever get tired?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, very often...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now we must kill one for you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We needn't be in any hurry about it, he grinned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We still have most of the one we got the other day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, why are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, Snowdrift, he asked abruptly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is troubling you? Tell me all about it. You might as well begin now, you know--because----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing is the matter! she cried, with an obvi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All my life, she concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have wanted to go to the land of the white man, and see these things myself. But, I never shall see them, and I am glad you have told me more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed you shall s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is one more I thought was my friend. His name is Camillo Bill, and he is square as a die, and he did me a good turn when he cleaned me out, by holding my claims for only what he had coming when he could have taken them all. But he came to see me one day toward the last. He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When, at the very bottom, I was taken suddenly sick, it was Kitty who nursed me through. And then, when I was on my feet again she left me to myself. I have not seen her since." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And, if you make a strike again, asked the girl in a low vo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me! he cried hoarsely. For a single instant his eyes blazed into hers, and then, as though anticipating her words, his fingers relaxed their hold and he settled back with a half-articulate moan--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The thing I must tell you is this. I am a half-breed. But my father was not the husband of Wananebish, who is my mother----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that all?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I do not understand, she faltered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have known this only for a short time. Henri of the White Water told me of it, and of the shame of it--and then Sister Mercedes--and it is true, because years ago when I was very small, Wananebish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No use, he said, one day as he tossed the worthless pebbles from his pan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If there was anything here, we'd have found at least a trace. I'm going to hit down the river and have a look at the Copper Mountains." }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a great scheme, little girl, he smiled, suddenly breaking into a lighter mood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And the beauty of it is--it worked. But what I was getting at is this: it don't seem reasonable that after going to all that trouble to bring us toget...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A whaler! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One of those that Johnnie Claw said wintered up here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reckon we'll just mush over there and call on 'em. Neighbors aren't so damned common up here that we can afford t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, he greeted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the captain?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait here, said Brent, turning to Joe Pete," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Till I find out whether this whole crew is as cordial to strange...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just a visitor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come in, an' we'll look ye over!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shut the door! Coal costs money. What the hell ye tryin' to do, heat the hull Ar'tic? Who be ye, anyhow? An' wot d'ye want?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if it ain't my ol' friend Ace-In-The-Hole! cried the hooch runner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ignoring the fact that Brent had refused the proffered hand, Claw leered into his face:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ace-In-The-Hole let me make yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Swaller that, he advised, with a grin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yer gittin' white 'round the gills. Comin' right in out of the air, it might seem a leetle close in here, at first." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't know we had no neighbors, ventured the Captain, filling his own glass." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What ye doin' up here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prospecting, answered Brent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Copper Mountai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, grinned the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _Belva Lou_ hain't what ye'd call no floatin' palace, but she's ahead o' most whalers. An' after Johnnie gits through hornin' round 'mongst the Husky villages an' fixes us up with a wife apiece, we manage ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wher's yer camp?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bloody Falls, answered Brent, waxing loquacious." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bloody Falls of the Coppermine, where old Samuel Hearne's Indians butchered the Eskimos." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slit his gullet, an' we'll slip him down a seal hole with some scrap iron on his legs. He's prob'bly lyin' 'bout leavin' the dust in camp." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not him, he opined," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Search him first." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An' when we git him an' his Injun planted, me an' Asa'll take his dogs an' hit back here, an' you kin strike east along the coast till you pick up another woman. It's a damn outrage--that's what it is! Chargin' me fifty dollars apiece fer greasy old pelters like them, that ain't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ain't had no pick of a village since the Mounted begun patrolin' the coast." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Damn the Mounted!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yeh, that's what I say. But damnin' 'em don't git red of 'em. Facts is, they're here, an' eve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tried to buy her once--last year it was, offen her mother--offered her a thousan' dollars, cash money--an' 'fore I know'd what happened, the damned old squaw had me about half killed. She's a hell cat. She done it barehanded--clawed my eyes, an' clawed out a hull handful of wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's there? roared the Captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' what d'ye want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dat me--Joe Pete, came a familiar voice from beyond the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' I'm t'ink dat tam we goin' ba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He played me for a drunkard, as he had a right to, muttered Brent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And his scheme would have worked except for one little mistake. He forgot to figure that physically I'm a better man than I was back at Dawson. He thought he had me gaug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ought to have hit shore by this time, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid something's wrong." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbe-so win' change," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Might's well git started, opined Claw," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have 'em load a week's grub onto my sled, an' you an' me, an' the Dog Rib'll hit out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will a week's grub be enough? growled the Captain," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't expect 'em to show up, grinned Claw, as he trudged along behind the Captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I figgered if they didn't make camp that first stretch, they never would make it. Full of hooch, a man ain't fit to hit the trail even in good weather...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Must be some of 'em got sore at the rest, an' moved up here an' built the shack, opined Claw," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyways, we got to find out--but we better be heeled when we do it. He looked to his revolver, and stooping, picked up a rifle from the sled. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, he will come soon, she would mutter, when the inspection showed only the lifeless cabin, or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will come tomorrow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, he will be here today, she murmured," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he is not here today I will know something has happened, and tomorrow I shall start out to find him. But, no--I am foolish! Did he not say it would be two weeks--a month--maybe longer--tho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "YOU ARE WHITE!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So! my beauty! grinned the Captain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fer once in his life Claw didn't lie. An' ye didn't wait fer us to go an' git ye--jest come right to us nice as ye please--an' saved me a ke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Know me, eh? Rec'lect the time, over to the mission I tried to persuade you to make the trip to Dawson with me do you? Well, I made up my mind I'd git you. Tried to buy you offen the squaw an' she like to tore me to pieces. I'd of kidnapped you then, if it hadn't be'n fer the Mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An', now you hell-cat! he rasped, pushing her from him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You set to an' git supper! An' don't go tryin' no more monkey business, er I'll break ye in two! They seems to be grub enough here without usin' none of my own, he added, eying the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll never cook your supper! You dog! You unspeakable devil! I'll kill you first--or you'll kill me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kill ye, eh? sneered the man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I might, at that, if I didn't have five hundred good d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So here's where he left his dust, is it? It's too good to be true! I pay five hundred fer the girl instead of a thousan', an' all the dust, that Claw'll be up scratchin' the gravel around Bloody Falls fer next summer. I guess that's poor--five hundred clean cash profit, an' the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The land lies this way, he kept saying," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't lose you for a million, he muttered, as each tortured nerve of his body cried out for stimulant, and the little brain devils added their urge, and with sophistry and cunning excuse sought to undermine his resolve." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just one dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ain' goin' right fer de mountaine, shouted the Indian, with his lips close to Brent's ear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dey an' no leetle hill dere till we com' to de ridge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care, yelled Brent," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, where are we?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm t'ink, we com' too mooch far wes', he observed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm t'ink, we better strike eas', 'bout wan day, tomor'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tomorrow! cried Brent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not today--n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S'pose com' nudder beeg snow? W'at you do den, eh? You git los'. You trail git cover up. I kin no fin'. Dat better you wait." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know that lake! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the one where Snowdrift killed a caribou! The river is six or seven miles east of here, and we'll strike it just below our cabin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You sure 'bout dat'?. asked ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They won't be in any hurry about starting up river, he argued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'll hunt for me for a week. Then, when they do come--I'll kill 'em as I would kill so many mad dogs. I hate to shoot a man from ambush--but there's two of 'em, and I don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those tracks! rasped Brent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When were they made? And who made 'em?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two--t'ree mans, an' a team, he muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' wan man dat Godam Johnnie Claw!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a lie! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are not a breed! I knew it! I knew it! My darling--you are white--as white as I am! Old Wananebish is not your mother! Do you hear? _You are white!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, there, darling, he soothed, as with his back toward her, his eyes roved about the room seeking to picture, in the wild disorder, the terrific struggle that had taken place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put on those things, and then you can tell me all about ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Claw?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come we must hurry! cried the girl, who in the excitement had forgotten his very existence," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He started for the camp, to trade hooch to the Indians--and--oh, hurry! she cried, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He may watch the back-trail, he flung back over his shoulder," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn him!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is too dark, she whispered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can't see the sights, and you might hit one of the Indians." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go to her, panted the girl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will try to handle the Indians." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where--is--she?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's all right, assured the man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Claw has gone, and she is trying to quiet the Indians." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No use, she whispered the words with diffic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, she whispered, and summoning all her fast ebbing strength she gasped:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is all a lie. You are not my child. You are white. I loved you, and I was afraid you would go to your people. A paroxysm of coughing seized her, and a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must go! she faltered, hurriedly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can do nothing with the Indians. I tried to reach the hooch to destroy it, but they crowded me away. He has lied to them--won them completely over by the promise of more hooch. He told them he has ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At our cabin!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're piling brush against the cabin, cried Brent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They think they'll burn us out. Come on, we haven't a minute to lose, for when Claw learns that we are not in the cabin, he'll be on our trail." }, { "from": "human", "val...