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10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smoke head of us, fellows. Much too much to come from any one steamer. You can see it with the naked eye, dead on there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might be a vessel afire, he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of those tank-oil stea... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a big convoy, all right, he told them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see ever so many steamships following one another in double column. Each is loaded with our boys in khaki, I presume. Then off on either side and ahead are little specks that I can just ... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a great sight!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never forget it as long as I live!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's been a good thing for us in more than one way, Tom went on to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, personal... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Given another hour, Tom said, along about the middle of the morning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now we're in for another experience, I'm afraid, called out Jack,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thickest fog I ever saw!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just the usual kind you'll meet with on the sea at times, answered the lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was caught in one when out on the fishing banks, and it wasn't any too pleasa... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What makes it feel so queer at times? Jack asked later on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I seem to have the blood going to my head, just as happened when looping the loop, and hanging too long in stays."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've noticed ... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if that can be Virginia I see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't far away at most, Jack,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me the chart and just about where we ought to be right now, Tom, said Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fog is thinning some! he finally stated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Might as well,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, added Jack,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen!"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, is that the anchored light-ship's siren, Tom, do you think?"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I presume, Tom, Jack went on to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I had that in mind, came the answer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've done splendidly, Tom, said Beverly, clapping the other heartily on the back."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we'll strike in for the land!"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must look for a place to drop down without any further loss of time!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it would be mighty fine, Jack observed wistfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'd surely be nice, Jack, Beverly told him,"
},
{
"fro... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I'd better be looking for a landing-place,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the sooner we duck the better, Beverly admitted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the motors go back on us we'll be in a bad fix; and volplaning to the ground isn't alwa... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scrub woods all below us, Tom!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there must be openings here and there, the pilot told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only the field seems long enough to admit of our coming to a stop, we'd better take chances."
... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things are getting down to a fine point, Tom, warned Beverly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our gas is on its last legs, and any minute now we'll find ourselves without motive power."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must change soon, the pilot told th... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the verdict?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks to me as if that further part might be the highest ground,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I agree with you there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That settles it! Here goes to make the ... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack, what's wrong with you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing so very much, I think; but I seem to be all twisted up in this broken gear, and can hardly move,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try to see if you've been injured any way seriously, Jack,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse me if I act a little looney, fellows! he begged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fact is, I'm just keyed up to topnotch and something will give way unless I let off steam a bit."
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the poor old bomber! It's ruined, Colin, I'm afraid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a small matter, Beverly assured him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The main thing is that we did what we set out to do, and proved that the dream of all real... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the end of the marshy tract,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How fine it feels to be on solid ground again,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for the home town! the last mentioned told his companions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And as near as I can figure it out there's not a ghost of a chance that Cousin Randolph could have arrived before me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For that m... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sort of smile, Jack retorted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how good I do feel!"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-day is marked with a white stone in the life of Farmer Jenkins, believe me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's that with all of us,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow, Jack had said, when these things were being discussed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I've got a good friend who lives on Staten Island, right in New York harbor, he informed them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Often while at his house v... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So long as we reach the old town by nine tonight I'll be satisfied,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Mrs. Parmly, I believe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Job Parmly. Mrs. Parmly's sister-in-law."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see. Mrs. Parmly, my name is Beverly, Lieutenant Beverly of the United States Aerial Corps, just over from Fran... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, Jack said, as they waited for the lawyer's coming on the noon train from Richmond,"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we know that isn't the case, Tom said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now for news!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rap-rap-rap!"
}
] |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good afternoon, Aunt, said the smooth-tongued visitor, starting to enter without waiting for an invitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I learned after getting to Richmond this morning that Mr. Smedley had come out to visit you; an occurrence which makes it conven... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to find you here in Bridgeton, Mr. Smedley, Randolph again said, his voice like oil and his manner confident and condescending."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I received the notification from you when over in France working in a secret capacity for the Governmen... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have made very good time in crossing, Randolph, remarked the lawyer calmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that being the case, resumed the other, smiling still as a winner at the races might do when handed his stake ten times multiplied,"
},
{
"from"... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a scheme that may work admirably, said Beverly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it happens that the boat my good old friend is master of is due to sail from New York the day after to-morrow. We'll go on that as stowaways."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll not be for so very long now, let's hope, said Tom's father, as he squeezed his son's hand at parting;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, added Lieutenant Beverly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it'll be some time, I firmly believe, said M... |
10584 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so here we are, Jack observed, after they had passed out from Sandy Hook and were heading across toward troubled Europe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a pleasure, too, added Tom reflectively, with a glance at his chum,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
294024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd find it correct this draught"
}
] |
312304 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps she's gone to her own tent;"
}
] |
631877 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Midnight!"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As long as I can't be at home, said Harry Fleming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather be here than anywhere in the world I can think of!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rather! said his companion, Dick Mercer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You understand what we're trying to do in this country, Fleming. We don't want to fight--we pray to God that we shall never have to. But, if we are attacked, or if the necessity arises, we'll be ready, as we have been ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to be near your mother and myself just now, especially, Harry, he had said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to grow up where I can see you. And, moreover, it won't hurt you a bit to know something about other countries. You'll have a new idea of ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Germany threatens Russia! they yelled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "War sure!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid it's true, he said, soberly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The German Emperor has threatened to go to war with Russia,... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are we to come to-night, sir? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With this news--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--yes, indeed, said the scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If war is to come, there is all the more reason for... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if my father will go to war!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hadn't thought of that! said Harry, startled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Dick, I'm sorry! Still, I suppose he'll go, if his country needs him!"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll patch it up, he said, confidently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They can't be so mad as to set the whole world ablaze over a little scrap like the trouble between Austria and Servia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would it affect your business... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to change the order a bit, he said, gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to do some talking, and then I expect to answer questions. Boys, Germany has declared war on Russia. There are reports already of fighting on the border between France and Ge... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, after the French revolution, there was Napoleon. Again France, under him, was the strongest nation in Europe. He conquered Germany, and Austria, Italy and Spain, the Netherlands. And he tried to conquer England, so that France could rule the world. But Nelson beat his flee... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, I believe--and so do most Englishmen--she began to be jealous of England. She wanted our colonies. She began, finally, to build a great navy. For years we have had to spend great sums of money to keep our fleet stronger than hers. And she made an alliance with Austria ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I want you to understand one thing. I'm talking as an Englishman. A German would tell you all this in a very different way. I don't like the people who are always slandering their enemies. Germany has her reasons for acting as she does. I think her reasons are wrong. But the... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think of all the places that must be guarded. The waterworks, the gas tanks, the railroads that lead to the seaports and that will be used by the troops."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, there won't be any fighting in England, sir, will there?"
},
{
"from"... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But most of the ways in which we can be useful haven't showed themselves at all yet. They will develop, if war comes. We shall have to be alert and watchful, and do whatever there is to be done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who will be scoutmaster, sir, if you go t... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we'll have to make up our minds not to play many games for the time that is coming. There is real work ahead of us if war comes--work just as real and just as hard, in its way, as if we were all going to fight for England. Everyone cannot fight, but the ones who stay at ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blood is thicker than water, after all!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope this will pass over, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're going to stand with us, then, Fleming? he said, as Harry came up to shake hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, we must see what's wrong! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scouts, attention! Fall in! Double quick--follow me!"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Dutchy's place! cried Dick Mercer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a German, and they're trying to smash his place up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halt!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This won't do, he said, angry spots of color ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us in! We're here to protect you!"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For shame! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think you're doing anything for England? War's not declared yet--and, if it was, you might better be looking for German soldiers to shoot at than trying to hurt an old man who never did anyone any harm!"
},... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More of your Boy Scout work, sir? he said, pleasantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard you standing them off! That was very well done. If we can depend on you to help us all over London, we'll have an easier job than we looked for."
},
{
"from": "human... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was quick work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. I'm glad we got there, said Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Dutchy's all right--he doesn't seem like a German. But I think it would be a good thing if they did catch a few of the others a... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father's going to the war, he told Harry on Wednesday morning. He spoke very seriously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was a captain in the Boer War, you know, so he knows something about soldiering. He thinks he'll be taken, though he's a little older than mos... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he looked at her, and smiled. 'So you knew I was going?' he asked her. And she nodded her head, and he got up and kissed her. I never saw him do that before--he never did that before, when I was looking on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he'll come back al... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know much about this--more shame to me, he said, cheerfully, standing up to address the boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I think we can make a go of it--I think we'll be able to do something for the Empire, boys. My old friend John Grenfel told me a l... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think they'll take me, for one,"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see why you should go more than anyone else, Graves, said young Mercer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think they'll take the ones who are quickest. We're probably wanted for messenger work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm the oldest.... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's making a fine start, he heard him say to Fatty Wells, who was a great admirer of his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Picking out an _American_! Why, we're not even sure that he'll be loyal! Did you ever hear of such a thing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two--third class--for Ealing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the public service?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you don't need tickets, said the agent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo, young 'uns! said one of the officers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Off to the war?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're under orders, sir, he said, politely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, of course, they won't let us Scouts go... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut up, Cecil, said the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've said good-bye--that's an end of it! We've got other things to think of now. Here we are!"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are--here's a car! said the officer called Cecil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jump aboard, young 'uns! We know where you're going, right enough. Might as well save some time."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know your way about London?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are certain matters so important, so secret, that we are afraid to trust them to the telephone, the telegraph--even the post, if that were quick enough! In a short time we shall have weeded out all the spies. Until then we have to exercise the greatest care. And it has bee... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many of them do you suppose are going? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who will be in command? Sir John French, I think. Lord Kitchener is to be War Minister, they say, and stay in London. I bet they whip those bally Germans until they don't know where t... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we'll do that, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll walk across the bridge, and you can take the tube under the river from the Monument."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything happen to you? asked Harry, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I nearly got run over--but that was my own fault."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, nothing. I saw Graves. And he wanted to know what I was doing."
},
{
"from": "... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll let you take a message to Colonel Throckmorton for me, he said, then, giving them a kindly smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be a verbal message. You are to repeat what I tell you to him without a change. And I suppose I needn't tell you that... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got to go round, sir, the man explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Roads are all torn up the straight way, sir. Won't take much longer, sir."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something funny here, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, no matter what happens, pretend you think it's all right. Let anyone who speaks to us think we're foolish--it'll be easier for us to get away then. And keep your eyes wide open, if we stop any... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look there, Harry! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you see the sun flashing on something on the roof of that house over there? What do you suppose that is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whew! Harry whistled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll fix that in a jiffy,"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the officer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blow-out, sir, he said, touching his cap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm carrying these young gentlemen from Waterloo to Ealing, sir. Had to come around on account of the roads."
},
{
"f... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You watch one side. I'll take the other, said Harry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got to be able to find our way back to that house."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that? Eh, what's that? asked the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spy? This country's suffering from an epidemic of spy fever--that's what! Still--a taxicab driver, eh? Perhaps he's one of the many who's tried to overcharge me. I'll put him in the guard... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now tell me just why you suspect your driver. Explain exactly what happened, he said. He turned to a stenographer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take notes of this, Johnson,"
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're right--he was no Englishman! Go on!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've done very well, Fleming--that's your name?--very well, indeed, he said, heartily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I can get along! said Harry, stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose the steamers are fearfully crowded?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only about half of them are now in ser... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said I could pick out someone to go with me, Dick, Harry explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, of course, I'd rather have you than anyone I can think of. Will you come along?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will I! said Dick."
},
{
"f... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember that hill, said Harry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Jove--yes, there it is! On top of that hill, do you see? We won't go much nearer. I don't want them to see us, by any chance. All we need is to notice which way they're signalling."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you make of it, Dick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks to me as if they were flashing toward the north and a little toward the west,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way it seems to me, too, agreed Harry."
},
{
"from": "g... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The next station must be on this line somewhere, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll stick to it. There's a road, you see, that we can follow that's almost straight. And as soon as we come to a high building we ought to be able to see both flashes--the ones... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you are spying on my house, are you? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you lied to me yesterday! No troops were sent to Croydon at all!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you hadn't any business to ask us! said Dick, pluckily."
},
{
... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that was ripping, Harry! cried Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But do you think you've killed him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Killed him? No! said Harry, with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's tougher than that, Dick!... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't be too particular, said Harry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he brought it on himself. I'm afraid he'll have worse than this to face later on."
}
] |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe he'll get himself free very soon, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll be lucky if that knock on the head keeps him unconscious for a long time, because he'll wake up with a headache, and if he stays as he is, he won't know how uncomfortable ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope he'll be all right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll find him, I'm sure, said Harry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even if they don't, he'll be all right for a few days--two or three, anyhow. A man can be very uncomfortable and miserable, ... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far away do you think it ought to be, Harry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very hard to tell, Dick. A first-class heliograph is visible for a very long way, if the conditions are right. That is, if the sun is out and the ground is level. In South Africa, fo... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, boys, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, said Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd like to go up in your tower room, if you don't mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scouting, eh? said the old gentleman, mystified.... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's in code, of course, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's the other station answering! said Dick, excitedly, after a moment."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it lucky that it's such a fine day, Harry? See--there it is, over there!"
... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry, sir, said Harry, when the old gentleman pressed him too hard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I really think we mustn't tell you why we're here. But if you would like to hear of it later, we'll be glad to come to see you and explain everything."
},
... |
19957 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I've got it! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're clever enough to try to fool anyone who got on to their signalling. They would know what everyone would think--that they would be sending their messages to the East coast, because that is nearest to... |
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