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37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; you don't know him, he said, turning back to the worker at the mapping table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was his motor party that was camping at the Buckskin ford the night we broke in here--the night when we saw the search-light."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gold--placer gold!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Massingale had an axe to grind, of course. You may remember that Harding talked loosely about the Massingale opposition to the building of the dam. There was nothing in it. The opposition was purely personal and it wa... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what Harding did, but Smith, the Triangle-Circle foreman, tells me that Steve was on the war-path; he told Harding when he left, last summer, that if he ever came back to the Niquoia, he'd come to stay--and stay dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I nev... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Hosford and I represent the Niquoia Improvement Company as its manager and resident engineer, said the lounger, shifting the dead cigar from one corner of his hard-bitted mouth to the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're Brillard, the government ma... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're just like all the other government men I've ever had to do business with, Brouillard; pig-headed, obstinate, blind as bats to their own interests. I didn't especially want to begin by knocking you into line, but I guess it'll have to be done. In the first place, let me te... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been looking over your rules and regulations, Brouillard, he began, after an interval of silence which Brouillard had been careful not to break."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're making a capital mistake in trying to transplant the old Connecticut blue laws ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Brouillard, I saw one little girl to-day that didn't belong to your workmen's-family outfit, and she's a peach; came riding down the trail with her brother from that mine up on the south mountain--Massingale's, isn't it? By Jove! she fairly made my mouth water!"
},
{
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'll be damned! he broke out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you're _that_ kind of a fire-eater, are you? Lord, Lord! I didn't suppose anything like that ever happened outside of the ten-cent shockers. Wake up, man; this is the twentieth century we're living... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here are the drawings for your power installation, Mr. Hosford,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do get your point of view--sometimes, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say that I have had it now and then in times past. Civilization, or what stands for it, does have a way of shrinking into littleness, not to say... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egoism is merely another name for the expression of a vital need,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may put it in that way if you please, she returned gravely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your need?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it date back to the handicap? You needn't tell me if you don't want to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does. And there is no reason why I shouldn't tell you the simple fact. When my father died he left me a debt--a debt of honor; and it must be paid. Until it... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you know? he queried curiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It does change things; it has changed them fiercely in the past few weeks. We smile at the old fable of a man selling his soul for a ready-money consideration, but there are times when I'd sell an... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must be going back down the hill, he said. And then, without warning:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What if I should tell you that the railroad is not coming to the Niquoia, Amy?"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shouldn't hit out like that when one isn't looking; it's wicked, she protested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, the railroad _is_ coming; it's got to come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is still undecided, he told her mechanically."
},... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you hadn't said that, Amy--about the ideals."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why shouldn't I say it? I _had_ to say it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't afford to play with too many fine distinctions. I have accepted the one great handicap. ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't cry; I was a brute to say such a thing as that to you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she denied bravely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The truth may hurt--it _does_ hurt awfully; but it can't be brutal. And you are right. Stevie _has_ made i... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is your own opinion that I want, Victor, the fair-faced man was saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've had it out with Cortwright? Brouillard asked. And then:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is he now? in Chicago?"
},
{
"from": "g... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, I was quite prepared to have you stand off and throw stones at our little cob house of a venture, Brouillard, the host allowed at the lighting of the gold-banded cigars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're the government engineer and the builder of the b... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That brings us down to business, Brouillard. I don't mind admitting that I had an object in asking you to dine with me this evening. It's this: we feel that in the reorganization of the power company the government, which will always be the largest consumer, should be represente... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We discussed that phase of it in the directors' meeting this morning, continued the hypnotist smoothly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have found your man, Mr. Cortwright?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't have very far to go. You see, I knew ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't serve as your engineer, Mr. Cortwright, not even in a consulting capacity. Call it prejudice or anything you please, but I simply couldn't do business in an associate relation with your man Hosford."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know, Brouillard, H... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ze dinnare--she was h-all right, M'sieu' Brouillard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As right as the price you're going to charge Mr. Cortwright for it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "swore the amiable one, spreading his hands,"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mirapolis!"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell's-Fire among his workmen, with the promise of attaining, in due time, to the more affectionate title of"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, my dear Brouillard! what in Sam Hill do you take us for? was the genial retort when the young engineer had made his deprecatory protest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you think we were going to cut the melon and hand you out a piece of the rind? Not so, my ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have the report to-morrow, said the newly created consulting engineer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, conceded the city builder,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a wonder, Mr. Cortwright,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catching you, too, is it, Victor? queried the hydrographer, dropping easily into his attitude of affable cynicism."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it would. But tell me, what are some of the things that may happen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going motoring, you said--with Miss Genevieve. That's another change. I'm beginning to believe in your seven-year hypothesis. You are no longer a woman-hater."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never was one. There isn't any such thing."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull up a chair and have a cigar, said the great man when Brouillard had penetrated to the nerve-centre of the Mirapolitan activities in the Metropole suite and the two stenographers had been curtly dismissed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you heard the talk of... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid you are right, he said thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've had a good many applications from men hunting work in the past two days, more than would be accounted for by the usual drift from the railroad camps."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right, Brouillard; Mirapolis is only a good joke, after all. Sometimes I get bamfoozled into the idea that it isn't--that it's the real thing. That's bad for the nerves. But about this railroad fizzle; I don't relish the notion of having our little joke sprung on us befor... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Buckskin people, yes, he said, making talk as the rifleman digs a pit to hold his own on the firing-line."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they should happen to uncover a gold reef just now it would simplify matters immensely for Mirapolis, wouldn't it? The rail... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here, he called curtly, with a quick finger crook for the engineer, and when Brouillard joined him:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you size up that little caucus over yonder?"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks like a run on a bank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is, was the crisp reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Garner has beaten everybody else to the home plate, but he couldn't keep his mouth shut. He's been talking, and every man in that mo... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are selling Mirapolis holdings short to-day, Garner? he asked when he had pushed through the crowd to the speculator's desk. And when Garner laughed and said there were no takers he placed his order promptly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may bid in for me, ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's done, he announced shortly, adding:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only a stop-gap. To make the bluff good, you've got to have the railroad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the talk, said the promoter, relighting the cigar which th... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why the devil didn't you fellows turn out? he demanded savagely of Leshington, Anson, and Grislow, who were lounging in the office and very pointedly waiting for the lightning to strike."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gassman and I have done everything but commit col... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks as if the chief had gone with the crowd, said Leshington when the silence had grown almost portentous,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Levy won't tell who gave him those nuggets to put in his window. I tried him. All he will say is that the man who left the s... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good God! he mused,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is the fourth different excuse you have invented for cutting me out of your visiting list, not counting the repetitions, she gibed, when he had finally fallen back upon the time demands of his work to account for his late neglect of her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see--after so long a time, he went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your brother merely 'salted' a few shovelfuls of sand for my especial benefit. Great Heavens, but I was an easy mark!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! she cried, and the tears ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord! the machinery has stopped! They've knocked off work on the dam!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you imagine that your workmen were any less human than other people?"
},
{
"from": "g... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shove it for every minute of daylight there is left, he ordered, snapping out his commands to his staff while he was filling the magazine of his Winchester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Puddle what material there is in the forms, dump the telpher buckets where they... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give us a job if we come back to-morrow, Mr. Brouillard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thus endeth the first lesson,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boss is taking it pretty hard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The least said is the soonest mended--at a funeral, was the form the first assistant's rebuke took."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You take my advice and don't mess or meddle with the chi... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you've done it. Three men have just come in with a double handful of nuggets, and Mirapolis makes its bow to the world at large as the newest and richest of the gold camps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It can't be; Grizzy, I tell you it can't be! Steve Massin... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light the blue one when you are ready to send me my message of cheer...."
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take me out of your mind and heart and say which you will have, little girl,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is your message of cheer, whether you take it that way or not,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or choice"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Modern City Building."
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you could be so convincing, was Miss Genevieve's comment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was splendid! Nobody will ever believe that you are going to go on building your dam and threatening to drown us, after this."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The snow-capped Timanyonis,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Murray is stubbornly honest, he agreed; adding:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is too good for this world, or rather for this little cross-section of Pandemonium named Mirapolis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which, inasmuch as we are making Mi... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brouillard, this is simply hideous! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If this devils' carnival goes on until nightfall we shall have a revival of the old Roman Saturnalia at its worst! Then, with a swift blow at the heart of the matter:"
},
{
"from... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was little less than a crime to turn your laborers loose on the town on such an occasion as this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I hadn't given them the day they would have taken it without leave. You'll have to pass the responsibility on to some one higher up.... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely Smith wouldn't let her stay down here a minute longer than it took to get her away, he said impatiently as a pair of drunken Cornishmen reeled out of Haley's Place and usurped the sidewalk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where was it you saw them, Castner?"
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn me loose, he gritted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll fix him so he won't give the governor's snap away! He'll pipe the story of the Coronida Grant off to the papers?--not if I kill him till he's too dead to bury, I guess."
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Cortwright would like to see you in his rooms at the Metropole,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, was the millionaire's greeting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? said Brouillard shortly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have my work to do and you have yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the two jobs are at opposite en... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been putting it off to see which way the cat was going to jump, he admitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If young Massingale is out of danger, it is time to get action. What was the quarrel about, between him and Van Bruce?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Damn you! said the magnate savagely;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you have bargained with me, first, last, and all the time, was the cool retort."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On each occasion I have had my price, and you have paid it. Now you ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forget it, he growled morosely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want this time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want you to send a wire to Red Butte telling the smelter people that you will be glad to have them handle the 'Little Susan' ore.... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are improving wonderfully, Brouillard, and that's no joke. I have a large respect for a man who can outbid me in my own corner. You ought to be in business--and you will be, some time. I'll send the wire, but I warn you in advance that I can't make the smelter people take Ma... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How fortunate! she exclaimed, with the charming smile that accorded so perfectly with her fresh, early-morning radiance. And while the hand of greeting still lay in Brouillard's:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have just been up to your office, and they told me they... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me one thing, Brouillard: what is your stake in the Massingale game? Are you a silent partner in the 'Little Susan'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why are you so anxious to make old David a rich man at my ex... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Congressional committee --penetrating to the Wonder City, not by special train, to be sure, but still with creditable circumstance in President Ford's private car"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nadia,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nadia,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "News! gasped the editor, when he had broken into the privacies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're about to mob us over at the office, and the town will go crazy if it can't be given at least a hint of what the committee's report is likely to be. I tell you, Mr. ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you know, Brouillard? was the form his demand took when, finding that the elevator had stopped, he had dragged himself up the five flights of stairs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm up against it good and hard if I can't print something in to-morrow's pape... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not for publication, Harlan, I'm sorry to say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you have the order?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know the reason why it was given?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm buying, Harlan; when I sell it is only to buy again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a man and a brother, Brouillard, and I'm your friend for life. With only a fraction of your chance at inside information, I've stayed on the up-hill side, straight through,... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curb"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pity a man has to stop to eat on a day like this, isn't it, Mr. Massingale? he laughed; and then:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't hurry. There's another day coming; or if there isn't, we'll all be in the same boat. How is Steve?"
},
{
"from": "human... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello! Is that Boyer--Niquoia National?... This is Brouillard. Can you give me my present figure?... Not more than that?... Oh, yes; you say the Hillman check is in; I had overlooked it. All right, thank you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Massingale, I'm going t... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you--are you _plumb_ sure you can spare it? asked the debtor huskily. And then:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cayn't seem to sort o' surround it--all in a bunch, that way. I knowed J. Wesley had me down; knowed it in less 'n a week after he sprung his trap. He... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say you're goin' down to the Buckskin right away? How 'm I goin' to secure you for this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can talk about that later on, after I come back. The thing to do now is to get those notes cancelled and that stock released before bank-clo... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The day fits us like a glove, was the comment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With all the money that is changing hands in the street, Hardwick won't wonder at your sudden raise or at my check. Then he put in the word of warning:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you, Mr. Massingale? Glad to see you. How is the boy getting along? First rate, I hope?"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've come to take up them notes o' mine with John Wes.'s name on 'em,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes; let me see; are they due to-day?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm, yes, here they are. Brought the cash, did you? The 'Little Susan' has begu... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Gash! I'd like to try that old system o' mine jest one more time! he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All it takes is money enough to foller it up and _stay_. And I've _got_ the money. Besides, didn't Brouillard say I was to get an extension if I could?"
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Victor, you said you would come if I needed you: I need you now."
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Victor? she said, coming quickly to meet him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Murray Grislow said you had gone down to the Buckskin camps and wouldn't be back for two or three days!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grizzy told the truth--as it stood a... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say you saw the money in father's hands; tell me, Victor, did you see him pay it into the bank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, no; not the final detail. But, as I say, when I left him he was on his way to Hardwick's window."
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go and find him, she said with quiet resolution."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you go with me, Victor? Perhaps that is why I--the subconscious I--called you a little while ago. Let's not wait for the Quadjenàï car. I'd rather walk, and we'll save time."
... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Amy, he said firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mustn't go in there. Let me take you around to the Metropole, and then I'll come back alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been in worse places, she returned in low tones. And then, wit... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all gone, little girl; it's all gone!"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and its ring of silent players, lay beyond the baize doors. At the nearest of the tables there was a stir, and the dealer stopped running the cards. Somebody said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let him get out,"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all gone, little girl; it's all gone!"
}
] |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You just keep your eye on Brouillard and steer your own boat accordingly, was the way Editor Harlan put it to one of the timid ones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He knows it all, backward and forward, and from the middle both ways; you can bet your final dollar on ... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somebody was telling me that you let out another batch of your Buckskin ditch diggers to-day, Brouillard, he began. And then, without any bush beating, the critical question was fired point-blank:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What becomes of all these fellows you a... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Brouillard! said the magnate jocosely, indicating a chair and the never-absent open box of cigars in the same gesture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're getting to be as much of a stranger as a man might wish his worst enemy to be. Gene says you are neglec... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told you a good while ago that I was only the government's hired man, he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You doubtless have much better information than any I can give you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can tell me what your orders are--t... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is scarcely a fair question--even between armed neutrals, he objected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you want to know?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm asking because you have just proposed the non-interference policy, and I'd like to kno... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a gambler's bet and a rather desperate one, he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You stand to win all or to lose all in making it, Mr. Cortwright. The town is balancing on the knife-edge of a panic at this moment. Would it go up, or down, with a sudde... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more you are just the man I have been wanting to see, the young missionary began, promptly making use of the chance meeting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May I break in with a bit of bad news?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no such thing... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I gave you fair warning; I'm not looking for a chance to play the Good Samaritan to anybody--not even to Stephen Massingale, much less Van Bruce Cortwright. The reason is because I have a pretty decent back-load of my own to carry. Come up to my rooms if you can spare a few minu... |
37249 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You fellows claim to hold the keys of the conscience shop; suppose you open up and dole out a little of the precious commodity to me, Castner. Is it ever justifiable to do evil that good may come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
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