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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A difficult climb, wheezed Fingers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A most difficult climb." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It hasn't always been like this, has it, Fingers? he said then, leaning a bit forward and speaking with a sudden, low-voiced seriousness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There was a time, twenty years ago, when you didn't puff after climbing a hill. Twenty years make ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have heard--about--Ben Tatman?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the beans and the potatoes were found in his cabin, and that was evidence enough. And then, just as they were about to go straight out into the blizzard that meant death within a few hours, then--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fingers, now and then a superman is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you, Kent, for your opinion of that man, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somehow, you haven't made me--ashamed. But it was only the shell of a man that won out after that day when I took Tatman's place. Something happened. I don't know what. But--you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! he breathed deeply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kent, I've been sitting down there on my porch a long time, and a good many strange things have come to me, but never anything like this. Oh, if it wasn't for this accursed flesh of mine!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, Kent, how I wish you had made it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was up all last night, said Fingers in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't dare move much in the day, or people will wonder. But, God bless my soul!--I did move last night, Kent. I must have walked ten miles, more or less. And things are coming--com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fingers is an--an apostate, he said, his lips twitching as if to keep back a denunciation still more emphatic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was sitting on his porch again this morning, half asleep, and says that after a great deal of thought he has come to the d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't make any disturbance, gentlemen, said Marette Radisson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The first man that makes a suspicious move, I shall kill!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have the key, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unlock the cell! Felly fumbled and produced the key. She watched him closely. Then suddenly the special constable dropped his arms with a coarse laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A pretty tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please put up your hands," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open the cell door!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open the door, or I shall kill you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lock them in the cell, Mr. Kent!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid--of thunder!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down there," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're home!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is safe, M'sieu Jeems, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be afraid!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are wet, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I am afraid you will catch cold. Come with me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please shake hands and say you're glad, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't look so--so--frightened. This is my room and you are safe here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--I don't understand, he struggled." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has just this moment occurred to me, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me for saying all that, he entreated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it's true. You came to me there, at Cardigan's place, like something I'd always dreamed about, but never expected to find. And you came to me again, at the cell, like--" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "YOU SHALL NOT!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I won't ask you questions, when you look at me like that, he said, finding his tongue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't ask you what this price is that Kedsty may demand, because you're not going to pay it. If you won't go with me, I won't go. I'd rather st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is nice of you, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad to hear you say it. I never knew how pleasant it was to have some one who was willing to be hung for me. But you will go. And I will not go. There isn't time to explain all about it just now, for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Mooie, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kedsty is coming!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must hide in them, if you have to, she said, the excited little tremble in her voice again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think it will come to that, but if it does, you must! Bury yourself way back in them, and keep quiet. If Kedsty finds you are here--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeems," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You--you didn't come down the stair?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You--didn't hear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I heard no words. Only Kedsty's voice...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is gone. We will light the lamp again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was very angry, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How easily some men lose their tempers, don't they--Jeems?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a splendid night--for us, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And we must go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the eyes of the law I am a murderer, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You saved me. You shot a man. In those ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard of that code, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A hundred years ago I should have been your slave. If it exists today, I am happy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not uncomfortable, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been here for a number of weeks, and nothing has happened to me. I am quite safe. Inspector Kedsty has not looked inside that door since the day your big red-headed friend saw me down in the pop...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish that I might answer those questions for you, she said, in a voice that was low and tired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to have you know, because I--I have great faith in you, Jeems. But I cannot. It is impossible. It is inconceivable. If I did-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You would find it--perhaps--because you are one who would not give up easily. Shall I tell you why I came to see you at Doctor Cardigan's? It was curiosity, at first--largely that. Just why or how I was interested in the man you freed is one of the things I can not tell you. And...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think I shall be disappointed if you don't find it, she said then, and her eyes were pure as the blue flowers from which they had stolen their color, as she looked at him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know the great Sulphur Country beyond Fort Simpson, westwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette, I am going to play this game as you want me to play it, because I love you. It is only honest for me to tell you in words what you must already know. And I am going to fight for you as long as there is a drop of blood in my body. If I go with Jean Laselle's brigade, wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can promise you nothing, no matter what you do. Jeems, Jeems, you are not like those other men I learned to hate? You will not INSIST? If you do--if you are like them--yes, you may go away from here tonight and not wait for Jean Laselle. Listen! The storm will not break for ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, Marette, I am not a murderer! I did not kill John Barkley!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't believe me, he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You believe that I killed Barkley, and that now--a murderer--I dare to tell you that I love ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not kill John Barkley!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not thinking of that, Jeems, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is of something--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inspector Kedsty is coming back, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not think he would do that--tonight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has not had time to go to barracks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. Possibly he has for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is an old storeroom, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have made it quite comfortable, I think. I have covered the window, so you may light the lamp. But you must see that no light shows under this door. Lock it on the inside, and be very quiet. For ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette, you believe me? he entreated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You believe that I love you, that I didn't kill John Barkley, that I am going to fight for you as long as God gives me breath to fight?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I think tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought--you would go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not without you, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to take you with me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the storm keeps up, we have three hours before dawn, he said....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You believe--that I killed Kedsty, she said in a voice that was forced from her lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you have come to help me--to pay me for what I tried to do for you? That is it--Jeems?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the moment I saw you I loved you, and I believe it was that love that kept me alive. And then you came to me again, down there, through this storm. Pay you! I can't. I never shall be able to. Because you thought I had killed a man made no difference You came just the same. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They couldn't! he cried, almost fiercely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I swear to God they couldn't!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You believe that, Jeems?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, just as you believe that I did not kill John B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must put it on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a scow at the bayou, Jeems. It is close to the end of the path. M'sieu Fingers has kept it there, waiting, ready." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you wet, little Gray Goose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only outside, Big Otter. My feathers have kept me dry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your nest, little Gray Goose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have been good to me, Jeems, she said, a little tremble in her voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may--kiss me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're off, Gray Goose, he said then, rubbing his hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would it seem more homelike if I smoked?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's pretty safe, said Kent, fishing out his pipe, and beginning to fill it." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The woods, the river, everywhere, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'll look for a missing boat, of course. We've simply got to watch behind us and take advantage of a good start." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will the rain wipe out our footp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh, but they are wet! she shivered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you unlace them and pull them off for me, Jeems?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cold--cold as ice, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must take off your stockings, Marette. Please." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are so good to me, Jeems," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is because I love you, Gray Goose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Gray Goose, please tell me now--what happened in Kedsty's room?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Gray Goose--what happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--don't--know--Jeems--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what happened, Jeems." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean--you were unconscious? he cried in a low voice that trembled with his eagerness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You fainted--and it happened then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. I was asleep in my room. I didn't intend to sleep, but--I did....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeems, if we should be caught by the Police--it would probably be quite soon, wouldn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They won't catch us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But our greatest danger of being caught is right now, isn't it?" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I expected that, he said cheerfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our scow is turning into a rain-barrel, Marette. Unless I bail out, we'll soon be flooded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It won't take me long to throw the water overboard, he added." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can hear the river's heart beat--if you know how to listen for it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look like a great bear, Jeems." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel like an elephant in a birdcage, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you comfortable, little Gray Goose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. But you, Jeems? Y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeems, she said softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not sorry--now--that I came up to Cardigan's place that day--when you thought you were dying. I wasn't wrong. You are different. And I made fun of you then, and laughed at you, because I knew that you were no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever you smell coffee and bacon at a cabin, O'Connor had always said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why didn't you wait? she remonstrated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wanted to surprise you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I couldn't wait. I had to come in and help." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad--glad, she cried softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Jeems--I'm glad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been a long time, Jeems. I have been away four years." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And now we are going home, little Gray Goose. You will not be lonely?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. I was lonely down there. There were so many people, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you love it, Jeems," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we hear the patrol before we reach the Chute, we'll still have time to run ashore, he assured her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And they won't catch us. We'll be harder to find than two needles in a haystack. But it's best to be prepared." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean, Jeems, that if one of three possible things doesn't happen, we'll get through safely?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None of them is possible--with us, he corrected himself quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've a tight little scow, we'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rapids at the head of the Chute! he cried, his voice vibrant with joy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've beat them out. WE'RE SAFE!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're safe, he repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you understand, Marette? WE'RE SAFE!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LISTEN!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't make the Chute, he said, his voice sounding hard and unreal to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we do, they'll be up with us before we can land at the other end. We must let this current drive us ashore--NOW." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll make it, he smiled confidently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll hit that timbered point close inshore. I don't see where the launch can make a landing anywhere within a mile of the Chute. And once ashore we'll make trail about five times as fast they can f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You beautiful little fighter, he cried exultantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You--you--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can swim, Jeems, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we strike the rock." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiss me, Jeems--kiss me--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm all right--Jeems!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're out of the worst of it, he tried to shout." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As soon as we've got our wind, I will climb over the rock to you. It won't take us longer than a couple of minutes, perhaps less, to make the quiet water at the end of the channel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette--my little goddess--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You go straight through between the sources of the North and the South Nahani, Marette had told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is there you find the Sulphur Country, and beyond the Sulphur Country is the Valley of Silent Men." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Silent Men!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is she? it asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she? Where is she?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette--Marette--Marette--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette--Marette--Marette--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marette--Marette--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeems--Jeems--Jeems--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had better take her now, m'sieu, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Malcolm--will tell you. And a little later,--you may see her again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiss me, Jeems--my Jeems--kiss me--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God you have come in time! he said, still holding Kent's hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She thought you were dead. And I know, Kent, that it was killing her. We had to watch her at night. Sometimes she would wander out into the valley. She said she was lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you probably came by way of Fort Simpson, Kent, and O'Connor has told you all this. It was he who brought Marette back home through the Sulphur Country." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O'Connor!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good God, do you mean to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was O'Connor who worked the thing out last Winter, he said, speaking with, an effort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must tell you before you see her again. You must understand everything. It will not do to have her tell you. See--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My brother, said McTrigger chokingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I loved him. For forty years we were comrades. And Marette belonged to us, half and half. It was he--who killed--John Barkley. And then, after a moment in which McTrigger fought to speak steadily, h...