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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just where were you when you heard the shot, as you claim?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no doubt of it, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do. And Donald detailed the incident, ending with this remark:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would seem to me only ordinary common sense that Tom should go gunning for me, and not I for h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have defied me long enough, McTavish, he snarled, his eyes gleaming with an ugly light," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you intend to do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall try you on this charge of murder." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Frenchies ought to be here with their supplies pretty soon, chief, the latter remarked;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect them any day, was the reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can we hold out a week longer?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--that is, gone into winter seclusion in some snowy corral farther north--and bears were enjoying their five or six months' nap beneath cozy tree-roots and five or six feet of snow. Caribou, always hard hunting, unless" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a man or a stick, she complained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor will I, until the business here is settled, Seguis retorted, in a tone of finality." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you expect me to leave this camp when the traders are expe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom may have been a fool, she croaked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You did your best, and Tom did his; I suppose it is up to me next. But why do you imagine I would be so glad if the captain was disposed of? I've nothing against him." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save the furs! Save the furs!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get the chief out of there! yelled someone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The walls will fall on him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, thank heaven, we saved the furs!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You saved 'em rather," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell the cook to make a couple of buckets of tea, and serve it around as soon as possible." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell the boys to get ready to march. I'll leave five here to guard the furs. The rest of us are going up to the Hudson Bay camp, and get food. If we don't, we'll starve to death, or get scurvy, or something. Tell everybody to be ready at ten o'clock." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What time is it, boys?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three o'clock, Mac," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Four or five hours more. That's what I hate, this waiting. I'll be mighty glad when I hear the steps outside." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It wouldn't get me off, if I did. Can't you see that Fitzpatrick is going to get me, even if he has to do it with his own hands? I did tell about going to Peter Rainy in the woods, and it only strengthened the circumstantial evidence. If I told of the other person I was with whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you don't confess that I was with you that night, I'll do it myself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Princess, if you do, I'll deny it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Donald, what about me? she had cried, weeping." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You haven't thought about me. You speak of your father and your mother and sister, but you haven't even mentioned me. Am I nothing to you? Oh, forgive me! I don't mean that! But, Donald, if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my lover, my boy, your hair is streaked with gray! Oh, my poor darling!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That, he said faintly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at him, Timmins, whispered Buxton in an awed whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you ever see a face with such glory in it all your life? He's seen something that you and I will never see, here or hereafter!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Mac-- Timmins began hesitatingly, and paused. Then, abruptly, he continued boldly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a proposition to make you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buxton and m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, do they keep their grub in this shack?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you in the corner, get up, and let's see who you are?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, by the great Lucifer, came the soft oath," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want? demanded Donald;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't take me away!--for I'm due to be hanged in the morning." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was going on in this place when I came in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were guarding McTavish." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was to be hanged to-morrow for the murder of Indian Tom." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire! he commanded gratingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kill every one of 'em. Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After 'em! snarled Fitzpatrick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't let one of 'em get away. We'll end this matter here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Jean." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To speak with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you come for that purpose especially?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep your distance, sir, the girl commanded, haughtily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am here, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whom do you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Captain McTavish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! she said, and she was silent for a moment, collecting herself." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is--Captain McTavish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On his way to Sturgeon Lake." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did he leave any message for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A letter that I have in my pocket." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just a moment, he said, withholding it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must read it here and now. I want to take it away with me. I must ask your promise in this matter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, tell me why you want this letter back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to take it to Captain McTavish, but I want you to write something on it first. You will pardon me if I ask if that was not a letter of farewell?" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must ask for the letter while you are gone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Write him a note of farewell, came the stolid command." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be the last message he will ever receive from you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you mean? You're not going to kill him?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, she muttered, between dry lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever happens to me, he must live." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, write as I suggest. Make it a command, not an entreaty. He'll obey you, and his life will be saved." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must read it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seguis, said the girl, when he prepared to go," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My motive and my desire in this matter, he replied feelingly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My own happiness! repeated the girl to herself, as she saw him disappear." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you fellows would get down to business, instead of wasting all winter fussing about us, you might have something like that brought into the fort when spring comes, yourselves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you see, returned Donald good-humoredly," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't travel in this weather, said one man, dolefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If this keeps up long, we won't see 'em till it's over. Honest, after this winter, I'll be surprised if I don't sprout fins, I've eaten so much fish." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thought I was done for in that storm, boys, said the aged _voyageur_ wagging his head," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laugh while you can, young McTavish, Maria croaked, suddenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It won't be for long." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not, old raven?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The right man is coming, she replied." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talk a lot, but you say little, he retorted, with a sneer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You make plenty of moves, but you accomplish nothing. That's a squaw every time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Accomplish nothing, eh, young McTavish? We shal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll help him, you say, if I can give the proof that I was McTavish's wife?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look in my eyes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Liar! I can see the treachery in your heart! Fool, to try to deceive me! I might have put trust in your words once; but now I know!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! The fool! The fool! If he only knew I almost showed him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to see you alone at the earliest opportunity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't I hear somebody call you McTavish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Son of the commissioner, are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I am. Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I used...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've seen that pile of furs over there, haven't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Thompson, the factor and I have had a lot of trouble this winter, and the chances are that we will have a lot more, but I want you to tell him that Donald McTavish sent you with those messages, and that I'm faithful to the Company through everything." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure; I spent an hour with 'em, and I don't think my estimate will be off more than a hundred skins. And, say, they're beauties, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Remember all I told you to tell Fitzpatrick." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. Now, to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, McTavish, why don't you make your get-away now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm on a hot trail of another sort here, was the curt answer;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As you can imagine, began Seguis evenly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it was delivered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "H-m, I see, he remarked...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is absurd, he said calmly, putting the letter in his pocket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is not Miss Fitzpatrick's handwriting." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must ask you to believe she wrote that message," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I refuse to go," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that final?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Absolutely!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, to-morrow, you start up the lake to the other camp. Seguis rose from his seat, indifferently....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No--she never told me. Seguis, in a dazed manner, indicated the camp where Maria still prowled about." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wh--who was he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The--the same as mine! The man who sits in the commissioner's chair to-da...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, I am the rightful heir of the commissioner?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Donald answered, bitterly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are everything and, by law, can have everything; I am no one, and, by the same law, can have nothing but ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let him enjoy his hour of triumph and dreaming, he thought, good-humoredly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've changed my mind, Seguis, about staying here any longer, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The other day, you promised to fit me out for the trail, if I wanted to go, and I've decided to take advantage of that offer, if it's still open." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Queek! Ze help! We must have him. I am of ze party _Français_. We haf been attack' an' captur' by ze Hudson Bay men. Only I haf escap'. By gar! Come! Eet is only five mile, maybe four. I will lead you. Come! Come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, boys, the game's up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mac, said Timmins," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; he's laid up at the old camp. You know that day you were captured, well, he was so mad at Seguis and his men that he lit out in the pursuit. He's ugly when he's mad, but he's too darned old to do them foolish things. When he came back, he was chilled, and what with getting o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hey! What's this?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seguis, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me talk a moment with my men, will you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll give you five minutes by the clock." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time's up! Donald snapped at last, shoving the watch back into the fur-lined pocket of his jacket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you going to do? Will you put down your arms peaceably, or shall I fire?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fire and b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, boys, we're in for it now, said Donald cheerfully, happier now that battle offered than he had been for many weeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've got us at a disadvantage, and the odds are four to one, so every shot must count." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're surrounding us, said Donald calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate to do it, but we'll have to use these furs after all, and a fur with a bullet hole in it isn't worth anything." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're probably going to try and carry our position with a charge. Shoot to kill, but don't shoot one man--Charley Seguis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Captain, he's the ringleader, cried Timmins, annoyed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's hoping, boys, was Donald's rejoinder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, their plan will probably be this: A stiff fire will suddenly be poured in from one quarter to draw our attention there. At the same time, a charge will start from the opposite side, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watch that firing, Timmins and Cameron, was the order." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The rest face the other way." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter there, boys?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ca'tridges no blame good! drawled Buxton, trying vainly to stanch the flow of blood where one of his fingers had been carried away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prob'ly they're center-fire ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want to pick up our dead and wounded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead. Are you ready to talk surrender yet? I can offer you every consideration, if you don't go on with your tactics." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick! rang Donald's alarmed voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Through the logs! Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold your fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't fire," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Water! Heavens, I wish I had some water!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, Tim, called one of the wounded men," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Same here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For heaven's sake, Cap, let me wing Seguis this time, won't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wing him, yes, but don't kill him. I've got a 'few things I want to straighten out with him, if we ever get out of here alive, and I don't want him dead when I do it, eith...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shoot slow and sure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm proud of you, lad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you came, was the simple reply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'd have done for us in another half-minute. I don't see why Seguis threw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, about the matter that brought me here. The father plunged into this delicate subject with his son fearlessly, but with a deep breath, like a man diving into cold water." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see, I've got to be pretty much alive if you and I are to ge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I thought about that, perhaps I pushed matters a little myself. The girl's parents were dead, and she was knocked around considerably by an old hag who hadn't the heart either to let her starve or to treat her kindly. Well, we fixed it up. I left the fort when the time came...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going out now, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've tired you enough. Try to rest, or Craven will give me the deuce for rousing you... Oh, by the way, Donald, I know all that's happened between you and Fitzpatrick. Rainy told me. I sent old Bill Thompson ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, father! cried Donald," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An old and loved friend of yours." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I've got a real friend except Peter Rainy, please show him in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Angus Fitzpatr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When did you first learn of this scandal concerning me, Fitzpatrick? he demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, lie down!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the middle of last summer, sir. Maria, the squaw, came to me with certain proof that made th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is that statement?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maria had it the last time I knew of its whereabouts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maria!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Douglas!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is that certificate?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let me see it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I refuse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You refuse, eh? The blue eyes darkened t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, Maria, interposed Donald, as the old woman framed a whining reply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, and be quick, or you'll have help you don't want," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please identify it, Fitzpatrick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's the same she showed me last summer, he said, after a careful examination." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would know the handwriting of Burns Riley, the missionary, anywhere." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I only had an ink-and-writing expert here! he groaned to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But that writing is Riley's all right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who's this man, Maria?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your legitimate s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, he said despairingly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Factors have too many ways of getting such things out of the way," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I mean, Fitzpatrick. You! snarled the commissioner, shaking a swift, accusing finger at the factor, who had raised himself on his elbow, his face purple." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You think you have gone on unobserved; and wonder why you were never promoted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, he said quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't stand this! the half-breed cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, commissioner! All of you listen! That certificate is a lie, and I can prove it. I--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Silence! roared McTavish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or I'll gag you with your own fist." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, go on, Seguis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a McTavish, sir, and I am proud of it; but it is that honorable blood that is this minute sending me back to the life I hate, and the oblivion I loathe. I can't lie here, and see you and Captain McTavish ruined. The Indian part of me says, 'Yes, take it; no one will ever kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My mother saw his plight, and the vague plan that had been in her mind took shape. There, in the snow, she forced the missionary at the price of his miserable life to agree to write that certificate, and, as soon as his fingers could hold the pen and dip it in the soot-ink of th...