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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Report your relief, Rowland, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Engineer felt no jar in the engine-room, sir; and there's no excitement in the stokehold." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you watchmen report no alarm in the cabins. How about the steerage? Is that man back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All asleep in the steerage, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, said the captain, rising;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Rowland," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I understand, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir; and I reported the ship as soon as I saw her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are not here to be censured. You are aware, of course, that nothing could be done, either to avert this terrible calamity, or to save life afterward." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing at a speed of twenty-five knots an hour in a thick fog, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will not discuss the speed of the ship, my good man, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "On the contrary, captain, I shall not receive it. On the contrary, sir, I shall speak of this wholesale murder at the first opportunity!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you aware, Rowland, he asked, quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am aware of more than that, answered Rowland, excitedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know of the power vested in you as captain. I know that you can order me into irons from this room for any offense you wish to imagine. And I know that an unwitnessed, uncorroborated entry in your official log concerning me would be evidence enough to bring me life imprisonment. But I also know something of admiralty law; that from my prison cell I can send you and your first officer to the gallows." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mistaken in your conceptions of evidence. I could not cause your conviction by a log-book entry; nor could you, from a prison, injure me. What are you, may I ask--an ex-lawyer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A graduate of Annapolis. Your equal in professional technic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you have interest at Washington?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "None whatever." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what is your object in taking this stand--which can do you no possible good, though certainly not the harm you speak of?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That I may do one good, strong act in my useless life--that I may help to arouse such a sentiment of anger in the two countries as will forever end this wanton destruction of life and property for the sake of speed--that will save the hundreds of fishing-craft, and others, run down yearly, to their owners, and the crews to their families." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A result to be hoped for, Rowland, said the former, pausing before him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can fill a higher; and your company is not rich enough to buy me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You seem to be a man without ambition; but you must have wants." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Food, clothing, shelter--and whisky," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is one of your wants; fill up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will drink with you, Rowland, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He tossed off the liquor; then Rowland, who had waited, said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer drinking alone, captain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go on deck, now, Rowland, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will talk with you again before we reach soundings. Meanwhile, I request--not require, but request--that you hold no useless conversation with your shipmates in regard to this matter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is a broken-down wreck with a temporarily active conscience; but is not the man to buy or intimidate: he knows too much. However, we've found his weak point. If he gets snakes before we dock, his testimony is worthless. Fill him up and I'll see the surgeon, and study up on drugs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, captain, he thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wunned 'way, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wunned 'way from mamma." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, little one, you must run back to mamma. You're in bad company. The innocent eyes smiled into his own, and then--a foolish proceeding, which only bachelors are guilty of--he held her above the rail in jesting menace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I drop you over to the fishes, baby?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is her child, he groaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was the mother-look. She is married--married." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you say, colonel, said the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is--or was once--a rejected admirer of Mrs. Selfridge. That is all I know of him--except that he has hinted at revenge. My wife is certain of what she saw, and I think the man should be confined." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, captain, said the woman, vehemently, as she hugged her child," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg you will give yourself no uneasiness, madam, said the captain, gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have already learned something of his antecedents--that he is a disgraced and broken-down naval officer; but, as he has sailed three voyages with us, I had credited his willingness to work before-the-mast to his craving for liquor, which he could not satisfy without money. However--as you think--he may be following you. Was he able to learn of your movements--that you were to take passage in this ship?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not? exclaimed the husband;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, she said, eagerly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard him spoken of, several times." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then it is clear, said the captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you will agree, madam, to testify against him in the English courts, I will immediately put him in irons for attempted murder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do, captain, she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot feel safe while he is at liberty. Of course I will testify." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever you do, captain, said the husband, savagely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will see that he is attended to, colonel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of painting life-buoys in the warm 'tween-deck, was shrewd enough to know that he was being closely watched by the boatswain that morning, but not shrewd enough to affect any symptoms of intoxication or drugging, which might have satisfied his anxious superiors and brought him more whisky. As a result of his brighter eyes and steadier voice--due to the curative sea air--when he turned out for the first dog-watch on deck at four o'clock, the captain and boatswain held an interview in the chart-room, in which the former said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not be alarmed. It is not poison. He is half-way into the horrors now, and this will merely bring them on. He will see snakes, ghosts, goblins, shipwrecks, fire, and all sorts of things. It works in two or three hours. Just drop it into his drinking pot while the port forecastle is empty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rowland, said the big boatswain, as the watch mustered on deck;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not my trick, boats'n," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Orders from the bridge. Get up there." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rowland, he said as he drew near;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear you've walked the quarter-deck." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot imagine how you learned it, sir, replied Rowland;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not in the habit of referring to it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You told the captain. I suppose the curriculum is as complete at Annapolis as at the Royal Naval College. What do you think of Maury's theories of currents?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They seem plausible, said Rowland, unconsciously dropping the" }, { "from": "human", "value": ";" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I think so myself. Did you ever follow up another idea of his--that of locating the position of ice in a fog by the rate of decrease in temperature as approached?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not to any definite result. But it seems to be only a matter of calculation, and time to calculate. Cold is negative heat, and can be treated like radiant energy, decreasing as the square of the distance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Must have a cast-iron stomach, he muttered, as he peered into the binnacle;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder, he said to himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long, he mused," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He stopped in his walk and leaned against the bridge railing, with eyes fixed on the fog ahead. He was speaking his thoughts aloud now, and the first officer drew within hearing, listened a moment, and went back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Working on him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And they talk, went on Rowland, as the three watched and listened;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he burst into a fit of incongruous laughter, which stopped short as he clapped his hands to his stomach and then to his head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What ails me? he gasped;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel as though I had swallowed hot coals--and my head--and my eyes--I can't see. The pain left him in a moment and the laughter returned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's wrong with the starboard anchor? It's moving. It's changing. It's a--what? What on earth is it? On end--and the windlass--and the spare anchors--and the davits--all alive--all moving." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've drugged me" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why must it haunt me through the years? he groaned;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The survival of the fittest, he rambled, as he stared into the fog;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He lifted his hand and spoke loudly, as though to some unseen familiar of the deep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will be the last effect? Where in the scheme of ultimate balance--under the law of the correlation of energy, will my wasted wealth of love be gathered, and weighed, and credited? What will balance it, and where will I be? Myra,--Myra, he called;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Myra,--Myra." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come back, she called;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it seemed that the two could not understand; for again he heard the despairing cry:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Myra, Myra, where are you? and again the answer:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come back. Come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have we here, Rowland?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Myra's child, sir; it's asleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is Myra? asked the officer in a bullying tone, in which were also chagrin and disappointment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've been asleep yourself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ice, yelled the lookout;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The first officer ran amidships, and the captain, who had remained there, sprang to the engine-room telegraph, and this time the lever was turned. But in five seconds the bow of the _Titan_ began to lift, and ahead, and on either hand, could be seen, through the fog, a field of ice, which arose in an incline to a hundred feet high in her track. The music in the theater ceased, and among the babel of shouts and cries, and the deafening noise of steel, scraping and crashing over ice, Rowland heard the agonized voice of a woman crying from the bridge steps:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Myra--Myra, where are you? Come back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want mamma," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, baby, hush, he answered, wearily and bitterly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be afraid, now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll keep it, he muttered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go back, baby, go back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll very likely get well, he mused, gloomily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Millions have believed this--that prayers are answered--and these millions have prayed to different gods. Were they all wrong or all right? Would a tentative prayer be listened to? Admitting that the Bibles, and Korans, and Vedas, are misleading and unreliable, may there not be an unseen, unknown Being, who knows my heart--who is watching me now? If so, this Being gave me my reason, which doubts Him, and on Him is the responsibility. And would this being, if he exists, overlook a defect for which I am not to blame, and listen to a prayer from me, based on the mere chance that I might be mistaken? Can an unbeliever, in the full strength of his reasoning powers, come to such trouble that he can no longer stand alone, but must cry for help to an imagined power? Can such time come to a sane man--to me? He looked at the dark line of vacant horizon. It was seven miles away; New York was nine hundred; the moon in the east over two hundred thousand, and the stars above, any number of billions. He was alone, with a sleeping child, a dead bear, and the Unknown. He walked softly to the boat and looked at the little one for a moment; then, raising his head, he whispered:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For you, Myra." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bark ahoy! Bark ahoy! Take us off," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wake up, Myra, he cried, as he lifted the child;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We goin' to mamma?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, we're going to mamma, now--that is, he added to himself;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That bark was there--half a mile back in this wind--before I thought of praying. Is that prayer answered? Is she safe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "City, the apartment is known as the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Room, and the functionary, as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Caller," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My daughter-in-law is safe; but where is my son,--where is my son, and my grandchild? Then he had hurried away, but was back again the next day, and the next. And when, on the tenth day of waiting and watching, he learned of another boat-load of sailors and children arrived at Gibraltar, he shook his head, slowly, muttering:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "George, George," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Abraham, he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hard hit, Meyer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ten thousand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Serve you right, said another, unkindly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life-buoy of _Royal Age_, London, picked up among wreckage in Lat. 45-20, N. Lon. 54-31, W. Ship _Arctic_, Boston, Capt. Brandt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, mine good God," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor devil--poor damn fool of an Israelite, said one observer to another." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He covered the whole of the _Royal Age_, and the biggest chunk of the _Titan_. It'll take his wife's diamonds to settle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read it, Meyer--read it. What d'you think of it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John Rowland, sailor of the _Titan_, with child passenger, name unknown, on board _Peerless_, Bath, at Christiansand, Norway. Both dangerously ill. Rowland speaks of ship cut in half night before loss of _Titan_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you make of it, Meyer--_Royal Age_, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, vociferated another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've figured back. Only ship not reported lately. Overdue two months. Was spoken same day fifty miles east of that iceberg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure thing, said others." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing said about it in the captain's statement--looks queer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vell, vwhat of it, said Mr. Meyer, painfully and stupidly:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why did the captain conceal it? they shouted at him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's his object--assured against collision suits?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Der looks of it, berhaps--looks pad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, Meyer, what's the matter with you? Which one of the lost tribes did you spring from--you're like none of your race--drinking yourself stupid like a good Christian. I've got a thousand on the _Titan_, and if I'm to pay it I want to know why. You've got the heaviest risk and the brain to fight for it--you've got to do it. Go home, straighten up, and attend to this. We'll watch Rowland till you take hold. We're all caught." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Mr. Selfridge, he said, scarcely looking up;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you have come to see der insurance paid over. Der sixty days are up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, Mr. Meyer, said the old gentleman, wearily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is very sad, Mr. Selfridge; you have my deepest sympathy. I pelieve you are der largest holder of _Titan_ stock--about one hundred thousand, is it not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "About that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am der heaviest insurer; so Mr. Selfridge, this battle will be largely petween you and myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Battle--is there to be any difficulty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Berhaps--I do not know. Der underwriters and outside companies have blaced matters in my hands and will not bay until I take der initiative. We must hear from one John Rowland, who, with a little child, was rescued from der berg and taken to Christiansand. He has been too sick to leave der ship which found him and is coming up der Thames in her this morning. I have a carriage at der dock and expect him at my office py noon. Dere is where we will dransact this little pizness--not here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A child--saved, queried the old gentleman;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I am a ruined man if it is, said Mr. Meyer, rising." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you come around to der office, Mr. Selfridge? I expect der attorney and Captain Bryce are dere now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now then, gentlemen, said Mr. Meyer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I pelieve we can broceed to pizness up to a certain point--berhaps further. Mr. Thompson, you have the affidavit of Captain Bryce?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And in this statement, captain, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he added, with an oily smile, as he noticed the paling of the captain's face--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is what I swore to," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are part owner, are you not, Captain Bryce?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I own five shares of the company's stock." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have examined der charter and der company lists, said Mr. Meyer;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean, sir, by that word responsible?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do I mean, Captain Bryce? he thundered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean that you have concealed in your sworn statement all reference to der fact that you collided with and sunk the ship _Royal Age_ on der night before the wreck of your own ship." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who says so--how do you know it? blustered the captain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have only that bulletin statement of the man Rowland--an irresponsible drunkard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The man was lifted aboard drunk at New York, broke in the first officer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, added Captain Bryce," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've brought him, half dead; but why couldn't you give me time to dock my ship? A mate can't do everything." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And this is Captain Barry, of der _Peerless_, said Mr. Meyer, taking his hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is all right, my friend; you will not lose. And this is Mr. Rowland--and this is der little child. Sit down, my friend. I congratulate you on your escape." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, said Rowland, weakly, as he seated himself;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is her name?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her first name is Myra, answered Rowland." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She remembers that; but I have not learned her last name, though I knew her mother years ago--before her marriage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Myra, Myra, repeated the old gentleman;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gwampa," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, God, I thank thee, murmured Mr. Selfridge, taking her in his arms." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have lost my son, but I have found his child--my granddaughter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, sir, asked Rowland, eagerly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The mother is safe--in New York; but the father, my son, has not yet been heard from," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I trust, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Selfridge--which, of course, is my own name. Mrs. Colonel, or Mrs. George Selfridge. Our New York address is well known. But I shall cable her at once; and, believe me, sir, although I can understand that our debt to you cannot be named in terms of money, you need not be penniless long. You are evidently a capable man, and I have wealth and influence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vealth and influence. Berhaps not. Now, gentlemen, he added, in a louder tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was it the _Royal Age_? asked Rowland." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I sailed in her one voyage. Yes, certainly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vell, gentlemen, vwhat do you think of that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lie, from beginning to end," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw a polar bear that this man killed in open fight. I saw his arm afterward, and while nursing him away from death I heard no whines or complaints. He can fight his own battles when well, and when sick I'll do it for him. If you insult him again in my presence I'll knock your teeth down your throat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whether this story is true or false, it certainly has no bearing on the validity of the policy. If this happened, it was after the policy attached and before the wreck of the _Titan_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But der concealment--der concealment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has no bearing, either. If he concealed anything it was done after the wreck, and after your liability was confirmed. It was not even barratry. You must pay this insurance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will not bay it. I will not. I will fight you in der courts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And even if der concealment will not vitiate der policy, der fact that he had a drunken man on lookout when der _Titan_ struck der iceberg will be enough. Go ahead and sue. I will not pay. He was part owner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have no witnesses to that admission," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Bryce was mistaken, said Mr. Austen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This man was drunk at New York, like others of the crew. But he was sober and competent when on lookout. I discussed theories of navigation with him during his trick on the bridge that night and he spoke intelligently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you yourself said, not ten minutes ago, that this man was in a state of delirium tremens up to der collision," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What I said and what I will admit under oath are two different things, said the officer, desperately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may have said anything under the excitement of the moment--when we were accused of such an infamous crime. I say now, that John Rowland, whatever may have been his condition on the preceding night, was a sober and competent lookout at the time of the wreck of the _Titan_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not think it will be necessary to brand me before the world as an inebriate in order to punish the company and these men. Barratry, as I understand it, is the unlawful act of a captain or crew at sea, causing damage or loss; and it only applies when the parties are purely employees. Did I understand rightly--that Captain Bryce was part owner of the _Titan_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Mr. Meyer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And an unlawful act, went on Rowland," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, said Mr. Meyer, eagerly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were drunk on der lookout--you were raving drunk, as he said himself. You will swear to this, will you not, my friend? It is bad faith with der underwriters. It annuls der insurance. You admit this, Mr. Thompson, do you not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is law," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was Mr. Austen a part owner, also?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One share, is it not, Mr. Austen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, for drugging a sailor into a stupor, and having him on lookout out of his turn while in that condition, and at the moment when the _Titan_ struck the iceberg, Captain Bryce and Mr. Austen have, as part owners, committed an act which nullifies the insurance on that ship." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You infernal, lying scoundrel!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you to look out, said Captain Barry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Treat my friend respectfully." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dammy, she cried, as she struggled to go to him;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want Dammy--Dammy--Da-a-may." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what a pad little girl, said the jocular Mr. Meyer, looking down on her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did you learn such language?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is my nickname, said Rowland, smiling in spite of himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has coined the word, he explained to the agitated Mr. Selfridge, who had not yet comprehended what had happened;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my friend, said Mr. Meyer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I have studied it all out, he said, in conclusion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was drugged--I believe, with hasheesh, which makes a man see strange things--and brought up on the bridge lookout where I could be watched and my ravings listened to and recorded, for the sole purpose of discrediting my threatened testimony in regard to the collision of the night before. But I was only half-drugged, as I spilled part of my tea at supper. In that tea, I am positive, was the hasheesh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know all about it, don't you, snarled Captain Bryce, from his chair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Self-convicted, said Rowland, with a quiet laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hasheesh is made from Indian hemp." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You hear this, gentlemen, exclaimed Mr. Meyer, springing to his feet and facing everybody in turn. He pounced on Captain Barry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You hear this confession, captain; you hear him say Indian hemp? I have a witness now, Mr. Thompson. Go right on with your suit. You hear him, Captain Barry. You are disinterested. You are a witness. You hear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I heard it--the murdering scoundrel," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are the poorest fool I know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "England is a fine country, my friends--a fine country to leave pehind sometimes. Dere is Canada, and der United States, and Australia, and South Africa--all fine countries, too--fine countries to go to with new names. My friends, you will be bulletined and listed at Lloyds in less than half an hour, and you will never again sail under der English flag as officers. And, my friends, let me say, that in half an hour after you are bulletined, all Scotland Yard will be looking for you. But my door is not locked." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you reached a settlement, Mr. Meyer? Will the insurance be paid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, roared the underwriter, in the ear of the puzzled old gentleman; while he slapped him vigorously on the back;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not at all, said Rowland." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her lights were burning--look to the old gentleman, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for him. Catch him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heart failure, said Rowland, as he knelt by his side." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send for a doctor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Send for a doctor, repeated Mr. Meyer through the door to his clerks;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sudden emotion of some kind, said the doctor when he did arrive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Violent emotion, too. Hear bad news?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bad and good, answered the underwriter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, in learning that this dear little girl was his granddaughter--bad, in learning that he was a ruined man. He was der heaviest stockholder in der _Titan_. One hundred thousand pounds, he owned, of der stock, all of which this poor, dear little child will not get." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, he said, as he turned to watch the doctor leave the room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is this so, Mr. Meyer, he added to the underwriter," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he would have been a poor man. He had invested his last farthing--one hundred thousand pounds. And if he had left any more it would be assessed to make good his share of what der company must bay for der _Royal Age_, which I also insured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was there a collision clause in the _Titan's_ policy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dere was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you took the risk, knowing that she was to run the Northern Lane at full speed through fog and snow?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I did--so did others." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, Mr. Meyer, it remains for me to tell you that the insurance on the _Titan_ will be paid, as well as any liabilities included in and specified by the collision clause in the policy. In short, I, the one man who can prevent it, refuse to testify." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vwhat-a-t?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will not testify? Vwhat you mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What I said; and I do not feel called upon to give you my reasons, Mr. Meyer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My good friend," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mine goot Gott, he shouted, relapsing in his excitement into the more pronounced dialect of his race;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Open that door," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, open it, repeated Captain Barry, his puzzled face clearing at the prospect of action on his part." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Open it or I'll kick it down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you, mine friend--heard der admission of der captain--of der drugging. One goot witness will do: two is petter. But you will swear, mine friend, you will not ruin me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I stand by Rowland, said the captain, grimly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't remember what was said, anyhow; got a blamed bad memory. Get away from that door." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Settle inside, called the captain to the driver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll take another, Rowland." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bark _Peerless_, East India Dock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I understand the game, Rowland, he said, as they started;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's it, answered Rowland, weakly, as he leaned back on the cushion, faint from the excitement of the last few moments." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And as for the right or wrong of the position I am in--why, we must go farther back for it than the question of lookouts. The cause of the wreck was full speed in a fog. All hands on lookout could not have seen that berg. The underwriters knew the speed and took the risk. Let them pay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right--and I'm with you on it. But you must get out of the country. I don't know the law on the matter, but they may compel you to testify. You can't ship 'fore the mast again--that's settled. But you can have a berth mate with me as long as I sail a ship--if you'll take it; and you're to make my cabin your home as long as you like; remember that. Still, I know you want to get across with the kid, and if you stay around until I sail it may be months before you get to New York, with the chance of losing her by getting foul of English law. But just leave it to me. There are powerful interests at stake in regard to this matter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got your pay, Rowland, and signed a receipt for it to that attorney. He paid it out of his own pocket. You could have worked that company for fifty thousand, or more; but I knew you wouldn't touch their money, and so, only struck him for your wages. You're entitled to a month's pay. Here it is--American money--about seventeen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now here's something else, Rowland, he continued, producing an envelope." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In consideration of the fact that you lost all your clothes and later, your arm, through the carelessness of the company's officers, Mr. Thompson offers you this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems that I'm not to escape it, after all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take 'em, old man, take 'em; in fact, I took 'em for you, and you and the kid are booked. And I made Thompson agree to settle your doctor's bill and expenses with that Sheeny. 'Tisn't bribery. I'd heel you myself for the run over, but, hang it, you'll take nothing from me. You've got to get the young un over. You're the only one to do it. The old gentleman was an American, alone here--hadn't even a lawyer, that I could find. The boat sails in the morning and the night train leaves in two hours. Think of that mother, Rowland. Why, man, I'd travel round the world to stand in your shoes when you hand Myra over. I've got a child of my own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I'll take the passage, he said, with a smile." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I accept the bribe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right. You'll be strong and healthy when you land, and when that mother's through thanking you, and you have to think of yourself, remember--I want a mate and will be here a month before sailing. Write to me, care o' Lloyds, if you want the berth, and I'll send you advance money to get back with." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, captain, said Rowland, as he took the other's hand and then glanced at his empty sleeve;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, suit yourself, Rowland; I'll take you mate without any hands at all while you had your brains. It's done me good to meet a man like you; and--say, old man, you won't take it wrong from me, will you? It's none o' my business, but you're too all-fired good a man to drink. You haven't had a nip for two months. Are you going to begin?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never again, said Rowland, rising." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've a future now, as well as a past." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he mused," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're going to see mamma, soon, Myra, he whispered in the pink ear;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she had forgotten the word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This child has been shipwrecked, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have sixteen dollars and a half to spend on it. Give it a bath, dress its hair, and use up the money on a dress, shoes, and stockings, underclothing, and a hat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do your best, said Rowland;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whose kid ye got?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe it is the daughter of Mrs. Colonel Selfridge," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye believe--but ye don't know. Come back into the shtore, me tourist, and we'll see who ye shtole it from." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, officer; I can prove possession." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Myra! she screamed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me my baby--give her to me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You scoundrel! he exclaimed, as he flourished his cane over Rowland's head with his free arm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've caught you. Officer, take that man to the station-house. I will follow and make a charge in the name of my daughter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he shtole the kid, did he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most certainly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C'm an wi' me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rich indeed--the idea--the flimsiest prints." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This man, your Honor, he began, excitedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, interrupted the magistrate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confine your testimony to the present offense." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, your Honor. Failing in this, he stole, or enticed the little one from its bed, and in less than five minutes the ship was wrecked, and he must have escaped with the child in--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were you a witness of this?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was not there, your Honor; but we have it on the word of the first officer, a gentleman--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Step down, sir. That will do. Officer, was this offense committed in New York?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, your Honor; I caught him meself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who did he steal the child from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That leddy over yonder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madam, will you take the stand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And he has mutilated--tortured my baby. There are deep wounds in her little back, and the doctor said, only last night, that they were made by a sharp instrument. And he must have tried to warp and twist the mind of my child, or put her through frightful experiences; for he has taught her to swear--horribly--and last night at bedtime, when I told her the story of Elisha and the bears and the children, she burst out into the most uncontrollable screaming and sobbing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shipwreck was this--where was it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The _Titan_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The _Titan_, repeated the magistrate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then this offense was committed on the high seas under the English flag. I cannot imagine why it is brought into this court. Prisoner, have you anything to say?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, your Honor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Change this charge to vagrancy--eh--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prisoner, he said, sharply," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the man who was rescued from an iceberg, are you not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Discharged! The word came forth in an unjudicial roar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madam, added the magistrate, with a kindling light in his eye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now John Rowland, your future is your own. You have merely suffered in the past from a mistaken estimate of the importance of women and whisky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do not think me indifferent or ungrateful. I have watched from a distance while you made your wonderful fight for your old standards. You have won, and I am glad and I congratulate you. But Myra will not let me rest. She asks for you continually and cries at times. I can bear it no longer. Will you not come and see Myra?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got it, Jack, said the smaller boy, joyously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here it is. I win, but, of course, you're the alternate. Read it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's the use? was the somewhat sulky response." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've lost, sure enough. All I've got to do is to forget it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do I care for that? said Forsythe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose I've got a letter in there, too. Let's see." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Same thing, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I failed by three points in my special study. How is it, Bill? he demanded, fiercely, as his disappointment grew upon him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've beaten not only you, but the whole class from the primary up, in history, ancient, modern, and local, until now. There's something crooked here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crooked, Jack! What are you talking about?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't know, Bill. Never mind. Come on, if you're going home." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I say; there's something crooked in this. I can beat you in history any day in the week, but your dad and old Bland are close friends. I see it now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you want me to report your opinion to my father and Mr. Bland?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you would, would you? And take from me the alternate, too! Well, you're a cur, Bill Denman. Go ahead and report." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I'll not report your opinion, but--you square yourself, Jack Forsythe, and I'll show you the kind of cur I am." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Licked! he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the first time in my life, too! What'll the old gentleman and mother say?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Billie Denman! she cried, shocked and anxious." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What has happened to you? Run over?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Florrie, he answered, painfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been licked. I had a fight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But don't you know it's wrong to fight, Billie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe, answered Denman, trying to get more blood from his face to the already saturated handkerchief." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we all do wrong--sometimes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Billie Denman, she said, shaking a small finger at him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Florence Fleming, you're only a kid yet, though the best one I know; and if I should tell you the name I was called and which brought on the fight, you would not understand. But you'll grow up some day, and then you will understand. Now, remember this fight, and when some woman, or possibly some man, calls you a--a cat, you'll feel like fighting, too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I wouldn't mind, she answered, firm in her position." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Papa called me a kitten to-day, and I didn't get mad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Florrie, he said, wearily," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't try to explain. I'm going away before long, and perhaps I won't come back again. But if I do, there'll be another fight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Going away, Billie! she cried in alarm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where to?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Annapolis. I may stay, or I may come back. I don't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you are going away, and you don't know that you'll come back! Oh, Billie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you got licked, too. Who did it? I hate him. Who licked you, Billie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind, Florrie. He'll tell the news, and you'll soon know who he is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you're going away, Billie! she exclaimed again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When are you going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whenever I am sent for. If I don't see you again, good-by, Florrie girl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I will see you again, she declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, I will. I'll come to your house. And, Billie--I'm sorry I scolded you, really I am." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind that, Florrie; you always scolded me, you know, and I'm used to it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But only when you did wrong, Billie, she answered, gravely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, you will, little girl. It's the privilege and prerogative of your sex." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Sir, and ended with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sincerely yours," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I presume you know that your enemy, Jack Forsythe, took his disappointment so keenly that he never amounted to much at home, and about two years ago enlisted in the navy. This relieves you, as father tells me, from the necessity of thrashing him--as you declared you would. Officers and enlisted men cannot fight, he said, as the officer has the advantage, and can always order the man to jail. I thank you very much for remembering me after all these years--in fact, I shall never forget your kindness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sarcasm and contempt between every line, he muttered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She expected me--the whole town expected me--to come back and lick that fellow. Well --his eyelids became rigidly parallel--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll do it. When I find him, I'll get shore leave for both of us, take him home, and square the account." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know the way, whispered the garroter, and a few gathered around him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll make a bee line for the dock and avoid 'em. Then, if we can't find a boat, we'll swim for it. It's the only way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, whispered another;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who goes--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got a boat around here? hissed Jenkins in his ear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whisper--don't speak." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How many men are aboard the destroyer?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "None now. Crew joins in the morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody on board, you say? Lie quiet. If you raise a row, I'll drop you overboard. Come here, you fellows." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right enough, said Jenkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll run her out. She's oil fuel, as I understand. You can fire up in ten minutes, can't you? Good. Come on. Wait, though." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take the wheel, one of you, he ordered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've just rounded the corner. Keep her sou'east, half south for a mile. I'll be here, then. I want to rig the log over the stern." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good, grunted Jenkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know just where I am. Come down from aloft, he called," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've found that sentry, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any others?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fort Warren, down on the Narrows. That's why I'm going out through the Hypocrite. Keep your eyes peeled for buoys, you ginks, and keep those leads going." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've run these channels for years, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An officer aboard, he whispered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was down looking for grub, and saw him. He's been asleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take the wheel, said Jenkins, calmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep her as she goes, and leave that black buoy to starboard." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you an officer of this boat, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am. What do you want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only to tell you, sir, that she is not now under the control of the Navy Department. My name is Jenkins, and with twelve others I escaped from the prison to-night, and took charge of this boat for a while. We did not know you were on board." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "None o' that, sir, said the giant, sternly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are there any others on board besides yourself?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I know of, answered Denman, with forced calmness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The crew had not joined when I went to sleep. What do you intend to do with me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's for you to decide, sir. If you will renounce your official position, we will put you on parole; if you will not, you will be confined below decks until we are ready to leave this craft. All we want is our liberty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you intend to get it? Every warship in the world will chase this boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is not a craft in the world that can catch her, rejoined Jenkins;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How many are there in this party?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thirteen--all told; and that, too, is beside the point. Answer quickly, sir. I am needed at the wheel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I accept your offer, said Denman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is enough, sir, answered Jenkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You give your word of honor, do you, as an American naval officer, not to interfere with the working of this boat or the movements of her crew until after we have left her?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I give you my word, said the young officer, not without some misgivings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You seem to be in command. What shall I call you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Herbert Jenkins, seaman gunner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Jenkins," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Jenkins, responded Denman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I greet you cordially. My name is William Denman, ensign in the United States Navy, and formally executive officer of this boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "None o' that, Forsythe, said Jenkins, sternly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're all to treat Mr. Denman with respect. Now, you fellows, step forward, and introduce yourselves. I know only a few of you by name." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guess you know me, Mr. Denman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you, Forsythe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wireless operators," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You seem well-equipped and well-chosen men, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're wireless sharps, aren't you? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go down to the apparatus, and see if you can pick up any messages. The whole coast must be aroused." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The air's full o' talk, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Casey's at the receiver, still listening, but I made out only a few words like 'Charleston,' 'Brooklyn,' 'jail,' 'pirates,' 'Pensacola,' and one phrasing 'Send in pursuit.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The open sea for us, said Jenkins, grimly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "However, he said, in extenuation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So the course was changed, and soon they sat down to their breakfast; such a meal as they had not tasted in years--wardroom" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see that fellow? he yelled, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard him before I saw him. He asked: 'What ship is that?'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Port your wheel--hard over," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see that fellow before we did?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why didn't you sing out? If we're sunk, you drown, too, don't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You forget, Captain Jenkins, that I accepted my parole on condition that I should neither interfere with you nor assist you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But your life--don't you value that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not under some conditions. If I cannot emerge from this adventure with credit and honor intact, I prefer death. Do you understand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're right, sir. I understand now. But you know what we mean to do, don't you? Make the African coast and scatter. You can stand for that, can't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not unless I have to. But you will not reach the coast. You will be hunted down and caught before then." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And what part will you play if that comes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No part, active or resistant, unless first released from parole. But if I ask for that release, it will be at a time when I am in greater danger than now, I promise you that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, sir. Ask for it when you like." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Denman, firmly, rising to his feet and facing them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not navigate unless you surrender this craft to me, and work her back to Boston, where you will return to the prison." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we won't do that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait, you fellows, said Jenkins, firmly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My _position_ would be changed, answered Denman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I command this boat, I take her back to Boston, not to the African coast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, sir, said Jenkins, a shade of disappointment on his face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We cannot force you to join us, or help us; so--well, come forward, you fellows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Jenkins! broke in Forsythe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're doing a lot of dictating here, and I've wondered why! Who gave you the right to decide? You admit your incompetency; you can't navigate, can you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I cannot, retorted Jenkins, flushing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neither can I learn, at my age. Neither can you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't? stormed Forsythe, his eyes glaring white as he glanced from Jenkins to Denman and back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'll tell you I can. I tell you I haven't forgotten all I learned at school, and that I can pick up navigation without currying favor from this milk-fed thief. You know well --he advanced and held his fist under Denman's face--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's broken his parole--put him in irons--chuck him overboard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right, sir, said Jenkins, holding Denman at the end of one long arm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have violated your agreement with us, and we must consider you a prisoner under confinement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, panted Denman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Iron me, if you like, but first form a ring and let me thrash that dog. He thrashed me at school when I was the smaller and weaker. I've promised him a licking. Let me give it to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, we will not, answered Jenkins." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Things are too serious for fighting. You must hand me that pistol and any arms you may have, and be confined to the wardroom. And you, Forsythe, he said, looking at the victim," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, sir, he said to Denman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this all you have, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you ask that? answered Denman, hotly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a prisoner, why may I not lie to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, Mr. Denman, I think you wouldn't. However, I won't ask; I'll search this room and the whole boat, confiscating every weapon. You will have the run of your stateroom and the wardroom, but will not be allowed on deck. And you will not be annoyed, except perhaps to lend Forsythe any books he may want. He's the only educated man in the crowd." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better send him down under escort, responded Denman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, that'll be attended to. I've no part in your private affairs, sir; but you gave him one good one, and that ought to be enough for a while. If you tackle him again, you'll have the whole bunch at you. Better let well enough alone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's afire and her boats are burned. There's a woman aboard. I tell you we're not going to let 'em drown. Over with that boat, or I'll stretch some o' you out on deck-- Oh, you will, Forsythe?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead with the machine, Sampson, said Jenkins again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blown up! yelled Jenkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's sinking forward! She's cut in two! Where are they? Where's the woman? That wasn't powder, Riley. What was it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Steam, answered the machinist, coolly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They didn't rake the fires until too late, I suppose, and left the engine under one bell possibly, while they steered 'fore the wind with the preventer tiller." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've got somebody. Can you see? It's the woman! Blown overboard. See any one else? I don't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're coming back. Only the woman--only the woman out o' the whole crowd." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'd better hurry up, responded Riley." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that over to the nor'ard?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing but a tramp, said Jenkins, at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we don't want to be interviewed. Bear a hand, you fellows, he shouted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is the woman dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No--guess not, came the answer, through the small deadlight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fainted away since we picked her up. Burned or scalded, somewhat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've picked up a poor woman, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, said Denman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do what I can for her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, sir. I'll leave this door open, but I must lock the after companion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? she exclaimed, weakly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What has happened? Where is father?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, said Denman, gently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know. Yes, I am in pain. My face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait, and I will get you what I can from the medicine-chest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go in, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take off your wet clothes, and put on his pajamas. Here they are --he produced them from a locker--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am after a sextant, Mr. Denman, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must find them yourself, then, answered Denman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neither under parole nor confinement will I aid you in any way unless you surrender." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, said Jenkins, impatiently, as he stepped past Denman, and approached a bookcase." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When we're through with the boat you can have her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you're all right, Captain Jenkins, said Denman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll breathe easier to-morrow, and in a week, perhaps, you may speak in a whisper; but you are practically deprived from command. So make the best of it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't leave the engines, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shut off your gas, and never mind your engines, commanded Denman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come up on deck quietly, or I'll put holes in you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lie down on deck, the two of you, said Denman, sharply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take off your neckerchiefs, and give them to me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lie still, now, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How are you heading?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "South--due south, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leave the wheel. The engine is stopped. Down on deck with you, and take off your neckerchief." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up with your hands, said Denman, softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up, quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, sir, he answered, sleepily and somewhat weakly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My name's Hawkes, and I haven't yet disobeyed an order from an officer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, warned Denman, sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take off your neckerchief." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wake up the man nearest you. Tie his hands behind his back, and take off his necktie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On deck with you all," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Forsythe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a good idea, said Casey, the wireless man off duty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We needn't give any name--only a jumble of letters that spell nothing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How far can you send with what you've got?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "With those aërials, answered Casey, glancing aloft at the long gridiron of wires," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much good, I'm afraid, said Jenkins." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord knows where we are, but we're more than fifty miles from land." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That as far as you can reason? broke in Forsythe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jenkins, you're handy at a knockdown, but if you can't use what brain you've got, you'd better resign command here. I don't know who elected you, anyhow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you looking for more, Forsythe? asked Jenkins, taking a step toward him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you are, you can have it. If not, get down to your studies, and find out where this craft is, so we can get somewhere." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can give you the latitude, he said, before descending," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fake up a message claiming to be from some ship with a jumbled name, as you say, and be ready to send it if he gets our position." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you think well of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly. Forsythe has brains. The only trouble with him is that he wants to run things too much." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down to the officers' quarters to get a sextant or a quadrant. I found that book on navigation in the pilot-house, but I need the instrument, and a nautical almanac. That is as far as my studies have progressed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You stay out of the officers' quarters, said Jenkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a man there who'll eat you alive if you show yourself. You want a sextant and nautical almanac. Anything else?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll get them, and, remember, you and the rest are to stay away from the after end of the boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eat me alive? We'll see." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, he grumbled," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Short oil? queried Forsythe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you mean that----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean that the oil won't last but a day longer. We've been storming along at forty knots, and eating up oil. What'll we do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God knows, answered Forsythe, reflectively." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Without oil, we stop--in mid-ocean. What then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What then? queried Riley." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, before then we must hold up some craft and get the oil--also grub and water, if I guess right. This bunch is hard on the commissary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Riley, said Forsythe, impressively," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; if you can bring that big chump to terms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right. Talk to your partners. Something must be done--and he can't do it. Wait a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just about one week's whack o' grub and water left. We'll have to go on an allowance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One week's grub left? asked Forsythe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure o' that, Daniels?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surest thing you know. Plenty o' beans and hard-tack; but who wants beans and hard-tack?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you spoken to Jenkins about it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but we meant to. Something's got to be done. Where is he now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Down aft, said Forsythe, reflectively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's keeping him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come aft with me, Daniels, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's find out what's doing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said Forsythe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's heeled! cried Forsythe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did he get the guns?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's the armroom? Hereabouts somewhere. Where is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's removed them all. Can we break in that door?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, hold on, said Daniels." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll watch from the companion, and when he's forward we'll sneak down the other, and heel ourselves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good." } ]