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19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, he must be an impostor! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What kind of a racket do you think he's up to?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mmm-mm; I wouldn't say that, not right away, Bish said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I hope so! And if they do it before the _Cape Canaveral_ gets in, they may fix Leo Belsher, too, and then, in the general excitement, somebody might clobber Mort Hallstock, and that'd be grand slam. After the triple funeral, we could go to work on setting up an honest co-o... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what the trouble is, here? We have no government. No legal government, anyhow; no government under Federation law. We don't even have a Federation Resident-Agent. Before the Fenris Company went broke, it was the government here; when the Space Navy evacuated the colonis... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't want it poisoned for the next century with the sort of thing Mort Hallstock and Steve Ravick started here, either,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Granted. Bish nodded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a civil war's the only possible way to get... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Walt, Joe greeted me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's this Tom's been telling me about Bish Ware shooting a tread-snail that was going to sting Mr. Murell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just about that, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I wouldn't want any drunk like Bish Ware shooting around me with a pistol,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't kid yourself, Joe, Oscar told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw Bish shoot a knife out of a man's hand, one time, in One Eye Sw... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonder if he's going to try to give us that stuff about substitutes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you what we're not going to do, Joe Kivelson said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a bunch of old business, he said,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't applaud, he begged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What I have to tell you isn't anything to applaud about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're tootin' well right it isn't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm very sorry to have... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yeah?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walt, get hold of the Kivelsons and get them out of Hunters' Hall as fast as you can, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just got a tip from one of my ... my parishioners. Ravick's going to stage a riot to giv... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oscar, Dad just called me, I told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tip came in to the Times that Ravick's boys are going to fake a riot and Hallstock's cops are going to raid the meeting. They want Joe and Tom. You know what they'll do if they get hold of them."... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch it, Walt; I'm with it!"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, Joe; let's get moving, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hallstock's Gestapo are on the way. They have orders to get you dead or alive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like blazes! Joe told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the stuff, Joe! Oscar shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, we got them on the run!"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Walter Boyd, returning you now to the regular entertainment program."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're going down in the elevator to Second Level Down, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have Joe and Tom and Oscar Fujisawa and a few of ... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're getting a pickup, I told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vehicle from the _Times_."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine captain I am, running out and leaving them!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they couldn't keep up, that's their tough luck, Oscar Fujisawa told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You brought out all you could. If you'd waited any longer, none of... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do you gentlemen wish to go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the _Javelin_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh-uh, Oscar disagreed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the first place they'll look. That'll be all right for Ramón an... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he have anything to drink after I left?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing but about five cups of coffee."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How'd he manage to come for us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, he was here with me all evening, Dad said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He came from the spaceport with Walt and Tom, and had dinner with us. He called a few people from here, and fou... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You got it all figured out, haven't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The _Times_, Dad was saying, trying not to sound too proud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't Interstellar, Oscar told me, grinning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think Walt has something, Oscar Fujisawa said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As long as Murell's in the hospital at the spaceport, he's safe, but as soon as he gets out of Odin Dock & Shipyard territory, he's going to be a clay pigeon."
},
{
"from": "human... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, do you think Ravick's gotten onto Murell yet? Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We kept that a pretty close secret. Joe and I knew about him, and so did the Mahatma and Nip Spazoni and Corkscrew Finnegan, and that was all."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eighty centisols a pound, he said. Nice and definite; quite a difference from the way he stumbled around over listing his previous publications."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seventy-five's the Kapstaad price, regardless of what you people here have been getting fro... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're one man short; Devis, Abdullah's helper. Hospital."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get hurt in the fight, last night? He was right with us till we got out to the elevators, and then I missed him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. He made it back t... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, those things are big enough for a five-thousand-ton freighter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have to be, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Running submerged isn't the same as running in atmosphere. You ever done any swimming?"
},
{
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is she?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joe told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nip's bringing my saloon fighter aboard, and he wants to meet Mr. Murell."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's your prodigal, Joe, he was saying, peeling out of his parka as he came up the ladder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I owe him a second gunner's share on a monster, fifteen tons of wax."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, that was a good one. You... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, good; you oughtn't to have any trouble finding one, Nip said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There must have been a Nifflheim of a big storm off to the east, beyond the Lava Islands. I got mine north of Cape Terror. There's huge patches of sea-spaghetti drifting... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think so, myself, he added."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That gang has some kind of a knife up their sleeve. Bish is trying to find out just what it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he drinking much?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, mind, Tom was telling me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I notice, I replied. I had also noticed that every time I got the cross hairs on anything and squeezed the trigger, they were on something else when the trigger went plonk."
},
{
"from": "human"... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't put any wax in the hold with that kind of shooting,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you scared him, anyhow,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heave over another one, he called."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That monster got away."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know what you're doing wrong, Tom said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're squeezing the trigger."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not shooting a pistol, he continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't have to hold the gun on the target with the hand you shoot with. The mount control, in your other hand, does that. As soon as the cross hairs touch the target, just grab the trigger ... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean like this?"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would have been a dead monster, Tom said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's see you do it again."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That wasn't bad, Walt, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never manned a 50-mm before, did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, and it's all backward from anything I ever learned about shooting, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Always get him from in front, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aim right here, where his chest makes a kind of V at the base of the neck. A 50-mm will go six or eight feet into him before it explodes, and it'll explode among his heart and lungs and things. If ... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the voice yelled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About ten points off your port bow. We're circling over it now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monster ho! Kivelson yelled into the intercom, in case anybody hadn't heard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run in the guns and seal ports. Secure for submersion. We're going down and chase him up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After gun secure. Hans Cronje's voice, a moment later, said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forward gun secure, and then Ramón Llewe... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get set for torpedo,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to surface. Get set to run the guns out and start shooting as soon as we're out of the water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must have put the torp right under him and lifted him, he said."
},
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Kivelson was saying, out of the intercom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shooting's over. All hands for cutting-up."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walt, can you use a machine gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, all right. Suppose you cover for us from the boat, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Murell can pilot for you. You never worked at cutting-up before, and neither did he. You... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's pretty dangerous work, Murell said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a man using one of those cutters slipped...."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's happened, I told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You met our peg-legged composi... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I make it about fourteen tons, Ramón Llewellyn, who had been checking the wax as it went into the hold, said. He figured mentally for a moment, and added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call it twenty-two thousand sols."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The magazines are aft, you dunderhead, Joe Kivelson told him, shoving himself to his feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay put, everybody; I'll see what it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hull must be ruptured forward; we're making water. It's sp... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's squirting up from below in a dozen places, he said, after he'd sealed the boat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The whole front of the ship must be blown out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now we know what happened to Simon MacGregor's _Claym... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I think, too, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody grab onto something; we're getting the door open."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you really think it was sabotage? Murell was asking me. Blowing up a ship with sixteen men aboard must have seemed sort of extreme to him. Maybe that wasn't according to Terran business ethics."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mightn't it have been a power unit?"
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's that. Joe Kivelson said, when we were back in the underwater calm again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to stay under till the wind's over. Don't anybody move around or breathe any deeper than you have to. We'll have to conserve oxygen."
},
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dumont! You light that pipe and I'll feed it to you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gosh, Joe; I guess I just wasn't thinking..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, give me that pipe. Joe put it in the drawer under the charts."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. Captain Kivelson, _Javelin_, calling. My ship was wrecked by an explosion; all hands now in scout boat, proceeding toward Sancerre Bay, on course south-by-southwest from the wreck. Locator signal is being broadcast from the _Javelin_. Other than t... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday..."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're done for if we stay down here another hour, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any argument on that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We haven't raised anything at all on the radio, Murell went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tha... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anybody wants to see me in the next reincarnation, I can tell you one thing; I won't reincarnate again on Fenris!"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, we're down! I said, as though I were telling anybody anything they didn't know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many are still alive?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As far as I know, all of us, Joe said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, where are we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The radio's smashed, so's the receiver for the locator, and so's the radio navigational equipment. I can state positively, however, that we are on the north coast of Hermann Reuch's Land."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd say we're a good deal west of Sancerre Bay, Cesário Vieira hazarded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't be east of it, the way we got blown west. I think we must be at least five hundred miles east of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't fo... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One thing, we have firewood,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What'll we cut it with; our knives?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we have a sonocutter on the boat, Ramón Llewellyn said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can chop these thing... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this all we have?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's the regular boat radio, but it's smashed up pretty badly. I was thinking we could do something about cannibalizing one radio out of parts from both of them."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's too far from the boat. We can't trudge back and forth to work on the engines. We could cut firewood down there and float it up with the lifters, and I think that's a good idea about using slabs of the soft wood to build a hut. But let's build the hut right here."
},
{... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, take a look at this mess, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See if you can help us with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need a magnifier for this. Wait till I see something."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a little waterfall about half a mile up. It isn't too hard to get up over it, and above, the ground levels off into a big bowl-shaped depression that looks as if it had been a lake bottom, once. The wind isn't so bad up there, and this whole lake bottom or whatever it is... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll take that back, Ramón, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can do a lot more good right here. Have you taken any of the radio navigational equipment apart, yet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I think we can get some stuff out of the ast... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See what all you'll miss, if you take your next reincarnation off Fenris, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This, and the long sunsets and sunrises, and--"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shooting! and,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The machine gun!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something's attacking them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there isn't anything to attack them now, Abe said."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We better go see what it is, Cesário insisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It might be trouble."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on in! We made contact!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Press,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened? I asked, as soon as I was inside. I saw Joe Kivelson getting up from the radio and making place for Abe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say you're all along the coast. Are the other ships west or east of you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "West, as far as I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we must be way east of you. Where are you now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rocket's ready for vertical launching. Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one; rocket off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't see a thing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, I know what they would see! Tom Kivelson burst o... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This guy's a real pyromaniac,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure I am, Cesário took time out to reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know who I was about fifty reincarnations ago? Nero, burning Rome. Theosophists never hesitated to make fun of the... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They see it! They see it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is Walter Boyd, _Times_ representative with the _Javelin_ castaways, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has anybody a portable audiovisual pickup that I can use to get some pictures in to... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I am turning you over to Walter Boyd, the _Times_ correspondent with the _Javelin_ castaways."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this about Bish Ware? You said he was the one who started the search."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About thirty hours after you left port, he picked up some things that made him think the... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We didn't have time to bother with any Al Devises, Oscar said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as Bish figured out what had happened aboard the _Javelin_, we knew you'd need help and need it fast. He's keeping an eye on Al for us till we get back."
},
{
... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, one thing, Oscar told him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bring that machine gun, and what small arms you have. I think things are going to get sort of rough in Port Sandor, in the next twenty or so hours."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not good, Walt. The word's gotten around that there was a bomb planted aboard the _Javelin_, and everybody's taking just one guess who did it. We haven't expressed any opinions one way or another, yet. We've been waiting for confirmation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The condition of the hull looked very much like the effect of a charge of high explosive exploding in the engine room,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We got some views of it, transmitted in by Captain Spazoni, of the _Bulldog_, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're in sight of Port Sandor,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You guys poked along, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always thought the _Pequod_ was fast. We got in three hours ago."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who else is in?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Corkscrew and some of his gang are... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knock off the argument, down there; you people are all going to stay on the ship. I'm going up to the _Times_; as soon as I'm off, float her out into the inner channel and keep her afloat, and don't let anybody aboard you're not sure of."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please make way; this man's been injured. Please don't crowd; we have an injured man here. The crowd began shoving back, and in the rear I could hear them taking it up:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joe Kivelson; he's been hurt. They're carrying Joe Kivelson off. Th... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you get onto it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No trick at all, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just circulated and bought drinks for people. The trouble with Ravick's gang, it's an army of mercenaries. They'll do anything for the pri... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, about thirty hours after the Javelin left port, I was in the Happy Haven, and who should I see, buying drinks for the house, but Al Devis. I let him buy me one, and he told me he'd strained his back hand-lifting a power-unit cartridge. A square dance got started a litt... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Al Devis? I asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lot of people want to talk to him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know they do. I want to get to him first, while he's still in condition to do some talking of his own. But he just dropped o... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I say! Joe Kivelson was shouting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's go clean out both rats' nests. Why, there must be a thousand hunter-ship men at the waterfront, and look how many people in town who want to help. We got enough men to eat Hunters' Hal... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, this isn't my party, Glenn Murell said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Four million sols, Bish said,"
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's a good scheme, Dad said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't mass any more men around Hunters' Hall than necessary. You don't want the police to be afraid to leave when Hallstock calls them in to help him at Municipal Building."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it's down in my room. I'll get it for you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be careful, Bish, Dad said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That gang would kill you sooner than look at you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, me? Bish staggere... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who do you have around Hunters' Hall, and how do I get past them? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want a clipful from somebody on my own side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Second Level Down, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry, Walt, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is strictly for protective coloration--and odoration. I shall be quite sparing with it, I assure you."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we'd better get back to the docks before it starts, Corkscrew was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No hunter crew will follow anybody but their own ships' officers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have to have somebody the uptown people... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut up! Dad roared, the loudest I'd ever heard him speak."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shut up and listen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fourth Ward, Bottom Level, a voice from the fire-alarm speaker said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That diversion idea of mine was all right, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only trouble was that Steve Ravick thought of it first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think he started the fire? Dad began, and then gave a sourer laugh than Osc... |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better leave that, Walt, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't want to get into any shooting."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what all crawls into the Bottom Level, I reminded him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you don't, ask Mr. Murell, here. One sent him to the hospital."
}
] |
19478 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, stay out of any fighting. Your job's to get the news, not play hero in gun fights. I'm no hero; that's why I'm sixty years old. I never knew many heroes that got that old."
}
] |
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