story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3

Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes,
keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy,
wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written
groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters
gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{
"chunk": 105,
"story": 9,
"summary": "A man of Southern sympathies asks the Governor for a commission in the Union army, saying he acts on what he thinks is right, not on what he feels; the Governor, preferring a man with his heart in it, is inclined to refuse.",
"predicament": "Someone asks to serve a cause their heart is not in, and the one who decides doubts they can be trusted."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"story": 9,
"summary": "He confesses he wants the commission in order to be killed, because his wife has been unfaithful; he does not know the other man's name. The Governor, after a cold insult, grants him a captain's commission.",
"predicament": "Someone betrayed by the person they married seeks out danger in the hope of dying, without knowing who wronged them."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Alone, the Governor calls it a bad business, opens a book at a sentence about men foolish enough to believe an unfaithful wife's lies, and throws the book into the fire.",
"predicament": "Someone who has just helped a betrayed husband to his death is privately stung by a reminder of their own part in it."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Months later, during a sluggish campaign, the Governor tours the army with his showy civilian staff, and the soldiers in the trenches curse them as ornaments.",
"predicament": "A comfortable visitor parades through a place of hardship and danger, and the people who suffer there despise them for it."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 9,
"summary": "A general warns the Governor that only a line of skirmishers lies ahead; the Governor insists on meeting the captain he commissioned and goes forward alone on foot to a company waiting at the front.",
"predicament": "Someone insists on seeking out the person they secretly wronged, walking toward danger they do not understand."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The captain, aged and scarred almost beyond recognition, salutes the Governor formally but will not shake his hand; the Governor begins to say whose hand it is.",
"predicament": "Someone offers a hand to a person they owe, and receives only a correct and chilly salute in return."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Firing breaks out from the front; the captain calmly calls his company into line as bullets fly and wounded men stream back.",
"predicament": "A sudden attack interrupts a tense meeting, and a small group must form up at once under fire."
},
{
"chunk": 112,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The captain's calm sing-song commands steady his raw soldiers into acting like veterans; the Governor, torn between pride and terror, runs when the skirmishers fall back.",
"predicament": "A leader's calm voice holds frightened people steady under fire, while an important visitor loses their nerve and runs."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Fleeing through the jungle, the Governor sprains his ankle leaping a brook, and sits helpless on the ground.",
"predicament": "Someone important who ran from danger is left stranded and helpless, unable to go on, as the fighting comes their way."
},
{
"chunk": 114,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The wounded stream past, deaf to his pleas for help; retreating men fire and walk on, and he is sickened that war is ugly and brutal, nothing like the parades held in his honour.",
"predicament": "Someone who knew only the glamour of a struggle sees its ugly reality close up, and nobody stops to help them."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The captain's remnant retreats past him; as the enemy converges on the Governor, the captain sees him and orders his few men forward to save the Governor of their State.",
"predicament": "Someone retreating to save their people sees a helpless person about to be overrun, and orders everyone back to rescue them."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The captain, arm broken, kills attackers with sword and revolver in a savage hand-to-hand fight over the prostrate Governor, until only a handful of his men remain.",
"predicament": "Someone fights savagely to protect a helpless person, not knowing they are defending the one who wronged them."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Reinforcements arrive; the enemy tramples the last defenders and flees. The Governor wakes unhurt but for his ankle, while a general praises the beautiful fight over rows of dead and wounded.",
"predicament": "Someone saved at a terrible price by others wakes almost unhurt, while their superiors call the slaughter glorious."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The Governor finds a letter from the captain's wife confessing her sin and naming him, and quietly pockets it; he jokes with the surgeons, accepts a review in his honour, and does not touch the captain's covered body beside him.",
"predicament": "Someone learns that the person who died saving them knew of their betrayal, and quietly hides the proof."
}
]