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

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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": 0,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The narrator introduces the one woman the cold reasoner ever respected, a woman of doubtful memory who once got the better of him.",
"predicament": "A proud, cool-headed person has met one opponent who outwitted them, and cannot stop measuring everyone else against her."
},
{
"chunk": 1,
"story": 0,
"summary": "Marriage has drawn the narrator away from his old friend, who has been living alone between drugs and bursts of work on cases the police gave up.",
"predicament": "Someone whose own life has moved on has drifted away from an old companion and only hears of him secondhand."
},
{
"chunk": 2,
"story": 0,
"summary": "Passing his friend's old rooms, the narrator calls in on impulse; the investigator greets him quietly and reads from his looks that he has married and gone back to work.",
"predicament": "Someone drops in on an old friend after a long gap and finds himself read at a glance, unsure of his welcome."
},
{
"chunk": 3,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The investigator explains how he knew the narrator had been out in bad weather and has a careless servant, and that he is back in practice.",
"predicament": "A person is unsettled to find that a companion can read the private details of his life from small signs."
},
{
"chunk": 4,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The narrator admits he sees but does not observe; the investigator hands him an anonymous note that arrived by the last post.",
"predicament": "A person is shown up as seeing without noticing, just as an unsigned message raises a question worth answering."
},
{
"chunk": 5,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The unsigned note announces a masked visitor with a matter of the deepest importance; the investigator refuses to theorise and reads the paper's watermark instead.",
"predicament": "An unsigned message promises a visitor with a grave secret, and an investigator must decide what to trust before meeting him."
},
{
"chunk": 6,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The investigator works out that the writer is a wealthy foreigner; a rich carriage arrives, and he makes the narrator stay to help.",
"predicament": "An investigator has worked out who is coming before the door opens, and wants a trusted witness in the room."
},
{
"chunk": 7,
"story": 0,
"summary": "A huge, richly dressed man in a mask enters and asks to be heard, unsure which of the two men to address.",
"predicament": "A powerful stranger arrives disguised, needing help but unwilling to show who he is to people he cannot yet trust."
},
{
"chunk": 8,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The visitor gives a false title, binds both men to secrecy and admits he acts for someone great; the investigator coolly says he already knew.",
"predicament": "A client hides behind a false name while asking for secrecy, and the investigator lets him know the pretence is already seen through."
},
{
"chunk": 9,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The visitor tears off his mask and admits he is himself the royal client; years ago he became entangled with a famous adventuress.",
"predicament": "A powerful man drops a disguise that fooled no one and must admit a past entanglement to a stranger he needs."
},
{
"chunk": 10,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The client wrote compromising letters and had himself photographed with the woman; five attempts to steal the picture back have failed.",
"predicament": "A powerful man's old indiscretion is preserved in proof he cannot buy or steal back, however hard he tries."
},
{
"chunk": 11,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The woman threatens to send the photograph to his bride's family when the betrothal is announced; he gives the investigator a free hand and money.",
"predicament": "A powerful man's planned marriage will collapse if a former lover makes good her threat to reveal their past."
},
{
"chunk": 12,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The client pays heavily in advance and leaves; next day the narrator waits for the investigator, confident he will not fail.",
"predicament": "An investigator is paid lavishly in advance by a client desperate for quick results, and the watcher assumes success is certain."
},
{
"chunk": 13,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The investigator returns disguised as a drunken stable-hand and collapses laughing at how his morning ended.",
"predicament": "An investigator comes back from watching a house in disguise, with a surprise he can hardly tell for laughing."
},
{
"chunk": 14,
"story": 0,
"summary": "Disguised as an out-of-work groom, he studied the woman's house and gathered gossip from the stablemen.",
"predicament": "An investigator poses as a humble out-of-work stranger to learn a target's habits from the people who serve her."
},
{
"chunk": 15,
"story": 0,
"summary": "He learns she lives quietly with one frequent male visitor, a lawyer, and must decide whether that man holds the proof.",
"predicament": "An investigator watching someone must decide whether a frequent visitor is an ally holding what he wants, or a lover."
},
{
"chunk": 16,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The lawyer rushes out of the house and orders his cab to a church; the woman follows moments later in a hurry.",
"predicament": "Someone watching a house sees the two people he is following suddenly race off, and must decide whether to follow."
},
{
"chunk": 17,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The investigator follows them to the church and is suddenly dragged forward by the bridegroom, who needs a witness at once.",
"predicament": "A person secretly following two others is suddenly pulled into their business and cannot refuse without giving himself away."
},
{
"chunk": 18,
"story": 0,
"summary": "He finds himself the witness at the woman's hasty wedding, then plans to act before the pair can leave, and asks the narrator's help.",
"predicament": "An investigator has unwittingly helped his quarry's plans along and must now act fast before she slips out of reach."
},
{
"chunk": 19,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The investigator asks whether the narrator will break the law and risk arrest; he agrees, and is told to stand at a window and throw something in at a signal.",
"predicament": "A friend is asked to break the law for a cause he is told is good, without being told the whole plan."
},
{
"chunk": 20,
"story": 0,
"summary": "He is given a smoke device and instructions, and the investigator disguises himself as a mild, simple-minded clergyman.",
"predicament": "A helper agrees to a staged false alarm while his friend prepares a disguise meant to win a stranger's sympathy."
},
{
"chunk": 21,
"story": 0,
"summary": "Waiting outside the house, the investigator reasons that the woman's marriage makes the proof a danger to her as well, and wonders where she keeps it.",
"predicament": "Watchers outside a house reason that their quarry's new marriage makes her secret dangerous to her too."
},
{
"chunk": 22,
"story": 0,
"summary": "He reasons the proof must be in her own house and says he will not search but make her show him.",
"predicament": "An investigator decides to trick his quarry into revealing where she has hidden what he has come to take."
},
{
"chunk": 23,
"story": 0,
"summary": "A staged street brawl breaks out as she arrives; the disguised investigator falls, apparently bleeding, while defending her.",
"predicament": "A stranger fakes an injury defending a woman, trading on her decency to be carried into her home."
},
{
"chunk": 24,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The kind woman has the injured man brought in; the narrator feels ashamed as she tends him, but hardens his heart to play his part.",
"predicament": "A helper is ashamed to watch a kind woman tend a man who is deceiving her, and must choose loyalty or conscience."
},
{
"chunk": 25,
"story": 0,
"summary": "At the signal the narrator throws in the smoke device and cries fire; the investigator later explains the whole street crowd was hired.",
"predicament": "A helper carries out his part in a deception and learns afterwards how much of the scene was staged."
},
{
"chunk": 26,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The false alarm made the woman rush to the hiding place; the investigator saw it but did not take the proof, since her servant was watching him.",
"predicament": "An investigator has tricked his quarry into showing her hiding place but holds back because someone is watching him closely."
},
{
"chunk": 27,
"story": 0,
"summary": "A passing youth wishes him good night by name; next morning the client arrives eager, and the investigator tells him the woman has married.",
"predicament": "An investigator is greeted by name by a stranger in the street, a sign that his quarry may know more than he thought."
},
{
"chunk": 28,
"story": 0,
"summary": "At the house they learn she has fled abroad with her husband; the hiding place holds only a portrait of her and a letter.",
"predicament": "An investigator arrives to collect his prize and finds his quarry has seen through him and fled first."
},
{
"chunk": 29,
"story": 0,
"summary": "Her letter says she saw through the disguise, followed him home, and will keep the photograph only to protect herself from the client.",
"predicament": "Someone pursued by a powerful former lover outwits the investigator he hired, keeping her proof only as protection."
},
{
"chunk": 30,
"story": 0,
"summary": "The client is relieved and offers a ring; the investigator asks only for her portrait and pointedly ignores the client's hand.",
"predicament": "An investigator bested by his quarry thinks less of his client than of her, and lets the client see it."
}
]
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{
"chunk": 31,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The narrator finds the investigator with a stout red-haired client and is pulled in to hear the case, with a reminder that real life outdoes invention.",
"predicament": "An investigator welcomes a trusted companion into a client's case just as a strange story is about to be told."
},
{
"chunk": 32,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator asks the client to repeat his unusual story, saying odd small affairs are often more telling than great crimes.",
"predicament": "An investigator cannot yet tell whether a client's odd story is a crime at all, and wants every detail again."
},
{
"chunk": 33,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The narrator can read nothing from the commonplace client; the investigator lists his past labour, his lodge, his travels and his recent writing.",
"predicament": "A plain, slow client is startled when a stranger reads his whole history off his clothes and hands."
},
{
"chunk": 34,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator explains his reasoning, and the client decides it was nothing clever after all; he produces the newspaper notice that began it all.",
"predicament": "Someone who explains how he knows things finds his cleverness dismissed as obvious once the trick is shown."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The notice offers a well-paid post for nominal work to red-haired men; the client explains his small, struggling business and cheap assistant.",
"predicament": "A person whose small business barely keeps him is drawn by a public offer of easy money for almost no work."
},
{
"chunk": 36,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The client praises his assistant, who works for half wages and spends hours in the cellar, and recalls how the assistant first showed him the notice.",
"predicament": "A small employer is grateful for a clever helper who works cheap, and never asks why the helper accepts so little."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The assistant tells the stay-at-home client about a fund paying easy money to men with his colouring, and says he is eligible.",
"predicament": "A stay-at-home person short of money is told by a trusted helper that easy money is his for the asking."
},
{
"chunk": 38,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The assistant explains the eccentric benefactor's fund and hints it is hardly worth the effort, drawing the client further in.",
"predicament": "A trusted helper talks up an easy windfall while pretending indifference, so that his employer will push to claim it."
},
{
"chunk": 39,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The client and assistant go to the office through a vast crowd of applicants; the assistant forces a way through for him.",
"predicament": "A hopeful applicant facing a crowd of rivals would give up, but a helper insists on pushing him through to the front."
},
{
"chunk": 40,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The man at the office rejects everyone else but greets the client warmly and declares him perfectly suited.",
"predicament": "A hopeful applicant is singled out and flattered by the person in charge, above all the other candidates."
},
{
"chunk": 41,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The manager tests the hair by pulling it, fills the post, then feigns doubt because the client is unmarried before letting it pass.",
"predicament": "A person offered a windfall is made to feel it nearly slipped away, so he grasps it more eagerly."
},
{
"chunk": 42,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The client agrees to strict hours copying an encyclopedia, forbidden to leave the room, while the assistant offers to mind the shop.",
"predicament": "A person accepts easy pay on the strange condition that he stay away from his own business for hours every day."
},
{
"chunk": 43,
"story": 1,
"summary": "That night he suspects a hoax, but next day finds everything as promised, and is set to copying and locked out at two.",
"predicament": "Someone who suspects an offer is too good to be true is reassured when it is paid exactly as promised."
},
{
"chunk": 44,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Weeks pass with pay every Saturday until one morning the door is locked with a notice saying the fund is dissolved.",
"predicament": "A person who has grown comfortable on easy money finds it cut off without warning or explanation."
},
{
"chunk": 45,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The client is stung by their laughter; he describes chasing the vanished manager through false names and addresses.",
"predicament": "A person left stranded by a vanished employer finds every name and address he was given was false."
},
{
"chunk": 46,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The client wants to know who played this trick on him; the investigator questions him closely about how his assistant came to him.",
"predicament": "A person who has lost easy money wants to know who fooled him, and does not yet suspect the helper he trusts."
},
{
"chunk": 47,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The assistant's description excites the investigator; after the client leaves he says the case needs prompt action.",
"predicament": "An investigator realises a client's trusted helper is not who he seems, while the client suspects nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 48,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator smokes on the problem in silence, then abruptly proposes an afternoon concert.",
"predicament": "An investigator has a puzzle half solved and needs quiet thought before he can decide what to do."
},
{
"chunk": 49,
"story": 1,
"summary": "He inspects the shop, raps the pavement and asks the assistant for directions, only to look at the knees of his trousers.",
"predicament": "An investigator calls at a suspect's door on a pretext, to look for one telltale sign without alerting him."
},
{
"chunk": 50,
"story": 1,
"summary": "He surveys the busy street behind the shop, noting the buildings that back onto it, then turns to play.",
"predicament": "An investigator quietly maps the ground around a suspect's hideout before revealing his suspicions to anyone."
},
{
"chunk": 51,
"story": 1,
"summary": "After the concert he tells the narrator a serious crime is planned for that night and asks for his help.",
"predicament": "An investigator knows a serious crime will happen tonight and has only hours to stop it."
},
{
"chunk": 52,
"story": 1,
"summary": "He asks the narrator to come armed; the narrator goes home puzzled, sensing the assistant is a dangerous man.",
"predicament": "A companion is asked to come armed on a night venture he does not understand, trusting a friend who will not explain."
},
{
"chunk": 53,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The narrator meets a police officer and a gloomy banker who doubts the expedition, while the officer patronises the investigator.",
"predicament": "An outsider asked to trust an investigator's plan doubts it, while the official backing it patronises him."
},
{
"chunk": 54,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator promises the banker a large stake and the officer a notorious, well-born criminal he has never managed to catch.",
"predicament": "An official who has chased a clever, well-born criminal for years is offered a chance to finally take him."
},
{
"chunk": 55,
"story": 1,
"summary": "They reach the bank's vault; the banker thumps the hollow floor and is sharply told to sit down and not interfere.",
"predicament": "A person whose property is at stake nearly spoils a trap by carelessness and is ordered to keep still."
},
{
"chunk": 56,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator checks the floor and explains they are in a bank vault holding a large reserve of borrowed gold.",
"predicament": "A guardian of valuables learns that thieves are about to strike and that his own careless talk drew them."
},
{
"chunk": 57,
"story": 1,
"summary": "They put out the light and hide behind crates, armed, waiting for thieves who may shoot.",
"predicament": "Watchers hide in the dark to ambush dangerous thieves, knowing the thieves may fight their way out."
},
{
"chunk": 58,
"story": 1,
"summary": "After a long, tense wait a light appears and a hand gropes up through a crack in the floor.",
"predicament": "Someone lying in ambush must keep still through a long dark wait until the first sign of an intruder appears."
},
{
"chunk": 59,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The thieves climb up; the investigator seizes the leader and knocks his pistol away, while the accomplice flees into waiting arms.",
"predicament": "A clever thief walks straight into an ambush and must decide whether to fight, flee or give in gracefully."
},
{
"chunk": 60,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The captured criminal insists on being addressed with respect; the banker thanks the investigator, who asks only for his expenses.",
"predicament": "A captured criminal clings to his dignity and birth even as he is led away in handcuffs."
},
{
"chunk": 61,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The investigator explains that the fund was a lure to get the shopkeeper out of the way every day.",
"predicament": "An investigator explains how a helper who worked for too little was the tell that exposed a whole scheme."
},
{
"chunk": 62,
"story": 1,
"summary": "He explains how the assistant's cellar habits, worn knees and the bank next door revealed the tunnel.",
"predicament": "An investigator traces a scheme back through a helper's odd habits and the neighbour who had something worth taking."
},
{
"chunk": 63,
"story": 1,
"summary": "He explains how he knew the attempt would come that night, then complains that ordinary life bores him.",
"predicament": "An investigator who has just solved a case feels ordinary life closing in again and dreads the idleness."
}
]
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"chunk": 64,
"story": 2,
"summary": "By the fire the investigator argues that real life is stranger than fiction; the narrator doubts it, finding reported crimes dull.",
"predicament": "Two companions argue whether ordinary life hides anything stranger than invention, each sure the other is wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 65,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The narrator picks a newspaper case to prove his point; the investigator, who worked on it, shows its details were stranger than any invention.",
"predicament": "A person picks an example to prove a friend wrong, and the friend turns it against him with facts he lacked."
},
{
"chunk": 66,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator shows gifts from grateful royal clients and says his current cases are important but dull, then spots a client in the street.",
"predicament": "An investigator has many weighty cases and none worth his interest, and hopes the stranger outside will bring one."
},
{
"chunk": 67,
"story": 2,
"summary": "A large, nervous woman hesitates on the pavement before hurrying to the door; the investigator reads it as a perplexed love affair.",
"predicament": "A hesitant stranger works up her nerve to bring a private trouble to people she does not know."
},
{
"chunk": 68,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator startles the woman by reading her work from her hands; she says she would give her income to know what became of her missing fiancé, and that her stepfather would do nothing.",
"predicament": "A young woman whose fiancé has vanished defies a relative who wants her to drop it, and seeks help alone."
},
{
"chunk": 69,
"story": 2,
"summary": "She explains her young stepfather, her mother's remarriage and the sale of her father's business; she has a separate income of her own.",
"predicament": "A young woman with a small fortune of her own explains a household where a new relative controls the money."
},
{
"chunk": 70,
"story": 2,
"summary": "She lets her family draw her income while she lives at home, and supports herself by her own work.",
"predicament": "A young woman hands her own income to the family she lives with, never asking who really benefits."
},
{
"chunk": 71,
"story": 2,
"summary": "Against her stepfather's wishes she went to a ball while he was abroad and met a shy suitor, who then could not call once her stepfather returned.",
"predicament": "A young woman defies a controlling relative to go out, meets a suitor, and must see him in secret."
},
{
"chunk": 72,
"story": 2,
"summary": "She was engaged at once and wrote daily, but never learned where he worked or lived; he insisted her letters be handwritten and his were typed.",
"predicament": "A person is engaged to someone whose address and work she never learned, and sees nothing strange in it."
},
{
"chunk": 73,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The suitor was shy, whispered, wore tinted glasses and preferred to walk after dark.",
"predicament": "A trusting woman describes a suitor who avoided daylight and hid his face and voice, and sees only shyness."
},
{
"chunk": 74,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The suitor pressed a quick wedding while her stepfather was away, made her swear fidelity, and her mother backed him; her letter to her stepfather missed him.",
"predicament": "A young woman is rushed into a secret wedding, sworn to faithfulness, and urged by her own mother to tell no one."
},
{
"chunk": 75,
"story": 2,
"summary": "On the wedding morning the groom vanished from a closed cab; she believes some danger took him and that he will claim her.",
"predicament": "A bride is left waiting at the altar when her groom vanishes, and chooses to believe he was taken rather than fled."
},
{
"chunk": 76,
"story": 2,
"summary": "Her mother forbade her to speak of it; her stepfather agreed something happened; she sobs, and the investigator advises her to forget the man.",
"predicament": "A jilted woman is told by everyone, even her helper, to forget a man she has sworn to wait for."
},
{
"chunk": 77,
"story": 2,
"summary": "She refuses to forget and swears to stay true; the investigator says the case is trite but the woman herself was interesting.",
"predicament": "A deceived woman refuses advice to forget and vows to keep faith with someone who will never return."
},
{
"chunk": 78,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator asks the narrator what he noticed about her dress; the narrator lists colours and details.",
"predicament": "A companion is tested on what he noticed and must describe a stranger without knowing what matters."
},
{
"chunk": 79,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator praises the method but notes what was missed: her work marks, short sight, and odd, half-buttoned boots that show haste.",
"predicament": "A person learns he looked at everything and noticed nothing, and is shown how to read haste in a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 80,
"story": 2,
"summary": "He notes her inky glove, then reads the missing man's description and points out that even the signatures on his letters were typed.",
"predicament": "An investigator notices that a missing man never once let his own handwriting be seen."
},
{
"chunk": 81,
"story": 2,
"summary": "He writes to the stepfather's employer and to the stepfather himself, asking the latter to call.",
"predicament": "An investigator quietly sends for a relative he suspects, without saying why, and waits for the reply."
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator says the matter is solved but no law can touch the culprit; the stepfather arrives.",
"predicament": "An investigator has found the culprit and knows the law cannot punish him for what he did."
},
{
"chunk": 83,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The smooth stepfather says the girl should not have come and doubts the missing man can be found; he starts when told he will be.",
"predicament": "A smooth relative who hoped a matter would be dropped is startled to hear the missing man will be found."
},
{
"chunk": 84,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator shows the stepfather's typed letters match the suitor's machine; the man tries to leave and the door is locked on him.",
"predicament": "A deceiver shown proof that his own letters match the ones he forged tries to leave and finds the door locked."
},
{
"chunk": 85,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The stepfather collapses, stammers that it is not a crime, and the investigator agrees but calls it heartless.",
"predicament": "A deceiver caught out pleads that nothing he did was against the law, and is told it was cruel all the same."
},
{
"chunk": 86,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator explains the stepfather courted the girl in disguise to keep her unmarried and keep her income; he pleads it began as a joke.",
"predicament": "A person who posed as a suitor to keep a relative's money in the family is exposed and pleads it was a joke."
},
{
"chunk": 87,
"story": 2,
"summary": "He staged a vanishing to bind her to a phantom for years; recovering, the stepfather sneers.",
"predicament": "A deceiver hears his whole scheme laid out, then gathers his nerve and sneers because nothing can be proved against him."
},
{
"chunk": 88,
"story": 2,
"summary": "He warns the investigator he is the one breaking the law by locking the door; the investigator reaches for a whip and the man flees.",
"predicament": "An investigator faces a cruel deceiver the law cannot touch and is tempted to punish him with his own hands."
},
{
"chunk": 89,
"story": 2,
"summary": "The investigator explains how the suitor and stepfather never appeared together, and how he checked the description and the typewriter.",
"predicament": "An investigator explains how he proved two men were one, by noticing they were never seen together."
}
]
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[
{
"chunk": 90,
"story": 3,
"summary": "The narrator's wife urges him to accept the investigator's telegram asking him to come on a country murder case; he joins him at the train.",
"predicament": "A married man is invited on a dangerous errand by an old friend, and his spouse urges him to go."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 3,
"summary": "On the train the investigator explains that a son is accused of his father's murder, a simple case that is hard for that reason.",
"predicament": "An investigator takes up a case where the evidence already points firmly at one person, and resolves to assume nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 3,
"summary": "He describes two former colonists who settled near each other, one rich, one his tenant, and the tenant's walk to an appointment he never returned from.",
"predicament": "Two old associates from far away live side by side, one oddly dependent on the other, until one is found dead."
},
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"chunk": 93,
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"predicament": "An accused man's case looks hopeless to everyone except one loyal friend who has brought in outside help."
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"summary": "The investigator explains that the call was one used by colonists and that the dying word named a place in the colony.",
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"summary": "He explains how he read the killer's height, lameness, left hand and habits from tracks and ash; the narrator sees who it must be.",
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"summary": "The dying rich neighbour arrives and admits he knows why; he would have spoken if the son were convicted, but fears for his daughter.",
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"summary": "He overheard the blackmailer urging his son to marry the daughter, and struck him down in desperation; the investigator refuses to judge him.",
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"summary": "The investigator decides to keep the confession secret unless the son is condemned; the son is acquitted and the old man dies months later.",
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"summary": "On a stormy night a bell rings; the investigator, who has no friends but the narrator, guesses only a serious case would bring anyone out.",
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"summary": "A letter arrived holding five dried seeds and three initials; the uncle turned grey with terror, said his sins had caught him up, and fetched a box from the attic.",
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"summary": "The young man leaves armed into the storm; the investigator says the danger is greater than any they have faced.",
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"summary": "The investigator speaks of reasoning from one fact to a whole chain of events, and of needing all useful knowledge.",
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"summary": "He reasons the uncle fled abroad in fear, and asks the narrator to note the letters' postmarks.",
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"summary": "He deduces the senders are on a sailing ship, that the blow falls when they arrive, and that this time there will be no delay.",
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"summary": "He concludes the killers are a group determined to recover the papers, and names a secret society.",
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"chunk": 149,
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"summary": "He reasons the uncle's papers could implicate powerful men, so the society will stop at nothing; next morning he starts inquiries.",
"predicament": "An investigator concludes that stolen records could ruin powerful people, who will kill anyone holding them."
},
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"chunk": 150,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The newspaper reports the young man drowned near the river that night, ruled an accident.",
"predicament": "An investigator learns that the client he sent home with advice was killed that same night."
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"chunk": 151,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The investigator's pride is hurt; he vows to catch the gang himself without the police, and returns late, starved but successful.",
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"chunk": 152,
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"summary": "He sends the killers' own token to the ship's master, and explains how he traced the ship through shipping registers.",
"predicament": "An investigator turns his enemies' own threat back on them, having traced them through dull public records."
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"chunk": 153,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The ship had sailed; he has cabled for the men's arrest at their home port, but the ship is lost at sea with all hands.",
"predicament": "An investigator has the killers in his grasp, and justice is taken out of his hands by chance."
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"summary": "The narrator recalls an addicted friend; late one night the addict's wife bursts in, veiled and sobbing, to the narrator's wife.",
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"summary": "The narrator offers to go alone and bring the man home; he descends into the den by the docks.",
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"summary": "Among the stupefied smokers he finds his friend, who has lost track of the days and weeps.",
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"summary": "The addict agrees to go home and asks the narrator to settle his debt.",
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"summary": "An old man by the brazier whispers to him; it is the investigator in disguise, who asks him to get rid of his friend.",
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"summary": "The investigator explains the den's owner has sworn revenge on him, and that a missing man may have been murdered there.",
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"summary": "The man went to town promising his son a toy; by chance his wife was called to an office near the den the same day.",
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"summary": "The wife saw her husband at the den's upper window, agitated and half-dressed, before he was pulled or leapt back.",
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"summary": "The narrator doubts a cripple could overpower a strong man; the investigator says he is powerful apart from his limp.",
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"summary": "The beggar was arrested with blood on his sleeve which he blamed on a cut, denied all, and called the wife mad; the missing man's coat turned up in the mud.",
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"summary": "The coat's pockets were stuffed with coins; the police theorise the beggar weighted it to sink with the body.",
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"chunk": 173,
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"summary": "No questions are answered; they arrive at the missing man's country home, where his wife is waiting.",
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"story": 5,
"summary": "She asks for his honest opinion, and he says her husband is dead; she then produces a letter from him received that day.",
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"summary": "The investigator examines the envelope and the note, written in her husband's hurried hand and enclosing his ring.",
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"chunk": 177,
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"summary": "The note asks her to wait in patience; he warns it may be forged or old; she insists she would sense if he were dead.",
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"summary": "He questions her closely about what she saw at the window and whether her husband ever took drugs.",
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"chunk": 179,
"story": 5,
"summary": "The investigator sits up all night smoking and thinking on a heap of cushions.",
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"chunk": 180,
"story": 5,
"summary": "At dawn he calls himself a fool, says he has the key in his bag, and drives to town.",
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"summary": "At the police station he asks after the beggar, whom the officer calls filthy and refusing to wash.",
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"chunk": 182,
"story": 5,
"summary": "They look into the cell at the sleeping, scarred beggar; the investigator produces a sponge.",
"predicament": "An investigator comes to unmask a sleeping prisoner, bringing the humble tool that will do it."
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"chunk": 183,
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"summary": "He washes the prisoner's face and reveals the missing man; the man claims that since no crime occurred he is illegally held.",
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"chunk": 184,
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"summary": "He confesses that as a journalist he posed as a beggar for a story, then used it to pay a debt.",
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"summary": "Seen at the window by his wife, he disguised himself, threw out his weighted coat, and was arrested for his own murder.",
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"chunk": 188,
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"summary": "The investigator says no crime is involved, only one of the odd incidents a crowded city throws up; the hat belongs to a finder.",
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"summary": "A man carrying a goose was set upon by roughs, broke a window with his stick, and fled when a uniformed passer-by ran up, leaving hat and bird.",
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"summary": "The goose's tag and hat bear a common name, so the owner cannot be traced; the investigator challenges the narrator to read the hat.",
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"summary": "The goose held no stone; the flock was sold on and he could not trace it; he sobs that he is a thief with nothing; the investigator tells him to get out.",
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"summary": "He threw a smith into a stream; the daughter paid to hush it up; he keeps wild animals and wanderers on his land, and the sisters lived in fear.",
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"predicament": "A person who struck at a hidden danger hears it find its master instead."
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"chunk": 249,
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"summary": "The stepfather sits dead, bitten by the snake he trained; the investigator returns it to the safe.",
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"summary": "They take the young woman to her aunt; the inquiry blames a dangerous pet.",
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"summary": "He explains the rest, and admits he is indirectly responsible for the stepfather's death, without regret.",
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"summary": "Each guesses a direction; the investigator says the house is in the middle, and names them counterfeiters the police have hunted.",
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},
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"story": 9,
"summary": "The bride was cheerful until after the ceremony, when she dropped her bouquet into a pew and grew agitated.",
"predicament": "A groom dismisses as trivial the one small moment when his bride's manner suddenly changed."
},
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"story": 9,
"summary": "She talked privately to her maid about a prior claim, left the breakfast, and was seen walking in the park with the arrested woman.",
"predicament": "A bride slips away from her own wedding breakfast after a whispered talk with a confidant from her old life."
},
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"chunk": 299,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The client admits a long, close attachment to the arrested woman, who wrote threatening letters; he doubts she would hurt anyone.",
"predicament": "A man admits a former companion threatened to make a scene at his wedding, and that he took steps to stop her."
},
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"story": 9,
"summary": "He suggests the social strain unbalanced his wife; the investigator says he has solved the case, and the client is sceptical.",
"predicament": "A proud man can only explain his bride's flight by supposing she lost her mind rather than rejected him."
},
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"story": 9,
"summary": "A police officer arrives having dragged a lake for the bride's body; the investigator laughs at him.",
"predicament": "An official sure of a tragedy searches for a body, while the investigator is sure there is none to find."
},
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"summary": "The officer produces the wedding dress and ring found in the water, and says they implicate the arrested woman.",
"predicament": "An official holds evidence he is sure proves a suspect guilty, and scorns a rival's theory as impractical."
},
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"chunk": 303,
"story": 9,
"summary": "A note in the dress, signed with initials, seems to prove a lure; the investigator is interested in the hotel bill on the back.",
"predicament": "An official triumphantly shows proof against his suspect, and misses the clue written on its back."
},
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"chunk": 304,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The officer storms off; the investigator tells him the bride never existed as the client's wife, and goes out; a lavish supper for five is delivered.",
"predicament": "An investigator tells a sceptical rival the truth in a riddle, and is taken for a madman."
},
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"story": 9,
"summary": "The client arrives, humiliated and angry; the investigator asks him to make allowance for a motherless girl.",
"predicament": "A proud man publicly deserted refuses to make any allowance for the person who deserted him."
},
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"chunk": 306,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The investigator brings in the bride and her companion; she apologises for her treatment of the client.",
"predicament": "A deserted groom is brought face to face with the bride who left him, and she asks his pardon."
},
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"chunk": 307,
"story": 9,
"summary": "She explains she was secretly married years ago to a poor prospector her rich father rejected, and pledged to wait for him.",
"predicament": "A person who secretly married someone her family forbade must explain it to the one she has since wed."
},
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"chunk": 308,
"story": 9,
"summary": "She heard her first husband had been killed, grieved for a year, then accepted the arranged match.",
"predicament": "A person who believed her first love dead has moved on, and never imagined he might return."
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"chunk": 309,
"story": 9,
"summary": "At the altar she saw her first husband alive in a pew; he slipped her a note, and she knew her duty was to him.",
"predicament": "A bride sees her first spouse, long thought dead, alive in the crowd at her second wedding."
},
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"chunk": 310,
"story": 9,
"summary": "She slipped away to join him, too ashamed to face the grand guests; he had escaped captivity and followed her.",
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},
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"chunk": 311,
"story": 9,
"summary": "Ashamed, she wanted to vanish; the investigator persuaded them to be open; the client coldly shakes her hand.",
"predicament": "A deserted spouse is given a full apology, and accepts it only with cold, wounded formality."
},
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"chunk": 312,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The client refuses to stay for supper; the investigator says the case shows how simple the strangest-seeming affairs can be.",
"predicament": "A proud man publicly humiliated refuses to join in any celebration of the outcome, and leaves."
},
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"chunk": 313,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The investigator explains he reasoned the bride saw someone from her past who had a prior claim.",
"predicament": "An investigator reasons that a bride who changed her mind in minutes must have seen someone from her past."
},
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"chunk": 314,
"story": 9,
"summary": "He traced the man through the expensive hotel bill and persuaded the couple to face the client.",
"predicament": "An investigator finds a runaway couple and persuades them to face the person they wronged."
},
{
"chunk": 315,
"story": 9,
"summary": "The investigator asks the narrator to judge the deserted client mercifully, having lost wife and fortune at once.",
"predicament": "An investigator asks a friend to judge a humiliated man kindly, since he lost everything in an instant."
}
]
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"chunk": 316,
"story": 10,
"summary": "From the window the narrator sees a dignified man running and grimacing in the snow, checking house numbers; the investigator guesses he is coming to them.",
"predicament": "A respectable person is driven so far by a crisis that he runs through the street like a madman."
},
{
"chunk": 317,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The man bursts in, beats his head against the wall in despair, and is calmed by the investigator.",
"predicament": "A person overwhelmed by sudden disaster can barely speak, and fears he will be taken for mad."
},
{
"chunk": 318,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He is a leading banker; public disgrace and private grief have struck together, and people of the highest rank may suffer.",
"predicament": "A respected person facing public disgrace and private grief at once must explain himself to a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 319,
"story": 10,
"summary": "A client of the very highest rank asked for a large, urgent loan, preferring business to asking favours of friends.",
"predicament": "A person of great standing asks a lender for a large secret loan rather than owe favours to friends."
},
{
"chunk": 320,
"story": 10,
"summary": "As security he left a priceless national treasure, promising to reclaim it in four days.",
"predicament": "A lender is asked to hold a priceless, irreplaceable treasure as security, and cannot politely refuse."
},
{
"chunk": 321,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The client stressed discretion and that any damage would cause a great public scandal; the banker regretted taking it.",
"predicament": "A person entrusted with something irreplaceable realises too late how much he will lose if anything happens to it."
},
{
"chunk": 322,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Fearing burglary, he carried it home and locked it in his bureau; he describes his trusted servants and a newer maid with admirers.",
"predicament": "A worried custodian takes a treasure home for safety, into a household he trusts completely."
},
{
"chunk": 323,
"story": 10,
"summary": "His only son, spoiled after his mother's death, has fallen into gambling debts through a charming older friend.",
"predicament": "A parent who indulged a child now watches him sink into debt under the influence of a worldly friend."
},
{
"chunk": 324,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The friend is fascinating but untrustworthy; his adopted niece is his loving right hand, though she twice refused the son.",
"predicament": "A parent is charmed by a son's dangerous friend, and trusts completely a young woman he raised as his own."
},
{
"chunk": 325,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He told his son and niece about the treasure; the son warned the lock was weak, then begged for money to pay a gambling debt and was refused.",
"predicament": "A young man desperate to pay a debt of honour is refused by his parent on the night a treasure is in the house."
},
{
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"story": 10,
"summary": "He checked the treasure; his niece, closing a window, reported that a maid had slipped out to meet someone.",
"predicament": "A trusted young woman, caught at an open window at night, points out someone else's secret meeting instead."
},
{
"chunk": 327,
"story": 10,
"summary": "At night he found his son holding the damaged treasure, and accused him of theft; the son denied anything was missing.",
"predicament": "A parent catches his son with a damaged treasure in his hands and calls him a thief before hearing a word."
},
{
"chunk": 328,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The son refuses to say more; the niece faints; the police come and the son asks to leave the house for five minutes.",
"predicament": "A young man wrongly accused by his own parent refuses to explain himself, out of pride and to protect someone."
},
{
"chunk": 329,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The banker begs his son to reveal where the missing stones are, promising forgiveness.",
"predicament": "A parent begs a son he thinks guilty to confess and make amends, promising all will be forgiven."
},
{
"chunk": 330,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The son sneers at forgiveness and is arrested; nothing is found; the banker has lost honour, gems and son in one night.",
"predicament": "A young man spurns forgiveness for a crime he did not commit and is taken away, saying nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 331,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The investigator doubts the son's guilt, noting his silence cuts both ways and the police theory makes no sense.",
"predicament": "An investigator notices an accused man's silence could mean innocence as easily as guilt."
},
{
"chunk": 332,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He lays out how implausible the father's theory is and proposes going to the house.",
"predicament": "An investigator points out that the theory everyone believes asks the accused to have done something absurd."
},
{
"chunk": 333,
"story": 10,
"summary": "They travel to the banker's house; the narrator still thinks the son guilty but trusts the investigator.",
"predicament": "A companion is sure the accused is guilty but trusts his friend's doubts enough to keep an open mind."
},
{
"chunk": 334,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The investigator walks round the house; the pale, grieving niece asks the banker to free the son.",
"predicament": "A young woman grief-stricken over an accused cousin begs her guardian to release him."
},
{
"chunk": 335,
"story": 10,
"summary": "She insists the son is innocent and asks that the matter be dropped; the investigator agrees he is innocent.",
"predicament": "A person pleads for a matter to be dropped entirely, which would also bury her own part in it."
},
{
"chunk": 336,
"story": 10,
"summary": "She confirms the maid's meeting with a man; the investigator surprises her by knowing he has a wooden leg.",
"predicament": "A person offering a convenient alternative suspect is startled when the investigator knows more than she said."
},
{
"chunk": 337,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The investigator examines a window sill and the bureau, and asks the banker to break off a corner of the treasure.",
"predicament": "An investigator tests the official theory by showing how the crime could not have happened quietly."
},
{
"chunk": 338,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He shows breaking it would make a loud noise; he searches outside alone and says only that his opinion is unchanged.",
"predicament": "An investigator has seen enough to be sure of a young man's innocence but will not yet say who is guilty."
},
{
"chunk": 339,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He gets a free hand to recover the gems at any cost, and goes out disguised as a loafer.",
"predicament": "An investigator is given a free hand and unlimited money to recover a treasure quietly."
},
{
"chunk": 340,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He returns in good spirits with an old boot, then goes out again.",
"predicament": "An investigator in disguise has found the thread he was looking for and hurries to follow it."
},
{
"chunk": 341,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Next morning the banker, aged by grief, reports his niece has deserted him.",
"predicament": "A person who has lost his reputation and his son now learns he has lost the one he trusted most as well."
},
{
"chunk": 342,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Her note says she brought trouble on him and has gone; the investigator produces the missing stones for a fee.",
"predicament": "A guardian is left a note by a ward who has fled, and fears the worst."
},
{
"chunk": 343,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The banker is saved, but is told he owes his son an apology; the niece has fled with the son's dangerous friend.",
"predicament": "A parent who wrongly accused his own child learns the real culprit was the person he trusted most."
},
{
"chunk": 344,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The investigator reveals the friend was a ruined, heartless gambler who seduced the niece into handing out the treasure.",
"predicament": "A trusting guardian learns his beloved ward was seduced into betraying him by a charming, heartless man."
},
{
"chunk": 345,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The son saw his cousin carry the treasure out and hand it through a window to someone.",
"predicament": "A young man secretly watches the person he loves commit a theft against his own family."
},
{
"chunk": 346,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He chased the thief, struggled and recovered most of it; he kept silent to protect the woman he loved, even under arrest.",
"predicament": "A young man accused of a theft he tried to stop keeps silent rather than expose the person he loves."
},
{
"chunk": 347,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The investigator explains he read the maid's meeting and the lane's story in the snow.",
"predicament": "An investigator reads a whole night's secret comings and goings from the tracks left behind."
},
{
"chunk": 348,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The tracks showed a booted man waiting and a barefoot man chasing him, a struggle, and blood.",
"predicament": "An investigator reconstructs from footprints how an accused man chased the real thief and fought him."
},
{
"chunk": 349,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He reasoned only the niece could have brought the treasure, since the son would only shield her.",
"predicament": "An investigator reasons that an accused man would only keep silent to protect someone he loves."
},
{
"chunk": 350,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He identified her lover as the dangerous friend, confirmed it through the friend's servant and cast-off shoes.",
"predicament": "An investigator confirms a suspect's guilt through the suspect's own household and a pair of old shoes, without alerting him."
},
{
"chunk": 351,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He confronted the thief at gunpoint, promised no prosecution, and bought the stones back from a receiver.",
"predicament": "An investigator bargains with a thief, trading the promise of no prosecution for the return of what was stolen."
},
{
"chunk": 352,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The banker thanks him and goes to apologise to his son; the investigator predicts the niece will be punished enough by her lover.",
"predicament": "A deceived guardian rushes to apologise to the child he wronged, while the betrayer is left to her fate."
}
]
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"chunk": 353,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The investigator complains that the narrator's accounts dwell on colour rather than reasoning; the narrator bristles at his egotism.",
"predicament": "A person is told by a proud companion that his account of their shared work misses the only thing that matters."
},
{
"chunk": 354,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The investigator insists his art is impersonal and that the narrator has turned lectures into tales; he is in a bad temper after a fruitless search.",
"predicament": "A proud, bored companion lectures a friend on his failings because nothing worthwhile has come his way."
},
{
"chunk": 355,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He laments that great cases are over and his work has sunk to trifles, and shows a letter from a young woman as proof.",
"predicament": "A person who has lost interest in his work complains it has sunk to trifles, just as a new request arrives."
},
{
"chunk": 356,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The young woman asks whether she should accept a post; she has no family to advise her.",
"predicament": "A young person alone in the world, with no one to advise her, asks strangers whether to accept a strange offer."
},
{
"chunk": 357,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Out of work and running out of money, she was spotted at an agency by a stout, genial man who declared her perfect.",
"predicament": "A young person running out of money is singled out with delight by a stranger with a job to offer."
},
{
"chunk": 358,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He offered far more than her usual pay, and an advance, insisting a lady of her bearing deserved it.",
"predicament": "A person in need is offered far more than her work is worth, and an advance, by a flattering stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 359,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He said the duties were light, caring for a cruel little child, and she must humour his wife by wearing chosen dresses and sitting where told.",
"predicament": "An employee is told that generous pay comes with odd conditions she must accept without asking why."
},
{
"chunk": 360,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He demanded she cut her hair short; she refused and lost the post, to the agent's annoyance.",
"predicament": "A person refuses one strange demand attached to a generous offer, and loses it along with her agent's goodwill."
},
{
"chunk": 361,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Short of money and in debt, she regretted refusing; then a letter came from the man renewing the offer.",
"predicament": "A person who turned down easy money on principle begins to regret it as the bills mount."
},
{
"chunk": 362,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He raised the pay further, explaining the dress and the hair as his wife's fancies; she has decided to accept but asks for advice.",
"predicament": "A person is offered even more money to accept conditions that make no sense, and decides to take it."
},
{
"chunk": 363,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The investigator says no sister of his should take it; the pay is suspiciously high; he promises to come if she is in danger.",
"predicament": "An adviser warns that pay too good to be true hides something, but promises help if the job turns dangerous."
},
{
"chunk": 364,
"story": 11,
"summary": "She leaves cheerfully; the narrator and investigator wonder for a fortnight whether the man is a crank or a villain.",
"predicament": "Helpers wait uneasily for news of someone who has gone into a situation they could not explain."
},
{
"chunk": 365,
"story": 11,
"summary": "An urgent telegram asks them to come; they travel by train through spring countryside.",
"predicament": "Someone who went into danger alone sends an urgent call for help, and her helpers set off at once."
},
{
"chunk": 366,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The narrator admires the scenery; the investigator says isolated houses fill him with horror.",
"predicament": "Someone admires a peaceful, isolated place, and is told isolation lets cruelty go unseen and unpunished."
},
{
"chunk": 367,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He explains that in lonely places cruelty goes unnoticed; they meet the young woman at an inn.",
"predicament": "An adviser fears for someone living far from neighbours, where no one would hear if something went wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 368,
"story": 11,
"summary": "She says she has not been mistreated but cannot understand her employers; she describes the damp, isolated house.",
"predicament": "An employee in a lonely house has suffered no harm but cannot understand what her employers really want."
},
{
"chunk": 369,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The wife is not mad but silent and young; the man's grown daughter supposedly left because she disliked her stepmother.",
"predicament": "An employee learns that the grown child of the household left under circumstances that do not quite add up."
},
{
"chunk": 370,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The wife is devoted but secretly sad; the child is spoiled and delights in cruelty to small creatures.",
"predicament": "A newcomer in a household notices a sad, silent spouse and a cruel child, and senses a hidden sorrow."
},
{
"chunk": 371,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The two servants are unpleasant, the man often drunk; she is asked to put on a blue dress.",
"predicament": "A newcomer in an isolated house is surrounded by sullen, watchful helpers and asked to do something strange."
},
{
"chunk": 372,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Wearing a dress that has been worn before, she is seated with her back to the window while the man tells funny stories.",
"predicament": "An employee is made to perform a strange routine for her employers, and does not know who is watching."
},
{
"chunk": 373,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The performance is repeated; she reads aloud, carefully positioned, then is told to stop and change.",
"predicament": "An employee repeats a strange performance for her employers and grows curious what it is for."
},
{
"chunk": 374,
"story": 11,
"summary": "With a hidden mirror she sees a man on the road watching; the wife sees her and has her wave him away.",
"predicament": "A person who secretly finds out she is being used to deceive someone is made to send the watcher away."
},
{
"chunk": 375,
"story": 11,
"summary": "She was shown a starved guard dog set loose each night and warned never to go out after dark.",
"predicament": "A newcomer is warned that a savage beast is loosed every night and that going outside after dark would be fatal."
},
{
"chunk": 376,
"story": 11,
"summary": "At night she saw the huge dog pacing the lawn.",
"predicament": "A person in a lonely house sees for herself the guard that keeps everyone in and everyone out."
},
{
"chunk": 377,
"story": 11,
"summary": "In a locked drawer she found a coil of hair exactly like her own cut hair.",
"predicament": "A newcomer finds a trace of someone who was here before her, someone who looked exactly like her."
},
{
"chunk": 378,
"story": 11,
"summary": "She saw the man emerge angrily from a locked wing and asked about its shuttered window.",
"predicament": "A person asks an innocent question about a locked part of the house, and sees her employer's mask slip."
},
{
"chunk": 379,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He claimed it was his darkroom with no jest in his eyes; later, finding the key left by the drunk servant, she slipped in.",
"predicament": "A person who senses she is not meant to know something takes her chance to find out when a door is left open."
},
{
"chunk": 380,
"story": 11,
"summary": "She found a barred, padlocked door and a shadow moving behind it; she ran in terror straight into her employer.",
"predicament": "A person exploring a forbidden place sees signs that someone is imprisoned there, and runs straight into her employer."
},
{
"chunk": 381,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He soothed her too sweetly, then threatened to throw her to the dog if she ever went in again.",
"predicament": "A person caught snooping is soothed by her employer, then threatened with a terrible death if she ever does it again."
},
{
"chunk": 382,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Terrified, she telegraphed the investigator, and came to town while her employers go out that evening.",
"predicament": "A person frightened of everyone in the house she lives in secretly sends for help and returns to wait."
},
{
"chunk": 383,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The investigator asks if she can lock the female servant in the cellar that evening; she agrees.",
"predicament": "A frightened young woman is asked to take one more bold risk so that her helpers can get inside."
},
{
"chunk": 384,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He reasons she was hired to impersonate the daughter, who is imprisoned, so her faithful suitor will think she no longer wants him.",
"predicament": "A person realises she was hired to impersonate a captive, so that the captive's friends would give up on her."
},
{
"chunk": 385,
"story": 11,
"summary": "They arrive; she has locked the servant in the cellar; they break the barred door.",
"predicament": "Rescuers force their way to a prisoner's door, fearing they have come too late."
},
{
"chunk": 386,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The room is empty, the prisoner taken through the skylight; the employer returns, calls them thieves and runs for the dog.",
"predicament": "Rescuers find the prisoner gone and are caught by her jailer, who goes to set a savage beast on them."
},
{
"chunk": 387,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The starving dog attacks its master; the narrator shoots it; the female servant arrives, ready to tell what she knows.",
"predicament": "A cruel master is attacked by the very beast he kept to terrorise others."
},
{
"chunk": 388,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The servant explains the daughter's father wanted control of her money and imprisoned her when a suitor appeared.",
"predicament": "A household insider reveals that a parent imprisoned his own child to keep control of her money when she wished to marry."
},
{
"chunk": 389,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The suitor bribed the servants to help the daughter escape; the investigator leaves, their standing there doubtful.",
"predicament": "A faithful suitor quietly buys the household's help to free the person he loves from her own father."
},
{
"chunk": 390,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The master survives broken; the daughter married her suitor; the young woman went on to success.",
"predicament": "A cruel parent is left broken, the imprisoned child goes free and marries, and the hired stand-in moves on."
}
]