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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+# Keefe stories 16-22: notes for the grouping pass
+
+233 records in `s16.json` to `s22.json` (chunks 679-911), one per scene, in chunk order. Stories:
+16 *Sammy Boy*, 17 *Simple Simon*, 18 *The Busher Reenlists*, 19 *The Battle of Texas*,
+20 *Along Came Ruth*, 21 *The Courtship of T. Dorgan*, 22 *The Busher Pulls a Mays*.
+Stories 16-17 are the last trench letters. From 18 on, Keefe is home and back at baseball.
+
+Summaries give what really happens, not what Keefe claims. Where they differ, the summary says so.
+Examples: the invented "Marie" letters (683-711), and his "same salary" at $2,400, which is really a cut (775).
+
+## Recurring situations (plain words, example chunks)
+
+1. **Someone above manages you by mockery, then steps into your private life.** The person in charge teases, fines,
+   exposes a flirtation, brings the wife along, or threatens to tell her. It is the spine of stories 18-22.
+   769-770, 782, 792, 800-801, 805-806, 815, 818, 837-838, 884, 888, 897, 900.
+2. **Holding out for more pay with no leverage.** He names a figure, lowers it, is offered less, storms out and signs anyway.
+   Or he is made to earn the raise by winning one test. 751, 755, 761, 764-775, 810, 829-830, 839-840.
+3. **Threatening to quit, or courting a rival employer who never bites.** 744-750, 773, 802, 816, 836, 878-879, 889-893, 900, 902-911.
+   It ends with him handed off cheaply to the worst club (909-911).
+4. **Coming back from an absence expecting your reputation to open doors.** 745-750, 753-755, 758-760, 738-739, 747.
+5. **Colleagues' prank on a gullible member.** Keefe is the butt in 683-711 (the fake pen-pal). Simon is the butt in 712-724 and 729.
+   Keefe claims he was never fooled (717). The prank turns deadly (726-736).
+6. **Married man tempted by an admirer. Wife or boss finds out.** 682-707, 737, 740, 742-743, 783-807, 845-858.
+   He always insists she pursued him and he was about to tell her he was married.
+7. **Jealous of, or dismissive about, a wife who earns more and makes her own decisions.** 751-752, 756-757, 810, 820, 824-829,
+   832-838, 842, 863-864, 899, 901.
+8. **Drinking against orders, caught by someone above, blamed on "the stomach".** 813-818, 877, 879, 882, 884-889, 897, 903-906.
+9. **A brash newcomer who retells his exploits, mocked by veterans.** Keefe does the same himself without noticing.
+   778, 781, 784-787, 796-797, 803, 811, 823-824.
+10. **Blaming colleagues or luck for your own failure.** 795, 817, 819, 835, 864, 867, 874, 880, 901.
+11. **Boasting about a rival, then backing down when confronted.** 749, 753, 849, 865-867, 821-822.
+12. **Hanging back from a risky errand, then guilt when colleagues are lost, then volunteering to rescue one.**
+    695-696, 699-704, 708-711, 724, 728-736.
+13. **Boredom in a waiting role. Wishing for trouble to break the monotony.** 680-681, 685, 693-694, 715, 722.
+14. **Benched or passed over, demanding a regular turn.** 809, 880-881, 896, 902.
+15. **Go-between for a shy friend who misreads the reply as love for himself. The friend wins.** 841, 844-846, 853-858, 862, 868, 876.
+16. **Sure-thing schemes and big purchases on money not yet in hand.** Car option, fixed-fight tip, betting on credit. 852, 860-864, 868-875.
+17. **Homecoming to a changed family.** News of a new baby, a naming fight, the wife's independence. 724-727, 741-743, 744-746.
+
+## Standing (rough, for staging)
+
+- 16-17: low. He is a private, pranked and ignored. He ends wounded and sent home as a minor public hero.
+- 18: out of work. He is rebuffed everywhere and comes back on reduced terms.
+- 19-21: rising. He is a regular starter who wins the opener and earns his raise. His home and money standing wobble.
+- 22: falling. He is benched for drinking, walks out, and is traded away to the worst club.