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": 8,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "After dinner a hunting man begins a story about his lonely country property, kept by a severe retired policeman who lived there with his fourteen-year-old nephew.",
+  "predicament": "A landowner recalls the strict old servant he trusted to guard his property, and the servant's unpromising young nephew."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 9,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "He describes the sly, ugly nephew and the old woman who came to cook, and his yearly ride out to the lodge on a gloomy October day.",
+  "predicament": "A landowner arrives for his yearly stay at a remote property, where an old servant and a disliked boy wait."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 10,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "The same faithful greetings as every year, though the old cook has grown bent and frail; the keeper is plainly troubled but refuses to say why before dinner.",
+  "predicament": "A loyal old servant is plainly troubled by something and cannot bring himself to tell his employer about it."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 11,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "The keeper confesses that after months of hunting a poacher he followed his own nephew and caught him poaching on his master's land.",
+  "predicament": "A loyal servant must confess to his employer that his own young relative has been stealing from him."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 12,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "The keeper says he beat the boy and could not turn out the last of his blood; the master approves, and the keeper thrashes the nephew before him as an example.",
+  "predicament": "A servant torn between his employer and his only young relative punishes the boy in front of the employer to prove his loyalty."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 13,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "The boy mutters an apology and vanishes; at midnight the master wakes to find the straw-packed house deliberately set on fire, escapes through the window and fires his gun to wake the keeper.",
+  "predicament": "A boy shamed in front of the household takes his revenge, and a guest wakes to find the house deliberately set alight."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 14,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "The keeper jumps clear; they realise the nephew set the fire and that the old cook has burned to death, and then the nephew bolts out of the stable.",
+  "predicament": "A man realises the young relative he punished has burned the house in revenge, killing an innocent old woman."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 15,
+  "story": 1,
+  "summary": "In blind rage the keeper snatches up the gun and shoots the fleeing boy dead; he is acquitted at trial and leaves the country for good.",
+  "predicament": "A man who killed his own young relative in a moment's rage must live with it after the law lets him go."
+ }
+]