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": 118,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The family who keep a mountain inn leave for the valley as winter closes the pass, leaving an old caretaker, a young one on his first winter, and a dog shut in till spring.",
"predicament": "A young man takes on his first long, isolated stint minding a place, cut off from everyone until spring."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 11,
"summary": "On the way down the young caretaker catches up with the mule carrying the family's daughter, who looks at him sadly, and hears none of the mother's long list of winter duties.",
"predicament": "A young man about to be parted for months from the girl he loves hears nothing of the duties he is given."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"story": 11,
"summary": "At the head of the descent everyone says goodbye; the young man whispers to the girl not to forget those up above, and she barely breathes 'No'.",
"predicament": "A young man parting for a long season from the girl he loves asks her, in a whisper, not to forget him."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Walking back, the old caretaker says winter is bearable if you accept it from the start, but the young man's thoughts follow the girl; next day he walks back to the pass to gaze down at her village.",
"predicament": "A young man shut away for a long season keeps going to look toward the place where the girl he loves is."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He longs to go down while he still can; the two settle into cards and dominoes until four days of snow bury the inn and they must dig themselves out.",
"predicament": "A young man longing to leave while he still can watches the last chance close as heavy snow shuts him in."
},
{
"chunk": 123,
"story": 11,
"summary": "They divide the chores and never quarrel; one morning the old man goes hunting, and the young one, alone, sleeps late, then grows frightened of the solitude and goes out to meet him.",
"predicament": "Left alone for a day in an isolated place, a young man finds the solitude suddenly frightening and goes looking for company."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He crosses the snow-levelled valley, glances down at the buried village, searches the glacier for his companion, and calls out at dusk with no answer.",
"predicament": "A young man goes out to meet his companion at the expected hour and finds no sign of him anywhere."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Seized by fear of the cold and silence, he runs back sure the old man took another road, but the inn is cold and empty; he makes soup and keeps going out to look.",
"predicament": "A young man, frightened by the emptiness, hurries home sure his missing companion will be there, and finds the house cold."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"story": 11,
"summary": "By the fire he pictures every accident that could have befallen the old man, knowing twenty guides could search a week without finding him, and resolves to set out at one in the morning.",
"predicament": "A young man whose companion is missing pictures every disaster, knowing he alone cannot search so vast a wilderness."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He packs food, rope and axe, waits trembling for the clock, then sets out with the dog and climbs for five hours to a summit his companion used to hunt from, where he watches the dawn.",
"predicament": "A young man sets out alone in the night to search for a missing companion, taking on a dangerous climb."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He searches all day, calling and listening, walks over thirty miles, and spends the night half frozen in a snow hole with the dog, waking in despair.",
"predicament": "A searcher who has given everything to finding a lost companion is exhausted, freezing, and has still found nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 129,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Afraid he will die too, he struggles back to the inn and sleeps like the dead, until a voice crying his name wakes him; he shouts into the dark and hears nothing.",
"predicament": "A young man who gave up a search to save himself wakes to hear his lost companion's voice calling his name."
},
{
"chunk": 130,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He bolts the door, certain the old man has just died calling to him, whether in farewell or to curse the one who did not search hard enough, and that the ghost will haunt the inn until the body is buried.",
"predicament": "A young man is convinced his dead companion is reproaching him for not searching harder, and is haunted by the guilt."
},
{
"chunk": 131,
"story": 11,
"summary": "By day he sits tortured by the thought of the body in the snow; by night he paces, too afraid to open the door or lie in bed, until the cry comes again and he falls backward in terror.",
"predicament": "A young man alone with his guilt dreads each night, certain the one he failed will come calling again."
},
{
"chunk": 132,
"story": 11,
"summary": "The dog bristles and growls at the door; the young man brandishes a chair at the unseen visitor, then drinks glass after glass of brandy until his courage returns.",
"predicament": "A terrified young man shut in alone turns to drink to quiet his fear of what he believes waits outside."
},
{
"chunk": 133,
"story": 11,
"summary": "For weeks he lives drunk to blot out the voice, until the brandy runs out and the terror returns worse, and he paces like a caged beast, defying the thing through the wall.",
"predicament": "A man drowning guilt and fear in drink runs out of it, and finds the terror waiting for him, worse than before."
},
{
"chunk": 134,
"story": 11,
"summary": "He flings the door open to face the caller, is driven back by the wind and bolts it, not seeing the dog run out; hearing scratching and wailing, he barricades the door and windows with furniture.",
"predicament": "A man half mad with fear shuts out his only companion by mistake and barricades himself against its cries."
},
{
"chunk": 135,
"story": 11,
"summary": "Days of howling back and forth end in silence and an empty-headed sleep; in spring the family return, surprised no one came down, and find a torn animal skeleton by the door.",
"predicament": "A family returning after a long absence find signs that something has gone terribly wrong with those they left behind."
},
{
"chunk": 136,
"story": 11,
"summary": "They batter down the barricaded door and find a ragged, white-haired man they do not recognise until the daughter cries his name; he is mad, the old man is never found, and the girl nearly dies that summer.",
"predicament": "A family break into their shut-up house and find the young man they left in charge changed past recognition by solitude."
}
]