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": 106,
"story": 13,
"summary": "After an epigraph, a new viceroy brings a hard, officious private secretary who keeps drawing matters outside his province into his own hands, while the viceroy watches, amused.",
"predicament": "A leader's officious right hand keeps pulling matters outside his remit into his own grasp, and the leader simply lets him do it."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 13,
"summary": "People complain of too much secretary and too little viceroy; meanwhile a cranky inventor with a cholera fumigant arrives, convinced a medical ring is against him.",
"predicament": "An obsessive outsider with one idea arrives convinced a clique is blocking him, and determined to reach the person at the top."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 13,
"summary": "It is hard to get a hearing with the viceroy, unless one is as grand as a pompous senior official of nearly the same name, who has come to confer.",
"predicament": "Getting a word with the person at the top is nearly impossible, unless you are grand enough to demand an audience."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 13,
"summary": "The secretary drops a letter from the name, and the invitation to a private lunch goes to the inventor, who talks of his theory and tips his powder into the ash-tray.",
"predicament": "A gatekeeper's slip hands an obscure enthusiast the private audience meant for someone grand, and he means to make the most of it."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"story": 13,
"summary": "He lights the powder; choking smoke fills the house, guards and ladies panic, and the viceroy, prostrate with laughter, declares it a magnificent success.",
"predicament": "Granted one private audience with the person at the top, an outsider makes a spectacular scene, and the leader roars with laughter."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 13,
"summary": "The viceroy laughs till he cries; the tale of the secretary's friend with the powder goes round, and at a picnic the viceroy jokes that his secretary hired an assassin, until the secretary takes the hint and resigns with a glowing reference.",
"predicament": "The one at the top retells a comic tale until his overbearing right hand takes the hint, resigns, and leaves with glowing praise."
}
]