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": 186,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator tells how a young man, a month before sailing out to his first appointment, married a slightly older girl secretly before the registrar.",
+  "predicament": "A young man rushes into a secret marriage just before leaving for his first post abroad, sure that everything will work out."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 187,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "The marriage is to stay secret for a year until she can come out; he sails, and she waits in a cheap room in London.",
+  "predicament": "Newly and secretly married, a young man leaves his wife behind, planning to send for her once his fine salary allows."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 188,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "The salary that looked large at home goes nowhere; he sends more than half of it to his wife and must still save for her passage while learning strange work.",
+  "predicament": "A young man's salary, splendid from afar, barely stretches to cover what he must secretly send home to his wife."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 189,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "He cannot afford ponies or shared lodgings, lives in one bare room by the office, sleeps on the roof, and people stop asking him out because he seems a miser.",
+  "predicament": "Secretly supporting a family, a junior lives so meanly that his colleagues shun him as a miser, and he cannot explain why."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 190,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "Haunted by fear of dying and leaving his wife unprovided, he works like a horse, but his employers pay by age, not merit, and give him only a boy's rises.",
+  "predicament": "A junior works like two men for more money, but those above him pay by age, not merit, and refuse him a real rise."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 191,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "His wife's letters grow querulous; he hears that marriage would cost a junior his post; then his baby son dies, and he must show no sign of grief.",
+  "predicament": "Warned that marriage would cost him his post, a junior hides his wife and child, and cannot show grief when his child dies."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 192,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "Seniors praise his thrift and tell him to keep girls out of his heart; then his wife writes that she has gone off with another man.",
+  "predicament": "Praised by seniors for his thrift while secretly ruined, a young man learns that his distant wife has left him for another."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 193,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "Broken, he resigns; after three days the head of the firm offers him, for his proven ability, a far better post at six hundred and fifty rupees.",
+  "predicament": "Just as a broken young man resigns in despair, those above him finally offer the promotion that would have saved everything."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 194,
+  "story": 23,
+  "summary": "The sum would have saved his wife and son; he laughs uncontrollably, says he is an old man now and will retire, and is never seen again.",
+  "predicament": "Offered too late the reward that would have saved his marriage and child, a young man laughs bitterly, refuses, and vanishes."
+ }
+]