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": 164,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "After a quiet week the top boss suddenly throws the office into a panic, grilling every department head in turn; Torchy, unimpressed after his newspaper days, takes his time answering the boss's shouts.",
+  "predicament": "When the boss throws the whole place into a panic, someone junior refuses to be rattled and strolls in unhurried."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 165,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The boss asks if Torchy knows where his son is, admits the company will lose a lot of money unless the son is found by four-thirty, and grudgingly lets Torchy think about it.",
+  "predicament": "The boss, desperate to find his absent heir before a deadline, turns in frustration to someone junior for ideas."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 166,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Torchy phones the son's valet, learns he left in formal afternoon dress, and concludes it is a social call; the boss guesses it is the young violinist he has been neglecting business for, and Torchy finds a cryptic appointment on the son's desk pad.",
+  "predicament": "Someone junior reasons from small clues that the boss's heir has skipped work to court someone."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 167,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "In the waste basket Torchy finds an invitation to a musical afternoon at a grand house far uptown; he gets expense money and the message about contracts that must be filed that afternoon, and rushes off by train and taxi.",
+  "predicament": "Someone junior digs through a superior's rubbish for a lead, and races off with a message that cannot wait."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 168,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The house turns out to be a girls' finishing school; bluffing past the maid, Torchy steps into a hall full of two hundred girls in white who all turn to stare and giggle at him.",
+  "predicament": "Someone sent to fetch a superior blunders into a room where he is wildly out of place and everyone stares."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 169,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Torchy retreats, creeps round the veranda to the son, who is gazing at the violinist, and whispers the contract warning; the son says he cannot possibly leave in the middle of her performance.",
+  "predicament": "Someone junior reaches the boss's heir with an urgent message, and the heir refuses to leave the person he is courting."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 170,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The son says where the contracts are; Torchy offers to phone the office to deal with it, and is told to wait in the garden until the concert ends.",
+  "predicament": "Someone junior quietly takes a superior's forgotten duty on himself so the superior can stay where he wants to be."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 171,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Torchy lounges happily in the garden until the concert ends and the girls pour out, trapping him in a corner.",
+  "predicament": "Someone left waiting in a pleasant spot is suddenly surrounded by a crowd from a world he does not belong to."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 172,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "The girls parade past staring and giggling at his red hair; he refuses food offered by maids and wishes the son would come, until he sees the heiress he once danced with.",
+  "predicament": "Someone out of place endures a crowd's mocking stares, then spots the one person there who once treated him as an equal."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 173,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "She hesitates, then comes over and greets him warmly with both hands; he admits he feels outclassed there and worries the others will talk.",
+  "predicament": "A well-born sweetheart greets someone from the bottom warmly in public, and he worries what her own crowd will say."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 174,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "She stares down the watching girls, serves him tea and sandwiches, and tells him she is an orphan living with an aunt who is taking her abroad for two years after graduation.",
+  "predicament": "Someone finds a warm connection with a well-born sweetheart and learns in the same moment she is going far away."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 175,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "He asks for her photograph and gives his address; the son finds them together and congratulates Torchy, then belatedly worries about the contracts.",
+  "predicament": "The boss's heir catches someone junior with a well-born sweetheart and congratulates him rather than scolding."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 176,
+  "story": 13,
+  "summary": "Torchy says he had the secretary send the contracts quietly so the son need only act innocent; her photograph arrives, the pious sister disapproves, and the widow identifies the girl as a family friend's heiress and buys a silver frame.",
+  "predicament": "Someone junior quietly covers the heir's lapse, then learns the sweetheart who remembered him is a wealthy heiress."
+ }
+]