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": 273,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Tipped off by Mr. Robert, Torchy recognises a lanky country visitor who has been waiting since the building opened, and draws out one-word answers from him about his arrival.",
"predicament": "Someone minding the door greets an expected visitor from out of town who answers every friendly question with a single word."
},
{
"chunk": 274,
"story": 21,
"summary": "The silent visitor sits motionless watching the typists until Mr. Robert takes him in; the planned half-hour meeting stretches through lunch into late afternoon, and Mr. Robert comes out frowning to ask about Torchy's diplomacy.",
"predicament": "A meeting the boss's relative expected to finish quickly drags all day, and he comes out looking for help from someone junior."
},
{
"chunk": 275,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Mr. Robert says he wants Torchy's finesse used on the visitor; Torchy says the man is nearly impossible to talk to, and asks where he is from.",
"predicament": "The boss's relative asks someone junior to use his tact on a visitor who will barely speak to anyone."
},
{
"chunk": 276,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Mr. Robert explains he lost a yacht race and summoned the rival boat's designer to build him a better one; the man says he can but will not commit, apparently because something is on his mind, and Mr. Robert wants Torchy to find out what.",
"predicament": "A superior cannot get a crucial supplier to commit, and hands someone junior the job of finding out what is holding him back."
},
{
"chunk": 277,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Sent out as Mr. Robert's substitute host with expense money, Torchy tows the silent visitor around town showing him the sights and gets no reaction; the man asks only for fish chowder.",
"predicament": "Someone junior stands in for the boss's relative to entertain an important visitor, who shows no interest in anything offered."
},
{
"chunk": 278,
"story": 21,
"summary": "At a fancy French restaurant the visitor refuses wine but gamely eats the strange dishes, and over coffee and a cigar he finally asks where a certain actress is performing.",
"predicament": "After an evening of stiff hospitality on the boss's money, the guarded visitor finally lets slip what he really came to town for."
},
{
"chunk": 279,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Torchy teases him about chasing a chorus girl; the visitor says she is an old friend who was a waitress back home under another name, and that he has to find her.",
"predicament": "A reserved visitor confides to someone junior that he is searching for an old sweetheart who left home to seek fame."
},
{
"chunk": 280,
"story": 21,
"summary": "The visitor explains that he courted the waitress for months but was too busy with his newly bought business to propose in time.",
"predicament": "A man admits he lost the girl he loved because he was too busy building his business to propose in time."
},
{
"chunk": 281,
"story": 21,
"summary": "On a night he forgot a date with her, she left with a friend to audition for a city show and was hired; he has had no word from her since, and has now bought a ring to offer her.",
"predicament": "A man whose neglect drove his sweetheart away has come to the city with a ring, hoping it is not too late."
},
{
"chunk": 282,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Torchy finds her name in a theatre programme, and they catch the show, where she stands out glamorously in the chorus; the visitor stares at her the whole time.",
"predicament": "Someone junior helps a visitor track down his lost sweetheart and they watch her shine in a glamorous new life."
},
{
"chunk": 283,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Undaunted, the visitor wants to offer her the ring; an usher friend of Torchy's takes a note backstage, but she tosses it aside unread and is off to a late supper with a wealthy admirer.",
"predicament": "A suitor sends a note to his former sweetheart and learns she brushed it aside for a wealthy admirer's invitation."
},
{
"chunk": 284,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Barred from the fancy supper club for lack of evening clothes, the visitor insists on waiting outside for her, and Torchy stays with him while the night's crowd comes and goes.",
"predicament": "A rejected suitor refuses to give up and waits outside in the cold for her, and someone junior loyally waits with him."
},
{
"chunk": 285,
"story": 21,
"summary": "After midnight she comes out on the arm of the old rich man; the visitor steps up to explain himself, and she recognises him and laughs coldly in his face.",
"predicament": "A faithful suitor finally faces his old sweetheart, now on a rich man's arm, and she laughs in his face."
},
{
"chunk": 286,
"story": 21,
"summary": "She drives off; the visitor promptly decides to give the ring to her friend back home, goes home, and agrees to build the boat, and Torchy reports success to Mr. Robert.",
"predicament": "Freed of a hopeless infatuation, a visitor agrees to the deal, and someone junior brings the boss's relative the result he wanted."
}
]