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": 320, "story": 27,
"summary": "The alderman's name brings the small dealers in; the promoter asks him to pay the incorporation costs and hands over a postdated check for his own share.",
"predicament": "A promoter asks his powerful new partner to pay the first costs, and settles his own share with a postdated check."},
{"chunk": 321, "story": 27,
"summary": "The alderman takes the check; he balks at letting the promoter hold all the stock as trustee but, finding no better plan, agrees.",
"predicament": "A wary partner hates letting the other hold all the shares in trust, but cannot think of a better arrangement."},
{"chunk": 322, "story": 27,
"summary": "The promoter lulls him with promises of a split and fires up the small dealers at meetings; nearly all sign. He then asks the maker, now vice president, about buying a fine house.",
"predicament": "A promoter wins over a crowd of small traders with talk of collective wealth, then flatters a newly promoted one in private."},
{"chunk": 323, "story": 27,
"summary": "The promoter tells the maker he saved too slowly and must invest; the maker admits he has five thousand, scraped together over thirty years.",
"predicament": "A small trader who scrimped for thirty years is told that saving is for fools and real fortunes come from investing boldly."},
{"chunk": 324, "story": 27,
"summary": "He offers the maker five thousand more in stock, in strict secret to keep the powerful partner out, and promises to push his cigars.",
"predicament": "A trusting small trader is offered extra shares in secret, supposedly to keep a powerful partner from getting too much."},
{"chunk": 325, "story": 27,
"summary": "He makes the same secret offer to every dealer with money, and tells his wife he will leave town with the cash, cutting out the partner who tried to muscle in.",
"predicament": "A promoter secretly sells the shares he promised a forced partner, planning to leave town with the money and the partner empty-handed."},
{"chunk": 326, "story": 27,
"summary": "His wife asks who will lose the money; he assures her it is ordinary promoter's profit. A policeman arrives and arrests him for obtaining money under false pretences.",
"predicament": "A schemer assures his partner his profit is perfectly legitimate just as the law arrives at the door to arrest him."},
{"chunk": 327, "story": 27,
"summary": "The alderman says he swore out the warrant himself over the postdated check, having seen through the double-cross.",
"predicament": "A schemer who planned to cheat his forced partner learns that the partner saw it coming and has had him jailed first."},
{"chunk": 328, "story": 27,
"summary": "In his cell he reflects bitterly that after all his big deals he is caught over a hundred dollars, and feels no remorse, only regret at being careless.",
"predicament": "A schemer who got away with fortunes is caught over a trifling sum, and regrets only the carelessness, not the deeds."},
{"chunk": 329, "story": 27,
"summary": "The maker refuses to have anything to do with a swindler, and his wife has left the hotel; for the first time he is utterly friendless.",
"predicament": "A jailed schemer finds that the marks who fawned on him now refuse him, and he has no real friends left."},
{"chunk": 330, "story": 27,
"summary": "Charged and moved to the county jail, he trades jokes with the alderman, who is reorganising the consolidation himself.",
"predicament": "A jailed schemer must smile while the rival who put him there takes over his scheme and thanks him for it."},
{"chunk": 331, "story": 27,
"summary": "His wife visits, bringing the traction magnate who once bought his sham line.",
"predicament": "A jailed schemer's partner comes to visit him, bringing along one of the very people he once swindled."},
{"chunk": 332, "story": 27,
"summary": "The magnate, whose line prospered, forgives him and offers to buy him out of jail and hire him to win rights of way, with a man to watch him.",
"predicament": "A former victim offers to rescue a jailed schemer and put his talents to honest work, under close watch."},
{"chunk": 333, "story": 27,
"summary": "He laughs that three watchers would be needed and takes his wife's hand; she, understanding at last, knows he will not change.",
"predicament": "A schemer offered an honest living jokes about needing to be watched, and his partner finally accepts he will never change."}
]