[
 {
  "chunk": 128,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "A general tells a battery captain he is not permitted to know anything and must simply open fire on any movement in his front; the captain has his lieutenant witness the order, and salutes with pointed formality as the general rides off into the fog.",
  "predicament": "Someone who asked a question is told curtly by a superior that their only job is to obey, and makes sure of a witness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 129,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "After an indecisive day of fighting in rain and mud, the whole army is sullen and does no more than its duty; the general calls it cowardly, his adjutant says it is only cold.",
  "predicament": "A whole group does the bare minimum after a miserable day, and the one in charge takes it for cowardice."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 130,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Even the weapons sound feeble; the futile day ends, and a night of discomfort gives way to a morning of apprehension.",
  "predicament": "After a day of pointless effort, a dispirited group waits through a miserable night for something worse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 131,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "In thick fog the army senses its lines are badly placed; men and officers talk anxiously, commanders look for their neighbours, and troops dig in of their own accord.",
  "predicament": "A large group senses without being told that something is badly wrong with its position, and nobody knows what."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 132,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The captain's battery holds a strong earthwork on what, by his compass, seems to be the extreme left flank of the army, with no troops visible beyond.",
  "predicament": "Someone holding a strong position works out that they are on the exposed edge, with nobody else beyond them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 133,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Alone in the fog, the captain is told by a sergeant that the infantry has been withdrawn, the front is unguarded, and men have heard the enemy's guns moving toward the works.",
  "predicament": "Someone left alone to hold a position hears from their people that support has gone and something is approaching."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 134,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He asks who heard the approach, pales slightly, and orders all guns to open fire with grape; meanwhile the general who gave the order tells the division commander the battery is badly commanded.",
  "predicament": "Someone ordered to fire on any movement hears of one they suspect is friendly, and obeys the order to the letter."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 135,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The division commander reveals another friendly brigade was sent overnight beyond the battery; cannon fire breaks out on the left, the enemy attacks everywhere, and the battery fires steadily into the fog.",
  "predicament": "A superior learns too late that friends were placed where they told a subordinate to fire, just as the firing starts."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 136,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The gunners work idly, firing blind, until a great cheer bursts out of the fog close in front, and they work feverishly.",
  "predicament": "People firing blindly at an unseen target suddenly hear it cheering close in front of them, and redouble their efforts."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 137,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Grey figures swarm up the slope into grape and canister and fall in heaps; in dense smoke a few reach the parapet and are bayoneted back into the ditch.",
  "predicament": "Defenders in a smoke-filled position cut down a crowd storming toward them without ever seeing clearly who they are."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 138,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The lieutenant urgently protests that they must stop firing; the captain coldly repeats the general's words to him, then shoots dead a man who mounts the parapet waving a flag, and the rest flee.",
  "predicament": "Someone who fears their orders are wrong is told by a subordinate that they must stop, and answers with the words used on them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 139,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The division commander rides in, looks over the parapet and furiously tells the captain he has been fighting their own men; the captain says he knew it, and that the reason was withheld in his orders.",
  "predicament": "Someone who knowingly obeyed an order that killed their own side is called to account, and says only that they obeyed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 140,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The captain refers him to the general who gave the order, but that general is dead; the division commander, sympathetic, begs him for anything that might excuse him, and the captain calls on his lieutenant.",
  "predicament": "Someone accused of a terrible act finds that the only person who could confirm their orders is dead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 141,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The resentful lieutenant says only that he warned the captain and was insulted, and denies knowing of any orders; the captain hears his doom and hands over his sword.",
  "predicament": "Someone's last witness, whom they once snubbed, takes their revenge by saying nothing that would clear them."
 }
]