[
 {
  "chunk": 192,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A mining camp is united in condemning a man charged that morning with horse stealing; the rope and the coffin are being prepared before his trial is held.",
  "predicament": "Someone accused before the whole community finds the verdict settled and the punishment prepared before any trial."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 193,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The accused had been run out of a neighbouring camp and came here just before its whole population followed; living by cards, he is suspected of robbing the sluice boxes at night.",
  "predicament": "Someone driven out of one place finds everyone who drove them out has followed them to the next."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 194,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The camp's leading citizen loudly insists the man is the thief and threatens anyone who disagrees; the saloon-keeper, to keep the citizen's custom, bars the suspect from his gaming table.",
  "predicament": "Someone suspected by a powerful and loud accuser is shut out by everyone who depends on the accuser's goodwill."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 195,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The camp decides he must hang; the thefts stop, but he drifts into highway robbery and horse theft, and is caught by his accuser leading away a neighbour's mare at night.",
  "predicament": "Someone the whole community has already condemned keeps up their bad habits, and is finally caught in the act by their accuser."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 196,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He is tried and hanged, leaving his whole estate to his captor on condition of a decent burial; a codicil is found in his pocket after death.",
  "predicament": "Someone who helped bring a person to the gallows is left everything by them, with a hidden condition attached."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 197,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The codicil gives the estate to anyone who proves in court within five years that he robbed the sluice boxes, otherwise to the executor; the executor laughs and accepts the trust.",
  "predicament": "Someone is left a fortune on condition that they spend years proving the innocence of a person they called a thief."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 198,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The estate proves enormous; claimants flood in with evidence, and the executor raises a grand monument praising the dead man's honesty and victimhood.",
  "predicament": "Someone who inherits a fortune must now defend the good name of the person they helped hang, against a flood of claimants."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 199,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "For five years he fights the claims with lawyers, bribes and false witnesses, corrupting the whole territory, and wins; that night a flood topples the monument and exposes the coffin.",
  "predicament": "Someone wins a long, corrupt fight to keep what was left to them, and the victory leaves everything around them rotten."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 200,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The executor, aged and broken by the struggle, now believes absolutely in the dead man's innocence; he has spent the last of the estate on the last witness, and is drawn to the flooded cemetery.",
  "predicament": "Someone who argued a lie for years has come to believe it completely, and it has cost them everything they gained."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 201,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Sitting on the fallen monument, he weeps with remorse, believing he caused an innocent man's death by false accusation, since the mare's owner later swore, for a fee, that the theft was arranged.",
  "predicament": "Someone who helped hang a person weeps over what they now believe was a false accusation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 202,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He sees the dead man's ghost panning the dust of the other flooded coffins into its own; in the morning the executor is found dead in the cemetery.",
  "predicament": "Someone full of remorse for a person they wronged sees that person's ghost appear before them, still at their old tricks."
 }
]