[
 {
  "chunk": 203,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The son of a village's leading citizen, breaking a path through fresh snow for his little sister, strikes his foot against something hidden beneath it.",
  "predicament": "A child playing in fresh snow stumbles on something hidden beneath it that the grown-ups would rather not explain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 204,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "A great, ugly home for poor old men stands on the hill, endowed by a merchant who gave away half a million dollars, then left for abroad; he has never returned and is now only a name carved over the door.",
  "predicament": "Someone who gave away a fortune for the good of others has long since vanished, remembered only as a name."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 205,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The home's superintendent resents the ungrateful old inmates and dreams of running it for prosperous paying guests; the old men live out their lives and are replaced.",
  "predicament": "Someone put in charge of a charity resents the very people it was built to help, and wishes they were someone else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 206,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "A ragged old man trudges up the street toward the home on a winter evening, plainly an applicant, since poverty is the qualification.",
  "predicament": "Someone old, poor and ragged makes their way through the cold to ask a charity to take them in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 207,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Avoiding the lamp at the main door, he rings at a side door; the superintendent, jovial and dressed to go out and buy Christmas presents for his children, does not invite him in.",
  "predicament": "Someone in need comes humbly to the side door on a festive night, and the person inside is on their way out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 208,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The superintendent jokes that the trustees have decided his application disagrees with them; the old man cries out in despair.",
  "predicament": "Someone who asked for help in their last extremity is turned away with a joke on a night meant for kindness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 209,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Walking him out, the superintendent pompously explains that under the peculiar circumstances his presence would embarrass the institution; the old man's tracks are already covered by snow.",
  "predicament": "Someone refused help is lectured at length on why helping them would embarrass the very institution meant to help."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 210,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The old man wanders off into a vacant lot with nowhere to go; on Christmas morning the chairman's son stumbles on his frozen body. He was the home's founder.",
  "predicament": "Someone who built a refuge for others is turned away from it in their own need, and dies in the cold."
 }
]