[
 {"chunk": 173, "story": 15, "summary": "In a coach-house at night, a coachman, his small grandson visiting from the village, a doorman and an old pedlar play cards by a lantern, facing the lit windows of a rented lodge.", "predicament": "A few humble people pass an evening together in a yard, watching the lit windows of a household above them."},
 {"chunk": 174, "story": 15, "summary": "The doorman reports that a lodger shot himself in the head that morning and the doctors have given up; the man's parents have arrived wailing, and the doorman must go to the police.", "predicament": "A humble man caught up in a stranger's tragedy worries about being questioned over what little he saw."},
 {"chunk": 175, "story": 15, "summary": "They gossip that he loved another man's wife; the boy remembers the man stroking his head yesterday; the lodger dies, and the pedlar says such a soul cannot be prayed for.", "predicament": "Onlookers gossip idly about a neighbour's sudden death, and quarrel over whether he deserves anyone's prayers at all."},
 {"chunk": 176, "story": 15, "summary": "The pedlar tells how a rich lady bribed officials to give her son a proper church burial after he shot himself, until watchmen said they heard him howling under the church.", "predicament": "A grieving parent pays to have a disgraceful death covered up so the family can mourn with honour."},
 {"chunk": 177, "story": 15, "summary": "She secretly paid to have her son dug up and reburied outside the cemetery, then fed birds for his soul until a black dog appeared and drove her half-mad.", "predicament": "A parent who hid a disgraceful death is haunted by it until she secretly undoes what she paid for."},
 {"chunk": 178, "story": 15, "summary": "The coachman and his grandson look in at the window where the dead man's parents are laying out the body; back in the coach-house the terrified boy runs weeping to his grandfather.", "predicament": "A child who has glimpsed a stranger's family in mourning is too frightened to sleep in a strange place."},
 {"chunk": 179, "story": 15, "summary": "The boy begs to be taken home to his mother; his grandfather threatens then comforts him, admitting he is frightened too, and the doorman reports the mother's grief.", "predicament": "A frightened child far from home begs to be taken back to his mother, and his guardian has no comfort to give."},
 {"chunk": 180, "story": 15, "summary": "The men start another card game; comforted by their voices, the boy sleeps, and by morning the coach-house no longer seems terrible.", "predicament": "A frightened child is steadied by the ordinary company of adults carrying on as usual."}
]