[
 {
  "chunk": 31,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The narrator finds the investigator with a stout red-haired client and is pulled in to hear the case, with a reminder that real life outdoes invention.",
  "predicament": "An investigator welcomes a trusted companion into a client's case just as a strange story is about to be told."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 32,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator asks the client to repeat his unusual story, saying odd small affairs are often more telling than great crimes.",
  "predicament": "An investigator cannot yet tell whether a client's odd story is a crime at all, and wants every detail again."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 33,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The narrator can read nothing from the commonplace client; the investigator lists his past labour, his lodge, his travels and his recent writing.",
  "predicament": "A plain, slow client is startled when a stranger reads his whole history off his clothes and hands."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 34,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator explains his reasoning, and the client decides it was nothing clever after all; he produces the newspaper notice that began it all.",
  "predicament": "Someone who explains how he knows things finds his cleverness dismissed as obvious once the trick is shown."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 35,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The notice offers a well-paid post for nominal work to red-haired men; the client explains his small, struggling business and cheap assistant.",
  "predicament": "A person whose small business barely keeps him is drawn by a public offer of easy money for almost no work."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 36,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The client praises his assistant, who works for half wages and spends hours in the cellar, and recalls how the assistant first showed him the notice.",
  "predicament": "A small employer is grateful for a clever helper who works cheap, and never asks why the helper accepts so little."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 37,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The assistant tells the stay-at-home client about a fund paying easy money to men with his colouring, and says he is eligible.",
  "predicament": "A stay-at-home person short of money is told by a trusted helper that easy money is his for the asking."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 38,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The assistant explains the eccentric benefactor's fund and hints it is hardly worth the effort, drawing the client further in.",
  "predicament": "A trusted helper talks up an easy windfall while pretending indifference, so that his employer will push to claim it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 39,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The client and assistant go to the office through a vast crowd of applicants; the assistant forces a way through for him.",
  "predicament": "A hopeful applicant facing a crowd of rivals would give up, but a helper insists on pushing him through to the front."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 40,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The man at the office rejects everyone else but greets the client warmly and declares him perfectly suited.",
  "predicament": "A hopeful applicant is singled out and flattered by the person in charge, above all the other candidates."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 41,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The manager tests the hair by pulling it, fills the post, then feigns doubt because the client is unmarried before letting it pass.",
  "predicament": "A person offered a windfall is made to feel it nearly slipped away, so he grasps it more eagerly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 42,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The client agrees to strict hours copying an encyclopedia, forbidden to leave the room, while the assistant offers to mind the shop.",
  "predicament": "A person accepts easy pay on the strange condition that he stay away from his own business for hours every day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 43,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "That night he suspects a hoax, but next day finds everything as promised, and is set to copying and locked out at two.",
  "predicament": "Someone who suspects an offer is too good to be true is reassured when it is paid exactly as promised."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 44,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Weeks pass with pay every Saturday until one morning the door is locked with a notice saying the fund is dissolved.",
  "predicament": "A person who has grown comfortable on easy money finds it cut off without warning or explanation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 45,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The client is stung by their laughter; he describes chasing the vanished manager through false names and addresses.",
  "predicament": "A person left stranded by a vanished employer finds every name and address he was given was false."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 46,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The client wants to know who played this trick on him; the investigator questions him closely about how his assistant came to him.",
  "predicament": "A person who has lost easy money wants to know who fooled him, and does not yet suspect the helper he trusts."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 47,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The assistant's description excites the investigator; after the client leaves he says the case needs prompt action.",
  "predicament": "An investigator realises a client's trusted helper is not who he seems, while the client suspects nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 48,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator smokes on the problem in silence, then abruptly proposes an afternoon concert.",
  "predicament": "An investigator has a puzzle half solved and needs quiet thought before he can decide what to do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 49,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He inspects the shop, raps the pavement and asks the assistant for directions, only to look at the knees of his trousers.",
  "predicament": "An investigator calls at a suspect's door on a pretext, to look for one telltale sign without alerting him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 50,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He surveys the busy street behind the shop, noting the buildings that back onto it, then turns to play.",
  "predicament": "An investigator quietly maps the ground around a suspect's hideout before revealing his suspicions to anyone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 51,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "After the concert he tells the narrator a serious crime is planned for that night and asks for his help.",
  "predicament": "An investigator knows a serious crime will happen tonight and has only hours to stop it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 52,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He asks the narrator to come armed; the narrator goes home puzzled, sensing the assistant is a dangerous man.",
  "predicament": "A companion is asked to come armed on a night venture he does not understand, trusting a friend who will not explain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 53,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The narrator meets a police officer and a gloomy banker who doubts the expedition, while the officer patronises the investigator.",
  "predicament": "An outsider asked to trust an investigator's plan doubts it, while the official backing it patronises him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 54,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator promises the banker a large stake and the officer a notorious, well-born criminal he has never managed to catch.",
  "predicament": "An official who has chased a clever, well-born criminal for years is offered a chance to finally take him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 55,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "They reach the bank's vault; the banker thumps the hollow floor and is sharply told to sit down and not interfere.",
  "predicament": "A person whose property is at stake nearly spoils a trap by carelessness and is ordered to keep still."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 56,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator checks the floor and explains they are in a bank vault holding a large reserve of borrowed gold.",
  "predicament": "A guardian of valuables learns that thieves are about to strike and that his own careless talk drew them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "They put out the light and hide behind crates, armed, waiting for thieves who may shoot.",
  "predicament": "Watchers hide in the dark to ambush dangerous thieves, knowing the thieves may fight their way out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "After a long, tense wait a light appears and a hand gropes up through a crack in the floor.",
  "predicament": "Someone lying in ambush must keep still through a long dark wait until the first sign of an intruder appears."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The thieves climb up; the investigator seizes the leader and knocks his pistol away, while the accomplice flees into waiting arms.",
  "predicament": "A clever thief walks straight into an ambush and must decide whether to fight, flee or give in gracefully."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The captured criminal insists on being addressed with respect; the banker thanks the investigator, who asks only for his expenses.",
  "predicament": "A captured criminal clings to his dignity and birth even as he is led away in handcuffs."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The investigator explains that the fund was a lure to get the shopkeeper out of the way every day.",
  "predicament": "An investigator explains how a helper who worked for too little was the tell that exposed a whole scheme."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 62,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He explains how the assistant's cellar habits, worn knees and the bank next door revealed the tunnel.",
  "predicament": "An investigator traces a scheme back through a helper's odd habits and the neighbour who had something worth taking."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 63,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He explains how he knew the attempt would come that night, then complains that ordinary life bores him.",
  "predicament": "An investigator who has just solved a case feels ordinary life closing in again and dreads the idleness."
 }
]