[
 {
  "chunk": 64,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "By the fire the investigator argues that real life is stranger than fiction; the narrator doubts it, finding reported crimes dull.",
  "predicament": "Two companions argue whether ordinary life hides anything stranger than invention, each sure the other is wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 65,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The narrator picks a newspaper case to prove his point; the investigator, who worked on it, shows its details were stranger than any invention.",
  "predicament": "A person picks an example to prove a friend wrong, and the friend turns it against him with facts he lacked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 66,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator shows gifts from grateful royal clients and says his current cases are important but dull, then spots a client in the street.",
  "predicament": "An investigator has many weighty cases and none worth his interest, and hopes the stranger outside will bring one."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 67,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "A large, nervous woman hesitates on the pavement before hurrying to the door; the investigator reads it as a perplexed love affair.",
  "predicament": "A hesitant stranger works up her nerve to bring a private trouble to people she does not know."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 68,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator startles the woman by reading her work from her hands; she says she would give her income to know what became of her missing fiancé, and that her stepfather would do nothing.",
  "predicament": "A young woman whose fiancé has vanished defies a relative who wants her to drop it, and seeks help alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 69,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "She explains her young stepfather, her mother's remarriage and the sale of her father's business; she has a separate income of her own.",
  "predicament": "A young woman with a small fortune of her own explains a household where a new relative controls the money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 70,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "She lets her family draw her income while she lives at home, and supports herself by her own work.",
  "predicament": "A young woman hands her own income to the family she lives with, never asking who really benefits."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 71,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Against her stepfather's wishes she went to a ball while he was abroad and met a shy suitor, who then could not call once her stepfather returned.",
  "predicament": "A young woman defies a controlling relative to go out, meets a suitor, and must see him in secret."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 72,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "She was engaged at once and wrote daily, but never learned where he worked or lived; he insisted her letters be handwritten and his were typed.",
  "predicament": "A person is engaged to someone whose address and work she never learned, and sees nothing strange in it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 73,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The suitor was shy, whispered, wore tinted glasses and preferred to walk after dark.",
  "predicament": "A trusting woman describes a suitor who avoided daylight and hid his face and voice, and sees only shyness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 74,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The suitor pressed a quick wedding while her stepfather was away, made her swear fidelity, and her mother backed him; her letter to her stepfather missed him.",
  "predicament": "A young woman is rushed into a secret wedding, sworn to faithfulness, and urged by her own mother to tell no one."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "On the wedding morning the groom vanished from a closed cab; she believes some danger took him and that he will claim her.",
  "predicament": "A bride is left waiting at the altar when her groom vanishes, and chooses to believe he was taken rather than fled."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Her mother forbade her to speak of it; her stepfather agreed something happened; she sobs, and the investigator advises her to forget the man.",
  "predicament": "A jilted woman is told by everyone, even her helper, to forget a man she has sworn to wait for."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "She refuses to forget and swears to stay true; the investigator says the case is trite but the woman herself was interesting.",
  "predicament": "A deceived woman refuses advice to forget and vows to keep faith with someone who will never return."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 78,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator asks the narrator what he noticed about her dress; the narrator lists colours and details.",
  "predicament": "A companion is tested on what he noticed and must describe a stranger without knowing what matters."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 79,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator praises the method but notes what was missed: her work marks, short sight, and odd, half-buttoned boots that show haste.",
  "predicament": "A person learns he looked at everything and noticed nothing, and is shown how to read haste in a stranger."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He notes her inky glove, then reads the missing man's description and points out that even the signatures on his letters were typed.",
  "predicament": "An investigator notices that a missing man never once let his own handwriting be seen."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He writes to the stepfather's employer and to the stepfather himself, asking the latter to call.",
  "predicament": "An investigator quietly sends for a relative he suspects, without saying why, and waits for the reply."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator says the matter is solved but no law can touch the culprit; the stepfather arrives.",
  "predicament": "An investigator has found the culprit and knows the law cannot punish him for what he did."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The smooth stepfather says the girl should not have come and doubts the missing man can be found; he starts when told he will be.",
  "predicament": "A smooth relative who hoped a matter would be dropped is startled to hear the missing man will be found."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator shows the stepfather's typed letters match the suitor's machine; the man tries to leave and the door is locked on him.",
  "predicament": "A deceiver shown proof that his own letters match the ones he forged tries to leave and finds the door locked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The stepfather collapses, stammers that it is not a crime, and the investigator agrees but calls it heartless.",
  "predicament": "A deceiver caught out pleads that nothing he did was against the law, and is told it was cruel all the same."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator explains the stepfather courted the girl in disguise to keep her unmarried and keep her income; he pleads it began as a joke.",
  "predicament": "A person who posed as a suitor to keep a relative's money in the family is exposed and pleads it was a joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 87,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He staged a vanishing to bind her to a phantom for years; recovering, the stepfather sneers.",
  "predicament": "A deceiver hears his whole scheme laid out, then gathers his nerve and sneers because nothing can be proved against him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 88,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "He warns the investigator he is the one breaking the law by locking the door; the investigator reaches for a whip and the man flees.",
  "predicament": "An investigator faces a cruel deceiver the law cannot touch and is tempted to punish him with his own hands."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 89,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The investigator explains how the suitor and stepfather never appeared together, and how he checked the description and the typewriter.",
  "predicament": "An investigator explains how he proved two men were one, by noticing they were never seen together."
 }
]