[
 {
  "chunk": 90,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The narrator's wife urges him to accept the investigator's telegram asking him to come on a country murder case; he joins him at the train.",
  "predicament": "A married man is invited on a dangerous errand by an old friend, and his spouse urges him to go."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 91,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "On the train the investigator explains that a son is accused of his father's murder, a simple case that is hard for that reason.",
  "predicament": "An investigator takes up a case where the evidence already points firmly at one person, and resolves to assume nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 92,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He describes two former colonists who settled near each other, one rich, one his tenant, and the tenant's walk to an appointment he never returned from.",
  "predicament": "Two old associates from far away live side by side, one oddly dependent on the other, until one is found dead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 93,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Witnesses saw the father walk alone to the pool, followed shortly by his son carrying a gun.",
  "predicament": "A young man is seen following his father with a weapon shortly before the father is found dead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 94,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "A girl saw father and son quarrelling violently; the son then ran for help with blood on his hands, and the dead father's wounds fit his gun; he was arrested.",
  "predicament": "A son who quarrelled with his father just before the father's death is found with blood on his hands and arrested."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 95,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The narrator thinks the case damning; the investigator warns circumstantial evidence can point two ways, and that a young woman believes the son innocent.",
  "predicament": "An accused man's case looks hopeless to everyone except one loyal friend who has brought in outside help."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 96,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator notes the son said at his arrest that it was no more than he deserved, which the jury took as guilt.",
  "predicament": "An accused man's unguarded remark at his arrest is taken by everyone as proof he did it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 97,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator reads the remark as the natural self-reproach of an innocent son who had quarrelled with his father.",
  "predicament": "An investigator must decide whether a suspect's calm acceptance of arrest shows guilt or a clear conscience."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 98,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator hands over the local paper carrying the son's own statement at the inquest.",
  "predicament": "Someone studying a case turns to the accused's own words for the first time, hoping for a crack in the story."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 99,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The son's statement: he heard his father's call, found him by the pool, quarrelled, walked off, heard a cry and found him dying.",
  "predicament": "An accused man tells a true story of a quarrel and a death that sounds exactly like the story of a guilty man."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 100,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "At the inquest the son refused to say what the quarrel was about, reported odd dying words, and thought he saw a grey garment that later vanished.",
  "predicament": "A suspect refuses to explain the one thing that could clear him, to protect a secret of his own."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 101,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The garment vanished while his back was turned; the coroner calls every point in his account suspicious.",
  "predicament": "An accused man's strangest details, which could clear him, are exactly what make the official doubt his story."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 102,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator says the odd details favour the son and resolves to assume his story is true; at the country town a sly police officer meets them.",
  "predicament": "An investigator chooses to believe an accused man's unlikely story and test where it leads, against official opinion."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 103,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The officer thinks the case plain; the accused's childhood friend bursts in insisting he is innocent.",
  "predicament": "A loyal friend of an accused man insists on his innocence to investigators who think the case already closed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 104,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The young woman reveals the quarrel was about the father's wish that the two marry, which neither the son nor her own father wanted.",
  "predicament": "Someone defending an accused friend reveals a private family quarrel she was part of, hoping it will help him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 105,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Her father, who knew the dead man in the colonies, has collapsed with illness; the officer rebukes the investigator for raising false hopes.",
  "predicament": "An investigator gives a frightened friend hope that the accused is innocent, and is accused of cruelty for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 106,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Alone, the narrator studies the inquest report and notes the fatal blow came from behind, and ponders the dying word and grey cloth.",
  "predicament": "A companion left alone turns over the evidence himself, trying to see what the officials missed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 107,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator returns: the son knows nothing more, and is honest but slow.",
  "predicament": "An investigator visits an accused man and finds him honest, bewildered, and no help at all in clearing himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 108,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The son had secretly married unwisely, so could not propose to the woman he loved; that secret wife has now abandoned him.",
  "predicament": "A young man hid a disastrous secret marriage from a harsh father who pressed him to marry someone else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 109,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator stresses the father had an appointment and called out before he knew his son was near; the rich neighbour is said to be dying.",
  "predicament": "An investigator notices a dead man was meeting someone else entirely, someone the whole district has overlooked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 110,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator finds it odd the poor tenant expected to marry his son to his rich patron's heiress; the officer mocks theories.",
  "predicament": "An investigator suspects a poor man had some hold over the rich neighbour who helped him, while an official mocks theories."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 111,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "At the farm the investigator measures the boots of the dead man and his son, then follows the path to the pool.",
  "predicament": "An investigator gathers small physical evidence at a grieving household before walking the ground where the death happened."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 112,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator follows the trail like a hound, ignoring questions, while the officer watches with contempt.",
  "predicament": "An investigator absorbed in the hunt ignores his companions while a sceptical official looks on with contempt."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 113,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "At the pool he reads the trampled ground and knows the officer has been raking in the water.",
  "predicament": "An investigator finds the scene of a crime already trampled by careless officials who got there first."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 114,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He finds the son's tracks, the father's, and a third person's odd tiptoe tracks behind a tree, and gathers ash and a stone.",
  "predicament": "An investigator finds signs that a third person watched a quarrel from hiding and slipped back for something left behind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 115,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He tells the officer the stone was the weapon and describes the killer in detail; the officer scoffs at theories.",
  "predicament": "An investigator describes a culprit in detail, and the official in charge refuses to go looking for him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 116,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The officer refuses to hunt for such a man; the investigator is troubled and asks the narrator's advice.",
  "predicament": "An investigator knows who is guilty and is troubled about what to do with the knowledge."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 117,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator explains that the call was one used by colonists and that the dying word named a place in the colony.",
  "predicament": "An investigator realises a dying man's half-heard words were naming his killer, not raving."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 118,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He explains how he read the killer's height, lameness, left hand and habits from tracks and ash; the narrator sees who it must be.",
  "predicament": "An investigator has built a case against someone from small signs, and the only question left is what to do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 119,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The dying rich neighbour arrives and admits he knows why; he would have spoken if the son were convicted, but fears for his daughter.",
  "predicament": "A dying man guilty of a killing would confess to save the innocent accused, but dreads what it will do to his child."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 120,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator, not bound to the police, takes a signed confession to use only if needed; the old man begins his story of being in the dead man's power.",
  "predicament": "An investigator bound only to his client offers a dying culprit a signed confession to use only if an innocent is condemned."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 121,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The old man confesses that as a young man in the colony he became a highway robber.",
  "predicament": "A respected man confesses that his fortune began in a violent crime committed long ago under another name."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 122,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He robbed a gold convoy but spared a driver who memorised his face, then went home rich, reformed and raised a daughter.",
  "predicament": "A reformed man who built a respectable life on stolen money meets the one witness who can expose him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 123,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The witness blackmailed him for twenty years, living off him, and at last demanded the man's daughter marry his son.",
  "predicament": "A man long blackmailed over his past pays everything he is asked until the blackmailer demands his child."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 124,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He overheard the blackmailer urging his son to marry the daughter, and struck him down in desperation; the investigator refuses to judge him.",
  "predicament": "A desperate man bled for years by a blackmailer kills him to protect his child, and would do it again."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 125,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The investigator decides to keep the confession secret unless the son is condemned; the son is acquitted and the old man dies months later.",
  "predicament": "An investigator chooses mercy over the law, keeping a dying culprit's secret as long as the innocent goes free."
 }
]