[
 {
  "chunk": 154,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator recalls an addicted friend; late one night the addict's wife bursts in, veiled and sobbing, to the narrator's wife.",
  "predicament": "A frightened spouse turns up late at a friend's door in tears, needing help she cannot get anywhere else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 155,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The wife explains her husband has been missing in a drug den for two days, and she cannot go in after him herself.",
  "predicament": "A spouse knows where her addicted partner is hiding but cannot bring herself to go into that place to fetch him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 156,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator offers to go alone and bring the man home; he descends into the den by the docks.",
  "predicament": "Someone agrees to walk into a dangerous den alone to bring home a friend's lost spouse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 157,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Among the stupefied smokers he finds his friend, who has lost track of the days and weeps.",
  "predicament": "A person sent to rescue an addict finds him confused, ashamed, and unaware how long he has been gone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 158,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The addict agrees to go home and asks the narrator to settle his debt.",
  "predicament": "An ashamed addict agrees to go home but cannot even settle his own debts without help."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 159,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "An old man by the brazier whispers to him; it is the investigator in disguise, who asks him to get rid of his friend.",
  "predicament": "Someone on a rescue errand is secretly signalled by a disguised friend who must not be recognised."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 160,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator sends the addict home and joins the investigator, who was there hunting an enemy.",
  "predicament": "A person finishes one errand of mercy and is drawn at once into a friend's far more dangerous hunt."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 161,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The investigator explains the den's owner has sworn revenge on him, and that a missing man may have been murdered there.",
  "predicament": "An investigator risks his life in disguise among enemies who would kill him if they knew him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 162,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "They drive into the country; the investigator dreads facing the missing man's wife without news.",
  "predicament": "An investigator dreads facing a waiting spouse when he still has no news of the person she has lost."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 163,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He explains the missing man was a respectable, prosperous husband and father with no debts.",
  "predicament": "An investigator is baffled by the disappearance of a respectable family man with no apparent troubles or enemies."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 164,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The man went to town promising his son a toy; by chance his wife was called to an office near the den the same day.",
  "predicament": "A spouse happens to be in a rough part of town on an errand at the very hour her partner is there."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 165,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The wife saw her husband at the den's upper window, agitated and half-dressed, before he was pulled or leapt back.",
  "predicament": "A spouse glimpses her partner in a place he should never be, in distress, before he vanishes from sight."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 166,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "She was thrown out of the den, fetched the police, and found only a crippled beggar there, until she found the toy her husband had promised.",
  "predicament": "A spouse is told she imagined seeing her partner, until she finds the proof he was really there."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 167,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Blood on the window, the man's clothes hidden, and the high tide suggest he was killed and thrown into the river.",
  "predicament": "Searchers find every sign that a missing man was killed and his body disposed of, but no body."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 168,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The den keeper, a known villain, claims to know nothing of his lodger's doings or the missing man's clothes.",
  "predicament": "A known villain denies all knowledge of a crime in his own house, and the evidence cannot yet contradict him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 169,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The investigator describes the lodger, a well-known scarred beggar with a quick wit, the last man to see the missing man.",
  "predicament": "A notorious, pitiable figure everyone knows by sight becomes the chief suspect in a disappearance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 170,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The narrator doubts a cripple could overpower a strong man; the investigator says he is powerful apart from his limp.",
  "predicament": "Someone doubts a suspect could have done it, and is told the suspect is stronger than he looks."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 171,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The beggar was arrested with blood on his sleeve which he blamed on a cut, denied all, and called the wife mad; the missing man's coat turned up in the mud.",
  "predicament": "A suspect with blood on his sleeve denies everything, insists the only witness is mad, and waits."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 172,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The coat's pockets were stuffed with coins; the police theorise the beggar weighted it to sink with the body.",
  "predicament": "Investigators build a plausible theory of a murder that fits every fact and is entirely wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 173,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "No questions are answered; they arrive at the missing man's country home, where his wife is waiting.",
  "predicament": "An investigator who has found nothing arrives to face a waiting spouse who hopes for news."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 174,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The wife runs out hoping for news and is told there is none, good or bad; she greets them warmly.",
  "predicament": "A person waiting for word of a missing partner meets her helpers at the door and learns there is no news."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 175,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "She asks for his honest opinion, and he says her husband is dead; she then produces a letter from him received that day.",
  "predicament": "An investigator gives a waiting spouse his honest belief that her partner is dead, and she shows him proof he is wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 176,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The investigator examines the envelope and the note, written in her husband's hurried hand and enclosing his ring.",
  "predicament": "An investigator must decide whether a letter from a supposedly dead man is genuine or a clever forgery."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 177,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The note asks her to wait in patience; he warns it may be forged or old; she insists she would sense if he were dead.",
  "predicament": "A spouse trusts her own certainty that her partner is alive, while her helper warns the proof may be forged."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 178,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He questions her closely about what she saw at the window and whether her husband ever took drugs.",
  "predicament": "An investigator presses a witness on exactly what she saw, trying to separate what happened from what she feared."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 179,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The investigator sits up all night smoking and thinking on a heap of cushions.",
  "predicament": "An investigator stays up all night turning a puzzle over until he either solves it or knows he cannot."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 180,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "At dawn he calls himself a fool, says he has the key in his bag, and drives to town.",
  "predicament": "An investigator realises at dawn that the answer was in front of him all along, and hurries to test it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 181,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "At the police station he asks after the beggar, whom the officer calls filthy and refusing to wash.",
  "predicament": "An investigator calls on the authorities to see a suspect who has refused to let anyone see his face clean."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 182,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "They look into the cell at the sleeping, scarred beggar; the investigator produces a sponge.",
  "predicament": "An investigator comes to unmask a sleeping prisoner, bringing the humble tool that will do it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 183,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He washes the prisoner's face and reveals the missing man; the man claims that since no crime occurred he is illegally held.",
  "predicament": "A respectable man living a secret double life is unmasked in custody and tries to bluster his way out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 184,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The man groans that he hid for his children's sake; the investigator offers to keep it out of court and the papers.",
  "predicament": "A man exposed in a shameful secret life is offered discretion if he makes a full confession to the authorities."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 185,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He confesses that as a journalist he posed as a beggar for a story, then used it to pay a debt.",
  "predicament": "A person confesses that a disguise first used for honest reasons became the easy answer to money trouble."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 186,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Begging paid far better than honest work, so he gave up his trade, married and lived well, his wife never knowing.",
  "predicament": "A person earning well by a shameful secret trade builds a respectable life on it, keeping the truth even from his spouse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 187,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Seen at the window by his wife, he disguised himself, threw out his weighted coat, and was arrested for his own murder.",
  "predicament": "A person seen in his secret life by his spouse would rather be accused of his own murder than be recognised."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 188,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "He sent a note to his wife that was delayed; the police agree to hush it up if he gives up begging for good.",
  "predicament": "A person caught in a shameful double life is allowed to keep his secret only by swearing to give it up forever."
 }
]