[
 {
  "chunk": 316,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "From the window the narrator sees a dignified man running and grimacing in the snow, checking house numbers; the investigator guesses he is coming to them.",
  "predicament": "A respectable person is driven so far by a crisis that he runs through the street like a madman."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 317,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The man bursts in, beats his head against the wall in despair, and is calmed by the investigator.",
  "predicament": "A person overwhelmed by sudden disaster can barely speak, and fears he will be taken for mad."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 318,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He is a leading banker; public disgrace and private grief have struck together, and people of the highest rank may suffer.",
  "predicament": "A respected person facing public disgrace and private grief at once must explain himself to a stranger."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 319,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "A client of the very highest rank asked for a large, urgent loan, preferring business to asking favours of friends.",
  "predicament": "A person of great standing asks a lender for a large secret loan rather than owe favours to friends."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 320,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "As security he left a priceless national treasure, promising to reclaim it in four days.",
  "predicament": "A lender is asked to hold a priceless, irreplaceable treasure as security, and cannot politely refuse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 321,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The client stressed discretion and that any damage would cause a great public scandal; the banker regretted taking it.",
  "predicament": "A person entrusted with something irreplaceable realises too late how much he will lose if anything happens to it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 322,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "Fearing burglary, he carried it home and locked it in his bureau; he describes his trusted servants and a newer maid with admirers.",
  "predicament": "A worried custodian takes a treasure home for safety, into a household he trusts completely."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 323,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "His only son, spoiled after his mother's death, has fallen into gambling debts through a charming older friend.",
  "predicament": "A parent who indulged a child now watches him sink into debt under the influence of a worldly friend."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 324,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The friend is fascinating but untrustworthy; his adopted niece is his loving right hand, though she twice refused the son.",
  "predicament": "A parent is charmed by a son's dangerous friend, and trusts completely a young woman he raised as his own."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 325,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He told his son and niece about the treasure; the son warned the lock was weak, then begged for money to pay a gambling debt and was refused.",
  "predicament": "A young man desperate to pay a debt of honour is refused by his parent on the night a treasure is in the house."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 326,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He checked the treasure; his niece, closing a window, reported that a maid had slipped out to meet someone.",
  "predicament": "A trusted young woman, caught at an open window at night, points out someone else's secret meeting instead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 327,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "At night he found his son holding the damaged treasure, and accused him of theft; the son denied anything was missing.",
  "predicament": "A parent catches his son with a damaged treasure in his hands and calls him a thief before hearing a word."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 328,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The son refuses to say more; the niece faints; the police come and the son asks to leave the house for five minutes.",
  "predicament": "A young man wrongly accused by his own parent refuses to explain himself, out of pride and to protect someone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 329,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The banker begs his son to reveal where the missing stones are, promising forgiveness.",
  "predicament": "A parent begs a son he thinks guilty to confess and make amends, promising all will be forgiven."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 330,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The son sneers at forgiveness and is arrested; nothing is found; the banker has lost honour, gems and son in one night.",
  "predicament": "A young man spurns forgiveness for a crime he did not commit and is taken away, saying nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 331,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The investigator doubts the son's guilt, noting his silence cuts both ways and the police theory makes no sense.",
  "predicament": "An investigator notices an accused man's silence could mean innocence as easily as guilt."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 332,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He lays out how implausible the father's theory is and proposes going to the house.",
  "predicament": "An investigator points out that the theory everyone believes asks the accused to have done something absurd."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 333,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "They travel to the banker's house; the narrator still thinks the son guilty but trusts the investigator.",
  "predicament": "A companion is sure the accused is guilty but trusts his friend's doubts enough to keep an open mind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 334,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The investigator walks round the house; the pale, grieving niece asks the banker to free the son.",
  "predicament": "A young woman grief-stricken over an accused cousin begs her guardian to release him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 335,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "She insists the son is innocent and asks that the matter be dropped; the investigator agrees he is innocent.",
  "predicament": "A person pleads for a matter to be dropped entirely, which would also bury her own part in it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 336,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "She confirms the maid's meeting with a man; the investigator surprises her by knowing he has a wooden leg.",
  "predicament": "A person offering a convenient alternative suspect is startled when the investigator knows more than she said."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 337,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The investigator examines a window sill and the bureau, and asks the banker to break off a corner of the treasure.",
  "predicament": "An investigator tests the official theory by showing how the crime could not have happened quietly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 338,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He shows breaking it would make a loud noise; he searches outside alone and says only that his opinion is unchanged.",
  "predicament": "An investigator has seen enough to be sure of a young man's innocence but will not yet say who is guilty."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 339,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He gets a free hand to recover the gems at any cost, and goes out disguised as a loafer.",
  "predicament": "An investigator is given a free hand and unlimited money to recover a treasure quietly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 340,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He returns in good spirits with an old boot, then goes out again.",
  "predicament": "An investigator in disguise has found the thread he was looking for and hurries to follow it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 341,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "Next morning the banker, aged by grief, reports his niece has deserted him.",
  "predicament": "A person who has lost his reputation and his son now learns he has lost the one he trusted most as well."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 342,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "Her note says she brought trouble on him and has gone; the investigator produces the missing stones for a fee.",
  "predicament": "A guardian is left a note by a ward who has fled, and fears the worst."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 343,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The banker is saved, but is told he owes his son an apology; the niece has fled with the son's dangerous friend.",
  "predicament": "A parent who wrongly accused his own child learns the real culprit was the person he trusted most."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 344,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The investigator reveals the friend was a ruined, heartless gambler who seduced the niece into handing out the treasure.",
  "predicament": "A trusting guardian learns his beloved ward was seduced into betraying him by a charming, heartless man."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 345,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The son saw his cousin carry the treasure out and hand it through a window to someone.",
  "predicament": "A young man secretly watches the person he loves commit a theft against his own family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 346,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He chased the thief, struggled and recovered most of it; he kept silent to protect the woman he loved, even under arrest.",
  "predicament": "A young man accused of a theft he tried to stop keeps silent rather than expose the person he loves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 347,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The investigator explains he read the maid's meeting and the lane's story in the snow.",
  "predicament": "An investigator reads a whole night's secret comings and goings from the tracks left behind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 348,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The tracks showed a booted man waiting and a barefoot man chasing him, a struggle, and blood.",
  "predicament": "An investigator reconstructs from footprints how an accused man chased the real thief and fought him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 349,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He reasoned only the niece could have brought the treasure, since the son would only shield her.",
  "predicament": "An investigator reasons that an accused man would only keep silent to protect someone he loves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 350,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He identified her lover as the dangerous friend, confirmed it through the friend's servant and cast-off shoes.",
  "predicament": "An investigator confirms a suspect's guilt through the suspect's own household and a pair of old shoes, without alerting him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 351,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "He confronted the thief at gunpoint, promised no prosecution, and bought the stones back from a receiver.",
  "predicament": "An investigator bargains with a thief, trading the promise of no prosecution for the return of what was stolen."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 352,
  "story": 10,
  "summary": "The banker thanks him and goes to apologise to his son; the investigator predicts the niece will be punished enough by her lover.",
  "predicament": "A deceived guardian rushes to apologise to the child he wronged, while the betrayer is left to her fate."
 }
]