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 {
  "chunk": 353,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The investigator complains that the narrator's accounts dwell on colour rather than reasoning; the narrator bristles at his egotism.",
  "predicament": "A person is told by a proud companion that his account of their shared work misses the only thing that matters."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 354,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The investigator insists his art is impersonal and that the narrator has turned lectures into tales; he is in a bad temper after a fruitless search.",
  "predicament": "A proud, bored companion lectures a friend on his failings because nothing worthwhile has come his way."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 355,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He laments that great cases are over and his work has sunk to trifles, and shows a letter from a young woman as proof.",
  "predicament": "A person who has lost interest in his work complains it has sunk to trifles, just as a new request arrives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 356,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The young woman asks whether she should accept a post; she has no family to advise her.",
  "predicament": "A young person alone in the world, with no one to advise her, asks strangers whether to accept a strange offer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 357,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Out of work and running out of money, she was spotted at an agency by a stout, genial man who declared her perfect.",
  "predicament": "A young person running out of money is singled out with delight by a stranger with a job to offer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 358,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He offered far more than her usual pay, and an advance, insisting a lady of her bearing deserved it.",
  "predicament": "A person in need is offered far more than her work is worth, and an advance, by a flattering stranger."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 359,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He said the duties were light, caring for a cruel little child, and she must humour his wife by wearing chosen dresses and sitting where told.",
  "predicament": "An employee is told that generous pay comes with odd conditions she must accept without asking why."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 360,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He demanded she cut her hair short; she refused and lost the post, to the agent's annoyance.",
  "predicament": "A person refuses one strange demand attached to a generous offer, and loses it along with her agent's goodwill."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 361,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Short of money and in debt, she regretted refusing; then a letter came from the man renewing the offer.",
  "predicament": "A person who turned down easy money on principle begins to regret it as the bills mount."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 362,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He raised the pay further, explaining the dress and the hair as his wife's fancies; she has decided to accept but asks for advice.",
  "predicament": "A person is offered even more money to accept conditions that make no sense, and decides to take it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 363,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The investigator says no sister of his should take it; the pay is suspiciously high; he promises to come if she is in danger.",
  "predicament": "An adviser warns that pay too good to be true hides something, but promises help if the job turns dangerous."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 364,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She leaves cheerfully; the narrator and investigator wonder for a fortnight whether the man is a crank or a villain.",
  "predicament": "Helpers wait uneasily for news of someone who has gone into a situation they could not explain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 365,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "An urgent telegram asks them to come; they travel by train through spring countryside.",
  "predicament": "Someone who went into danger alone sends an urgent call for help, and her helpers set off at once."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 366,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The narrator admires the scenery; the investigator says isolated houses fill him with horror.",
  "predicament": "Someone admires a peaceful, isolated place, and is told isolation lets cruelty go unseen and unpunished."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 367,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He explains that in lonely places cruelty goes unnoticed; they meet the young woman at an inn.",
  "predicament": "An adviser fears for someone living far from neighbours, where no one would hear if something went wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 368,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She says she has not been mistreated but cannot understand her employers; she describes the damp, isolated house.",
  "predicament": "An employee in a lonely house has suffered no harm but cannot understand what her employers really want."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 369,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The wife is not mad but silent and young; the man's grown daughter supposedly left because she disliked her stepmother.",
  "predicament": "An employee learns that the grown child of the household left under circumstances that do not quite add up."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 370,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The wife is devoted but secretly sad; the child is spoiled and delights in cruelty to small creatures.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer in a household notices a sad, silent spouse and a cruel child, and senses a hidden sorrow."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 371,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The two servants are unpleasant, the man often drunk; she is asked to put on a blue dress.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer in an isolated house is surrounded by sullen, watchful helpers and asked to do something strange."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 372,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Wearing a dress that has been worn before, she is seated with her back to the window while the man tells funny stories.",
  "predicament": "An employee is made to perform a strange routine for her employers, and does not know who is watching."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 373,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The performance is repeated; she reads aloud, carefully positioned, then is told to stop and change.",
  "predicament": "An employee repeats a strange performance for her employers and grows curious what it is for."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 374,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "With a hidden mirror she sees a man on the road watching; the wife sees her and has her wave him away.",
  "predicament": "A person who secretly finds out she is being used to deceive someone is made to send the watcher away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 375,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She was shown a starved guard dog set loose each night and warned never to go out after dark.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer is warned that a savage beast is loosed every night and that going outside after dark would be fatal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 376,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "At night she saw the huge dog pacing the lawn.",
  "predicament": "A person in a lonely house sees for herself the guard that keeps everyone in and everyone out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 377,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "In a locked drawer she found a coil of hair exactly like her own cut hair.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer finds a trace of someone who was here before her, someone who looked exactly like her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 378,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She saw the man emerge angrily from a locked wing and asked about its shuttered window.",
  "predicament": "A person asks an innocent question about a locked part of the house, and sees her employer's mask slip."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 379,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He claimed it was his darkroom with no jest in his eyes; later, finding the key left by the drunk servant, she slipped in.",
  "predicament": "A person who senses she is not meant to know something takes her chance to find out when a door is left open."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 380,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She found a barred, padlocked door and a shadow moving behind it; she ran in terror straight into her employer.",
  "predicament": "A person exploring a forbidden place sees signs that someone is imprisoned there, and runs straight into her employer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 381,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He soothed her too sweetly, then threatened to throw her to the dog if she ever went in again.",
  "predicament": "A person caught snooping is soothed by her employer, then threatened with a terrible death if she ever does it again."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 382,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Terrified, she telegraphed the investigator, and came to town while her employers go out that evening.",
  "predicament": "A person frightened of everyone in the house she lives in secretly sends for help and returns to wait."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 383,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The investigator asks if she can lock the female servant in the cellar that evening; she agrees.",
  "predicament": "A frightened young woman is asked to take one more bold risk so that her helpers can get inside."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 384,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He reasons she was hired to impersonate the daughter, who is imprisoned, so her faithful suitor will think she no longer wants him.",
  "predicament": "A person realises she was hired to impersonate a captive, so that the captive's friends would give up on her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 385,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "They arrive; she has locked the servant in the cellar; they break the barred door.",
  "predicament": "Rescuers force their way to a prisoner's door, fearing they have come too late."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 386,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The room is empty, the prisoner taken through the skylight; the employer returns, calls them thieves and runs for the dog.",
  "predicament": "Rescuers find the prisoner gone and are caught by her jailer, who goes to set a savage beast on them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 387,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The starving dog attacks its master; the narrator shoots it; the female servant arrives, ready to tell what she knows.",
  "predicament": "A cruel master is attacked by the very beast he kept to terrorise others."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 388,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The servant explains the daughter's father wanted control of her money and imprisoned her when a suitor appeared.",
  "predicament": "A household insider reveals that a parent imprisoned his own child to keep control of her money when she wished to marry."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 389,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The suitor bribed the servants to help the daughter escape; the investigator leaves, their standing there doubtful.",
  "predicament": "A faithful suitor quietly buys the household's help to free the person he loves from her own father."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 390,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The master survives broken; the daughter married her suitor; the young woman went on to success.",
  "predicament": "A cruel parent is left broken, the imprisoned child goes free and marries, and the hired stand-in moves on."
 }
]