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{"chunk":27,"story":2,"summary":"An old watchman recalls a shipmate, an aged miser worth six hundred pounds, who fell ill a month out on the voyage home.","predicament":"A man who has hoarded his savings all his life falls ill far from anywhere he could spend them."},
{"chunk":28,"story":2,"summary":"The dying miser refuses to believe he is dying and leave his money; his shipmates circle hopefully, and one finds a money belt on him and guesses his plan to be buried with it.","predicament":"A dying miser, surrounded by people hoping to inherit, is determined that nobody will get his money."},
{"chunk":29,"story":2,"summary":"The miser dies boasting that he had a boy throw his banknotes overboard; one sailor scares the boy into silence, and the narrator threatens to tell unless let in on the scheme.","predicament":"Someone who spots a colleague quietly scheming to take unclaimed money must decide whether to expose him or join in."},
{"chunk":30,"story":2,"summary":"The schemer reveals he thinks the boy kept the money; the two agree to split it, and search the boy's bunk and pockets at night without success.","predicament":"Two partners convinced a weaker person is secretly holding a fortune want to find it before anyone else learns of it."},
{"chunk":31,"story":2,"summary":"A night search is foiled when a ticklish shipmate wakes screaming; a week of prodding the boy finds nothing, so they corner him and demand the money outright.","predicament":"A schemer whose secret searches keep failing decides to confront the person he suspects directly."},
{"chunk":32,"story":2,"summary":"The boy insists he threw the money overboard; they search him, offer him a third, then threaten to have him searched ashore and jailed.","predicament":"Someone suspected of hiding a windfall is pressed with bribes and threats by people who have no right to it."},
{"chunk":33,"story":2,"summary":"When the sailor heads to tell the captain, the boy gives in: he kept the money but, frightened by the searches, hid it in an officer's mattress where he cannot now reach it.","predicament":"Someone forced to share a hidden windfall admits it is now stuck where neither partner can get at it."},
{"chunk":34,"story":2,"summary":"Neither the man nor the boy can get aft unseen, the officer sleeps on the money every night, and the two partners blame each other.","predicament":"Distrustful partners stare at a fortune they cannot reach without getting caught, and blame each other for it."},
{"chunk":35,"story":2,"summary":"The boy proposes the man fake an accident to get quartered aft; the man refuses and secretly flatters the officer, asking to buy his mattress as a keepsake.","predicament":"A man wants something a superior owns without revealing why, and tries flattery to get it."},
{"chunk":36,"story":2,"summary":"The officer plays up the mattress's value and the sailor, afraid to seem eager, settles at two pounds, to be handed over ashore.","predicament":"A buyer who cannot reveal why he wants something is made to pay more by a seller who senses his eagerness."},
{"chunk":37,"story":2,"summary":"The sailor now plans to cut the boy out and split with the narrator alone, but the suspicious boy shadows him all the way into port.","predicament":"A man who wants to cheat his partner out of a shared prize is watched too closely to slip away."},
{"chunk":38,"story":2,"summary":"The officer delays the hand-over with a long speech until the boy arrives, sees the sack, and refuses to let them leave without his share.","predicament":"A man trying to slip away with a shared prize is held up until the partner he meant to cheat catches him."},
{"chunk":39,"story":2,"summary":"The boy stays on deck while the men cut the mattress open below; it is empty, and when they come up the boy has vanished.","predicament":"A man who schemed to cheat a partner finds the prize gone and realises he may have been cheated himself."},
{"chunk":40,"story":2,"summary":"The boy never returns, not even for his pay, and the officer smilingly asks the sailor how he slept.","predicament":"A schemer who was outwitted must stand and smile at the people who got the better of him."}
]