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{"chunk":41,"story":3,"summary":"A rich man soon to marry sits with his idle, indebted cousin, who needles him about his wealth and his fiancée's goodness.","predicament":"A man about to marry is needled by a dependent relative who hints at something to his discredit."},
{"chunk":42,"story":3,"summary":"The cousin hints that the fiancée would drop him if she knew what he really was, then says he needs fifteen hundred pounds within a fortnight or faces prison.","predicament":"A man in desperate debt makes veiled hints to the relative he hopes will pay it."},
{"chunk":43,"story":3,"summary":"Refused, the cousin offers to sell compromising old letters, threatening to sell them to a rival suitor; the rich man seizes him and is stopped only by a servant entering.","predicament":"A man is blackmailed by a relative with old letters that could cost him the person he loves."},
{"chunk":44,"story":3,"summary":"The cousin walks out into the park to let him think it over; the rich man follows, and later tells his mother the cousin has gone for good after a quarrel over money.","predicament":"A man who has done something terrible in anger must cover for a relative's sudden disappearance."},
{"chunk":45,"story":3,"summary":"The man walks with his fiancée to a disused well in the park, her favourite spot; he urges her not to sit on its edge.","predicament":"A man with a guilty secret must keep calm while someone he loves insists on lingering right at the spot."},
{"chunk":46,"story":3,"summary":"She asks about the missing cousin and defends him; the man bursts out that the cousin was a blackmailer, a liar and a cur.","predicament":"A man hiding a crime hears it discussed innocently and betrays his feelings with an outburst."},
{"chunk":47,"story":3,"summary":"She is startled by a whisper she imagines saying 'Jem, help me out'; shaken, he tries to take her indoors, but she insists on staying.","predicament":"A guilty man tries to hurry someone away from the scene of his crime, and she insists on staying."},
{"chunk":48,"story":3,"summary":"She drops her mother's diamond bracelet down the well and wants it drained; he looks at her in horror, then covers it by saying he feared she was falling.","predicament":"A man hiding something learns it may be discovered by an innocent accident, and must not show his fear."},
{"chunk":49,"story":3,"summary":"He promises to recover the bracelet himself by morning and makes her swear to tell no one; his mother suggests filling the well in.","predicament":"A man must retrieve something from where his secret lies before anyone else goes looking."},
{"chunk":50,"story":3,"summary":"At night he secretly fishes the well with a line and hook, and dredges up keys instead of the bracelet.","predicament":"A man secretly searching where his crime lies keeps pulling up reminders of it."},
{"chunk":51,"story":3,"summary":"The hook snags; he gives up, spends a sleepless night, and at dawn meets his grooms, whom he has ordered to lower him into the well.","predicament":"A man who has failed to fix things quietly must now involve others while still keeping his secret."},
{"chunk":52,"story":3,"summary":"His groom offers to go down instead, since the master looks ill; he refuses curtly and starts to test the air with a candle.","predicament":"A man hiding something is offered help he cannot accept without being found out."},
{"chunk":53,"story":3,"summary":"The candle is lost; he stops the groom fetching another, strips, and sits a long time on the well's edge before going down.","predicament":"A man who must face the thing he did alone gathers his nerve while others watch and wonder."},
{"chunk":54,"story":3,"summary":"Below, something drags at the rope; the grooms haul up the dead cousin's face with their master behind it, let go in horror, and both fall back into the water.","predicament":"A man who hid a crime is dragged down by it at the moment he tries to undo its consequences."}
]