[
 {
  "chunk": 64,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Newly married to Florrie, Jack itemises the thirty dollars the wedding cost him and haggles with himself over the priest's fee.",
  "predicament": "A newlywed who has spent more in three days than he expected counts every penny and begrudges even the customary fees."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 65,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie delays the move home to stay near her sister, and complains that Jack wouldn't pay extra for a hotel room with a bath.",
  "predicament": "A newlywed who wants to go home is kept in an expensive city by a wife who wants to stay near her family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 66,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack tallies meal costs, resents Florrie's desserts, and feels obliged to go along when his brother-in-law Allen treats them to dinner.",
  "predicament": "A tight-fisted newlywed finds that married life doubles his costs and that his in-laws' treats come with obligations."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 67,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The move home is postponed again while Jack pays rent on an empty house; he teases Florrie by mentioning Violet and Hazel and refuses to explain, and she threatens to leave for her sister's.",
  "predicament": "A newlywed paying for a home he cannot use teases his bride about old flames and finds she will not be ordered about."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 68,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack is sure Florrie is bluffing about leaving and goes out for a beer; then he accepts the Allens' invitation to stay with them, fretting that he will end up paying for outings.",
  "predicament": "A husband sure his wife's walkout is a bluff goes for a drink instead, and lets her family draw him further in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 69,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie did stay the night at her sister's; Jack went after her and told her everything, yet writes as though she came back because he ordered her to and he is master of the house.",
  "predicament": "A husband who had to go and fetch his wife back tells his friend she came home because he gave the order."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 70,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie and Marie shop for a new dress Jack thinks she doesn't need, and Jack sulks because a newspaperman gave Allen, not him, a free pass.",
  "predicament": "A husband watches his wife shop beyond their means and sulks because a colleague was offered a treat he was not."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 71,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Marie urges Jack and Florrie to rent the furnished flat across the hall at forty dollars a month; Jack flatly refuses, saying no sister-in-law will tell him where to live.",
  "predicament": "A man pressed by his wife and her sister to take an expensive home refuses flatly, sure the matter is closed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 72,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack has taken the flat after all at an even higher rent, and explains to Al why it is a bargain and was his own sensible decision.",
  "predicament": "A man who swore he would never take the expensive home has taken it, and persuades himself it was his own bargain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 73,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack asks Al to get the landlord in Bedford to cancel the lease on the house he no longer wants, hinting at a small sweetener only if necessary.",
  "predicament": "Someone paying for two homes asks a friend back home to talk his way out of a promise he made."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 74,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie rejects the flat's furniture as not good enough, and they buy imitation walnut, new chairs and a leather couch.",
  "predicament": "A couple already stretched spend more to furnish a borrowed home to the wife's taste, calling the imitations bargains."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The furnishings cost about $110, and Jack gave Florrie $200 to send her sister for a divorce; of his $1,400 he has about $800 left and says he should not worry.",
  "predicament": "A man whose savings are draining away on furnishings and his wife's family insists he is lucky and has nothing to worry about."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack won't come home for the holidays and invites Al instead, while awkwardly signalling that Florrie would rather Al's wife Bertha stayed away.",
  "predicament": "A man invites an old friend to visit while awkwardly letting it show that his wife does not want the friend's spouse along."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack blames Al for failing to get him out of the lease, and grumbles that Florrie made him pay for a second Thanksgiving dinner for the Allens.",
  "predicament": "A man blames the friend who tried to help him for failing, while his wife keeps spending his money on her relatives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 78,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Bertha has declined the invitation, feeling they are too grand for her; Jack protests that she has taken offence at nothing and admits Florrie wanted the holidays over.",
  "predicament": "A man whose old friend's wife feels snubbed insists no slight was meant, though his own wife did not want them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 79,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The landlord won't release Jack from the lease; he threatens to punch the old man, then agrees with Florrie that a star should not quarrel over small sums.",
  "predicament": "A man held to a costly promise threatens the person holding him to it, then lets his wife talk him into paying."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Christmas shopping, Allen keeps the party downtown and ends up buying Marie a hundred-dollar diamond ring she points out in a window.",
  "predicament": "A man who cannot afford it watches his brother-in-law make a showy purchase in front of both their wives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie nearly cries that she never got a ring, so Jack cashes a check and buys her a cheaper one; he keeps the wristwatch he had bought to give her later so as to outdo Allen.",
  "predicament": "A man shamed by a relative's showy gift overspends to keep up, and plans another gift just to outdo him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack sends Al an expensive glass dish and gets pincushions back; at New Year's Eve Allen orders five-dollar wine the women prefer, and Jack says he wanted to go home.",
  "predicament": "A man living beyond his means is pushed into ever costlier celebrations by the company he now keeps."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Drunk, Jack threatens to hit Marie; Allen slaps him, they fight, and all are thrown out; Jack is sick for days and claims he gave Allen a beating.",
  "predicament": "A drunk man threatens his sister-in-law, is struck by her husband, and afterwards tells the story as his own victory."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie paid the whole restaurant bill with Jack's money; soon Allen and Marie move into the Keefes' spare room, and Jack hires a maid so they can all go out every night.",
  "predicament": "A man already short of money takes his in-laws into his home and hires help so everyone can live it up."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack, who once rose at five, now sleeps till noon, has switched from beer to hard liquor and boasts of how much he can drink.",
  "predicament": "Someone who once kept early, sober habits drifts into late nights and heavy drinking, and brags about his capacity."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Allen is taking Marie on the spring trip; Jack refuses to take Florrie, calls the Allens grafters, and wonders where to leave her while he is away.",
  "predicament": "A man who cannot afford to bring his wife on a long trip insults her family and has nowhere to leave her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 87,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Al invites Florrie to stay with him and Bertha; Jack gushes with gratitude, then writes that Florrie has declined.",
  "predicament": "A friend back home generously offers to take a man's wife in, and the wife turns the offer down."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 88,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack is down to fifty dollars, behind on rent and the maid's wages; Florrie suggests he ask Comiskey to take her along as the club's guest, and he gets an advance that is already owed.",
  "predicament": "A man sinking into debt is urged by his wife to ask the boss for a favour that will obviously be refused."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 89,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack drinks while waiting, glares at Violet's fiancé, and gets a hundred-dollar advance from Comiskey, who asks pointedly whether he has been taking care of himself.",
  "predicament": "Someone in debt asks the boss for an advance on his wages, and is asked pointedly about his habits."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 90,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack asks Comiskey whether the club will pay his wife's fare; Comiskey mocks him in front of the players, and Jack does not see the joke.",
  "predicament": "Someone who asks the boss to pay for his wife's travel is openly mocked in front of colleagues and misses the joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 91,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Florrie cries, then persuades Jack that he is worth three thousand and should get Comiskey to raise the salary he already signed for.",
  "predicament": "A wife persuades her struggling husband that he is worth more and should demand a raise on a deal already signed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 92,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack writes that he has quarrelled with Comiskey and is jumping to the Federal League; he demanded a raise, was kept waiting two hours, and was told to earn it first.",
  "predicament": "Someone who demands a raise on a signed deal is told to earn it first, and storms out threatening to join a rival."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 93,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Comiskey says Jack will be lucky to get anything and mocks his threat to jump; Jack plans to demand four thousand, then writes at midnight that he is desperate and too broke even to buy a gun.",
  "predicament": "Someone who stormed out on the boss, sure a rival would pay more, is soon awake at midnight in despair."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 94,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "A pitcher who jumped shows Jack a five-thousand-dollar deal, but the Federal League's Tinker says Jack is already under contract and will not touch him.",
  "predicament": "Someone who counted on a rival outfit hiring him is told his signed agreement with his present boss rules him out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 95,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack says he will join neither side, insists Comiskey will be sorry, and wishes he had never left the minors.",
  "predicament": "Someone who has burned his bridges with both sides insists the boss will regret it, and wishes he had never climbed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 96,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack asks Allen for a hundred-dollar loan; Allen refuses because he is saving to take his wife on the trip, and Jack rages that Allen has lived on him all winter.",
  "predicament": "A man in debt asks the relative he has been supporting for a loan and is refused, the relative saving for his own wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 97,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack tells Florrie about his failures; she cries that he is no good and wishes she had never married him, and he goes out to get drunk but cannot afford to.",
  "predicament": "A husband confesses his failures to his wife, hears she regrets marrying him, and cannot even afford to drown it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 98,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack asks Al to lend him a hundred dollars; Al sends it, and Jack decides to rejoin the team after all, take Florrie, and ask Comiskey for another advance.",
  "predicament": "Someone rescued by a friend's loan immediately decides to go back to the boss he defied and ask for more money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 99,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack expects Comiskey to raise him to three thousand and hints Al can wait for his money; two days later he writes that the club and Florrie have gone to California without him and he is broke.",
  "predicament": "Someone who counted on the boss welcoming him back finds everyone gone, and is left broke and alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 100,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The secretary tells Jack he has been put on waivers and sold to Milwaukee, will get only his fare there, and cannot see the boss.",
  "predicament": "Someone who came to ask for money is told flatly by an underling that he has been let go and shipped away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 101,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "No one will lend Jack money and Gleason is away; Florrie and Marie cry, and Jack goes drinking for hours to avoid the Allens.",
  "predicament": "Someone suddenly let go finds no colleague will lend him money, and escapes his crying family by drinking for hours."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 102,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Jack comes home to find Florrie gone, leaving a note that he cannot support her and Allen paid her fare to Texas; he asks Al for twenty-five dollars to come home and refuses Milwaukee.",
  "predicament": "A man let go from his post comes home to find his wife has left him, and begs a friend for help."
 }
]