[ { "chunk": 8, "story": 1, "summary": "After dinner a hunting man begins a story about his lonely country property, kept by a severe retired policeman who lived there with his fourteen-year-old nephew.", "predicament": "A landowner recalls the strict old servant he trusted to guard his property, and the servant's unpromising young nephew." }, { "chunk": 9, "story": 1, "summary": "He describes the sly, ugly nephew and the old woman who came to cook, and his yearly ride out to the lodge on a gloomy October day.", "predicament": "A landowner arrives for his yearly stay at a remote property, where an old servant and a disliked boy wait." }, { "chunk": 10, "story": 1, "summary": "The same faithful greetings as every year, though the old cook has grown bent and frail; the keeper is plainly troubled but refuses to say why before dinner.", "predicament": "A loyal old servant is plainly troubled by something and cannot bring himself to tell his employer about it." }, { "chunk": 11, "story": 1, "summary": "The keeper confesses that after months of hunting a poacher he followed his own nephew and caught him poaching on his master's land.", "predicament": "A loyal servant must confess to his employer that his own young relative has been stealing from him." }, { "chunk": 12, "story": 1, "summary": "The keeper says he beat the boy and could not turn out the last of his blood; the master approves, and the keeper thrashes the nephew before him as an example.", "predicament": "A servant torn between his employer and his only young relative punishes the boy in front of the employer to prove his loyalty." }, { "chunk": 13, "story": 1, "summary": "The boy mutters an apology and vanishes; at midnight the master wakes to find the straw-packed house deliberately set on fire, escapes through the window and fires his gun to wake the keeper.", "predicament": "A boy shamed in front of the household takes his revenge, and a guest wakes to find the house deliberately set alight." }, { "chunk": 14, "story": 1, "summary": "The keeper jumps clear; they realise the nephew set the fire and that the old cook has burned to death, and then the nephew bolts out of the stable.", "predicament": "A man realises the young relative he punished has burned the house in revenge, killing an innocent old woman." }, { "chunk": 15, "story": 1, "summary": "In blind rage the keeper snatches up the gun and shoots the fleeing boy dead; he is acquitted at trial and leaves the country for good.", "predicament": "A man who killed his own young relative in a moment's rage must live with it after the law lets him go." } ]