[
 {
  "chunk": 27,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "After a proverb, the narrator introduces a policeman who studies the country's hidden life, and the one master of disguise he models himself on, who is never rewarded for it.",
  "predicament": "A man who knows the ground better than anyone is distrusted by his own side, and his rare skill earns him no advancement."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 28,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The policeman spends seven years learning the underworld, its dances, cant and secret societies, and respectable people write him off as odd.",
  "predicament": "A man who masters what his superiors think beneath notice is written off as odd, and his hard-won knowledge counts for nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 29,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He solves a great murder case in disguise, but it does him no good because it shows up his seniors' incapacity.",
  "predicament": "A junior who solves what his seniors could not is resented for showing up their failure, and gains nothing by it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 30,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He falls in love, but her parents refuse a man from the worst-paid department with strange ways; he takes leave and hires on in disguise as her groom.",
  "predicament": "Refused a woman's hand by parents who scorn his poor prospects, a man takes a humble place in their household to stay near her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 31,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The mother praises her paragon groom; he must endure being slanged by men he outranks, even one he recruited, and watch others flirt with her.",
  "predicament": "Disguised far below his real place, a man must swallow insults from people he outranks and watch others flirt with the woman he loves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 32,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He learns the underside of society from the bottom and aches on nights of music he cannot join.",
  "predicament": "Living at the bottom of the household, a man learns what the people above him never see, and longs for the life he left."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 33,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "A distinguished old man flirts offensively with her; the disguised lover seizes his bridle and threatens him, giving himself away.",
  "predicament": "A powerful older man presses unwelcome attentions on the woman you love, and your disguise depends on holding your tongue."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 34,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The old man, once he understands, roars with laughter, admits he deserved a thrashing, and offers to talk the title-loving father round.",
  "predicament": "Exposed while defending a woman, a man turns the powerful person he just threatened into an ally against her disapproving parents."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 35,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "With the great man's weight behind him, the lover borrows clothes and wins the parents' consent within minutes.",
  "predicament": "A powerful patron's word wins over parents who refused a suitor on his own merits, and their consent comes almost at once."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 36,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "They marry on condition he drops his old ways for departmental routine that pays and leads upward; he keeps his word, at a cost.",
  "predicament": "A man wins his marriage on condition that he gives up the unconventional work he loves for safe routine that leads upward."
 }
]