[
 {
  "chunk": 106,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, a new viceroy brings a hard, officious private secretary who keeps drawing matters outside his province into his own hands, while the viceroy watches, amused.",
  "predicament": "A leader's officious right hand keeps pulling matters outside his remit into his own grasp, and the leader simply lets him do it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 107,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "People complain of too much secretary and too little viceroy; meanwhile a cranky inventor with a cholera fumigant arrives, convinced a medical ring is against him.",
  "predicament": "An obsessive outsider with one idea arrives convinced a clique is blocking him, and determined to reach the person at the top."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 108,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "It is hard to get a hearing with the viceroy, unless one is as grand as a pompous senior official of nearly the same name, who has come to confer.",
  "predicament": "Getting a word with the person at the top is nearly impossible, unless you are grand enough to demand an audience."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 109,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "The secretary drops a letter from the name, and the invitation to a private lunch goes to the inventor, who talks of his theory and tips his powder into the ash-tray.",
  "predicament": "A gatekeeper's slip hands an obscure enthusiast the private audience meant for someone grand, and he means to make the most of it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 110,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "He lights the powder; choking smoke fills the house, guards and ladies panic, and the viceroy, prostrate with laughter, declares it a magnificent success.",
  "predicament": "Granted one private audience with the person at the top, an outsider makes a spectacular scene, and the leader roars with laughter."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 111,
  "story": 13,
  "summary": "The viceroy laughs till he cries; the tale of the secretary's friend with the powder goes round, and at a picnic the viceroy jokes that his secretary hired an assassin, until the secretary takes the hint and resigns with a glowing reference.",
  "predicament": "The one at the top retells a comic tale until his overbearing right hand takes the hint, resigns, and leaves with glowing praise."
 }
]