[
 {
  "chunk": 118,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "After a soldier's anecdote as epigraph, a vain young officer who prides himself on looking like an officer and a gentleman rides down from the hills at the very end of his leave.",
  "predicament": "A vain young man who prides himself on always looking the part cuts his return from leave as fine as he dares."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 119,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "Dressed in a new suit and white helmet, he leaves his money at the hotel and sends his servants ahead; a monsoon downpour begins.",
  "predicament": "Setting off in his finest clothes with almost no money, a man who prides himself on organisation is caught in a downpour."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 120,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "He is thrown by a pony, his helmet dissolves into pulp, and the cheap dyes of his clothes run in every colour down his body.",
  "predicament": "Mile by mile, rain and mud strip a proud man of every mark of his respectability until he looks like a vagrant."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 121,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "At the railway station, with six annas to his name and no servants, he asks for a ticket; the staff telegraph for authority and then seize him.",
  "predicament": "Filthy and penniless, a man asks for what he is owed, and those in charge take him for the fugitive they seek."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 122,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "Handcuffed after a scuffle, he is told he matches the description of a deserter; the more he explains, the less the stationmaster believes him.",
  "predicament": "Mistaken for a wanted man, someone explains at length who he really is, and the more he explains, the less anyone believes him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 123,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "At the next station he is handed to a corporal who calls him a disgrace to the service and tells him to hold his tongue.",
  "predicament": "Held by people far beneath him who take him for a fraud, a man tries to carry it off lightly and is silenced."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 124,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "His swearing wins the soldiers' admiration, but he tries to run, is knocked down with his shirt torn off, just as one of his own senior officers arrives.",
  "predicament": "Losing his temper in custody, a wrongly held man tries to run, is knocked down, and is found so by someone he knows."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 125,
  "story": 15,
  "summary": "The senior officer recognises him; he begs him not to tell the mess, then spends the summer trying to have his captors court-martialled while the story spreads through the province.",
  "predicament": "Rescued from a humiliating mistake, a man begs his superior to keep it quiet, then wastes months seeking redress as the story spreads."
 }
]