[
 {
  "chunk": 139,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, a pretty, awkward new subaltern who cannot do any of the things his smart regiment prizes is ragged to knock him into shape.",
  "predicament": "A shy newcomer who does none of the things his new company prizes is teased relentlessly to knock him into shape."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 140,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The others let him be, but the senior subaltern, soured by waiting for promotion, keeps up a coarse hoax; the newcomer calmly bets him a month's pay he will play a sell on him he will never forget.",
  "predicament": "Tormented by a senior who never knows when to stop, a quiet newcomer calmly wagers that he will turn the tables one day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 141,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The senior subaltern gets his promotion and an engagement; one night, as he boasts of his fiancee to the mess and the officers' wives, a woman's voice asks for her husband.",
  "predicament": "Just as a tormentor is boasting of his engagement before everyone, a stranger appears out of the dark claiming to be his wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 142,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A lovely, travel-worn woman throws her arms round him, calling him her darling and begging forgiveness for coming out, while everyone expects the worst.",
  "predicament": "A lovely stranger publicly claims a man as her husband, and everyone around him is ready to believe the worst."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 143,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The colonel demands an explanation; the man swears he never had a wife; in the mess she tells of their marriage and knows all about his people.",
  "predicament": "Accused in front of his superior and colleagues by a stranger who knows his whole past, a man protests that he has no wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 144,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The officers' wives have already convicted him; she names a tattoo on his shoulder, and when a major asks for her certificate she produces a paper for him to read aloud.",
  "predicament": "With his fellows already convicting him on appearances, an accused man watches his accuser produce what looks like proof."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 145,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The paper is a receipt certifying that the newcomer has paid his debts and won the wager; the woman has fled.",
  "predicament": "The damning proof turns out to be a joke by the junior he tormented, who has won their wager in full."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 146,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "They find the newcomer unlacing his stays; the mess roars, makes him president of the dramatic club, and nicknames him after the senior subaltern's wife; the narrator calls it dangerous.",
  "predicament": "A mocked newcomer who pulled off a dangerous hoax is suddenly the hero of the very company that bullied him."
 }
]