[
 {
  "chunk": 168,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator introduces a bank manager who is a carefree sportsman from four to ten and a hard, shrewd man of business from ten to four.",
  "predicament": "A capable superior keeps two faces: a carefree companion after hours and a hard man of business during them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 169,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The bank's directors trust him as far as directors trust managers; his branch does complex local credit work that needs a man who knows his clients' affairs.",
  "predicament": "Trusted by distant people above him, someone in charge runs a busy business where knowing your clients' affairs is everything."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 170,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The directors send him a new accountant: arrogant, narrow, new to the country, and convinced they chose him for his brilliant talents.",
  "predicament": "A narrow, arrogant newcomer is sent to work under you, convinced that those at the top picked him for his brilliance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 171,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The two cannot get on; the accountant despises the manager's friends and way of life, lectures him on how to run the bank, and is often sick, leaving double work.",
  "predicament": "A conceited subordinate keeps lecturing his superior on how to do the job, and boasting of his friends at the top."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 172,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The accountant was foisted on the bank through a politician's favour; now a director wants his own nominee in; the doctor asks the manager if he knows how sick the man is.",
  "predicament": "A subordinate does not know he got his post through a patron's favour, and is about to lose it to someone else's favourite."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 173,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The doctor says the accountant has three months to live; that evening a letter from the directors dismisses him; the manager hides it and plans a merciful fraud.",
  "predicament": "Told a difficult subordinate is dying, the one in charge intercepts his dismissal and decides to deceive him kindly to the end."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 174,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Nightly he shows the dying man the books, invents sympathetic letters from the directors, and endures his lectures on his manager's sinful ways after double days of work.",
  "predicament": "Hiding a dying subordinate's dismissal, his superior takes on double work and patiently endures his lectures and ingratitude."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 175,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "When the new accountant arrives the manager hides him at the club, pays the sick man's salary from his own pocket, and forges letters from the directors; the strain wears him down.",
  "predicament": "A superior secretly pays a dying subordinate's salary from his own pocket, and forges praise from above to keep him hopeful."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 176,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "To keep him interested in life the manager invents a rise in salary; the accountant dies believing he would have done great things for the bank.",
  "predicament": "Kept going by forged praise and an invented promotion, a difficult subordinate dies believing that those above him valued him."
 }
]