[
 {
  "chunk": 231,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "After an incantation as epigraph, the narrator tells the history of a tiny silver box holding a carved fish, a love-charm that works only if it has been stolen.",
  "predicament": "A charm said to win anyone's love works only if it is stolen, and ruins whoever merely buys or finds it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 232,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "Unless stolen it turns on its owner within three years; a young official bought it as a curiosity without knowing, and a man who recognised it said nothing.",
  "predicament": "A man recognises a dangerous object in a colleague's collection and says nothing, knowing any share in it is risky."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 233,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "A small, disliked, worthless officer is blindly infatuated with a good, tall young woman who looks on him as vermin; the whole station laughs.",
  "predicament": "A small, disliked man is hopelessly infatuated with someone who despises him, and the whole community laughs at his devotion."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 234,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The collector grumbles at the club about his run of bad luck; the man who knew tells him the charm's story half in jest; the infatuated officer, lunching unseen beyond the arch, hears every word.",
  "predicament": "Grumbling about a run of bad luck, a man hears a half-joking explanation, while a desperate rival overhears every word."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 235,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The infatuated officer calls while the collector is out and steals the box; three days later the young woman astonishes everyone by accepting him.",
  "predicament": "A desperate suitor steals a colleague's prized possession, and within days the woman who despised him accepts his proposal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 236,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The man who knew persuades the collector, whose luck has turned, to burgle the suitor's hotel room during a dance; they find the box under his papers.",
  "predicament": "Convinced a rival won by theft, two men decide to search his belongings, knowing that if they are wrong they are the thieves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 237,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The collector takes it back and calls the suitor a thief; the young woman breaks off the engagement and he leaves; the charm is hidden on a pony's necklace.",
  "predicament": "With the stolen thing recovered, the thief is named in private, his engagement collapses, and he quietly takes himself elsewhere."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 238,
  "story": 28,
  "summary": "The narrator challenges the doubting reader to keep such a box three years, or better, steal it and be sorry.",
  "predicament": "Anyone who comes upon such a thing must choose between keeping it honestly and stealing it, and either may ruin them."
 }
]