[
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The narrator, writing on a famous new discovery, insists it was not unforeseen: a dead chemist's private diary had already hinted at it, and the discoverer surely borrowed the idea.",
  "predicament": "A commentator insists that a celebrated discovery was quietly borrowed from a dead man's notes, and says he can prove it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He dismisses a rival newspaper claim that another man made the discovery years earlier, since no real discoverer would have sat on such a prize.",
  "predicament": "Someone claims to have found a fortune years before the man now famous for it, and the claim sounds too neat to trust."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 78,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He argues the dead chemist's diary was a private notebook he wanted burned, and that the discoverer and his friends will soon get rich from the hint it gave.",
  "predicament": "A man's private notes, which he wanted destroyed, have been published and may have handed a stranger his life's secret."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 79,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He corrects mistranslations in a published account of the discoverer, and notes that he himself once met this soon-to-be-famous man.",
  "predicament": "A commentator makes much of a brief acquaintance with a man who is suddenly famous, correcting the rumours about him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "He describes the discoverer from a week's acquaintance at a hotel years ago: short, stout, friendly, nothing like the misanthrope the papers claim.",
  "predicament": "Someone who once spent a few hours with a now-famous stranger remembers nothing that hinted at the secret he carried."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Poor all his life, the discoverer was suspected of a forgery after buying property with money he would not explain; police followed him to a hidden garret and burst in.",
  "predicament": "A poor man who suddenly has money he refuses to account for is suspected of crime and followed to his hiding place."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "In a closet the police find a small furnace and crucibles; the man, caught, flings their contents on the floor, and a packet of unknown powder is found on him.",
  "predicament": "A man working in secret is caught in the act and tries to destroy the evidence of what he was doing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "Searching his bedroom, the officers find a trunk under the bed so heavy that three strong men cannot move it, full of what looks like old brass.",
  "predicament": "Searchers find something hidden under a suspect's bed that they cannot shift, and badly misjudge what it is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "They drag it out and cart the metal contemptuously to the police office, and the next day it proves to be purest gold.",
  "predicament": "Men who hold a fortune in their hands carelessly dismiss it as junk, and learn their mistake only afterwards."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "After his partial confession and release, it is plain that he can make gold from lead, but no one knows how until he chooses to tell.",
  "predicament": "A man holds a secret that could make him rich beyond measure, and the whole world is waiting for him to reveal it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 3,
  "summary": "The narrator speculates that the discovery will make gold nearly worthless, dismaying emigrants to the goldfields, and notes that lead prices have already soared.",
  "predicament": "People who staked everything on the value of one thing learn that a stranger's secret may make it worthless overnight."
 }
]