[
 {
  "chunk": 115,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A condemned man, due to die tomorrow, sets down a homely but terrible chain of events he does not expect anyone to believe, insisting he is not mad.",
  "predicament": "A man facing death tomorrow wants to unburden himself of a story he knows everyone will call madness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 116,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He recalls being a gentle, animal-loving boy; he married young a like-minded wife, and they kept many pets, among them a large, clever black cat she half-jokingly called a witch.",
  "predicament": "A gentle man with a loving home and a devoted companion has, as yet, no idea of what he will become."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 117,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The cat was his favourite, but drink changed his temper: he grew moody, abused his wife and his pets, and at last even the cat felt his ill-temper.",
  "predicament": "A man feels drink souring his temper, and watches himself turn cruel to those who depend on him most."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 118,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Drunk one night, when the cat bites him in fright, he is seized by a demonic fury and cuts out one of its eyes; next morning his remorse is feeble, and he drowns it in drink.",
  "predicament": "A man in a drunken rage commits a cruelty that horrifies him when sober, and drinks again to forget it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 119,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The maimed cat flees him; his grief turns to irritation, and a spirit of perverseness, the urge to do wrong because it is wrong, drives him to hang it in cold blood, weeping.",
  "predicament": "A man is driven by a perverse urge to do the very wrong he knows he must not, because he knows it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 120,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "That night his house burns down, ruining him; in the ruins a crowd gathers at the one standing wall, where the figure of a giant cat with a rope round its neck is printed in the plaster.",
  "predicament": "A man ruined by a disaster the very night of his crime finds a sign of that crime left where everyone can see."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 121,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He explains the image away as the body thrown in to wake him and pressed into fresh plaster, but cannot shake the phantom, and starts looking for a similar cat to replace it.",
  "predicament": "A man explains away an uncanny reminder of his crime, but cannot rid his mind of it, and half-regrets what he did."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 122,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "In a low tavern he finds a large black cat like the first, except for a white patch on its breast; no one owns it, it follows him home, and his wife loves it.",
  "predicament": "A guilty man finds a creature exactly like the one he destroyed, which attaches itself to him and follows him home."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 123,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He comes to loathe the cat's devotion, the more so on finding it too is missing an eye; it follows him everywhere, and only a secret dread stops him killing it.",
  "predicament": "A man is haunted by a constant companion that reminds him of his crime, and dreads it too much to strike."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 124,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The white patch slowly takes the clear shape of a gallows; he cannot rest by day or night, and wakes from nightmares with the creature's weight on his chest.",
  "predicament": "A guilty man sees the sign of his coming punishment growing clearer every day on something that will not leave him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 125,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "His goodness gone, he vents his fury on his patient wife; in the cellar the cat trips him, he swings an axe at it, she stops his arm, and he buries the axe in her head.",
  "predicament": "A man tormented beyond bearing lashes out in rage, and kills the person who tries to hold him back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 126,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "With cold deliberation he considers how to hide the body without being seen, and decides to wall it up in the cellar.",
  "predicament": "A murderer calmly weighs every way of hiding what he has done, and settles on sealing the body inside a wall."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 127,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He opens a false chimney in the damp cellar wall, props the body inside, rebuilds and replasters it so perfectly that nothing shows, and congratulates himself.",
  "predicament": "A man who has hidden a body with great care looks over his work and feels sure he is safe."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 128,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He looks for the cat to kill it, but it has vanished; he sleeps soundly for the first time, answers the few inquiries easily, and believes his future secure.",
  "predicament": "A murderer, freed at last from his tormentor, sleeps easily and believes the questions and searches are behind him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 129,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "On the fourth day the police search the house again; perfectly calm, he walks the cellar with them, and as they leave, from sheer bravado, he raps on the very wall that hides the body.",
  "predicament": "A guilty man who has fooled every searcher cannot resist a boast, and points them straight at what he has hidden."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 130,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A shriek answers from inside the wall; the police tear it down and find the decayed body with the cat sitting on its head, walled up with her.",
  "predicament": "A murderer's hidden victim is revealed by the very thing he had forgotten, crying out from inside the tomb he made."
 }
]