[
 {
  "chunk": 15,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Torchy is now the gate boy at a big trust, screening visitors for the fussy private secretary; he got the job because the vice-president, passing through the applicant line-up, pointed at his red hair and said 'take that one'.",
  "predicament": "Someone gets taken on over a supervisor's head because the big boss picked him out of the line on a whim."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 16,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The secretary had wanted a meek, polite boy and resents Torchy from the start; Torchy sizes him up as a small-minded snob and decides to needle him for fun.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer imposed on a supervisor by the top boss is resented at once, and decides to needle him for sport."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 17,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The secretary tries to make him drop his nickname and lectures him on how to behave when the boss's son returns; Torchy mocks him and at first mistakes the son for someone important to the business.",
  "predicament": "A fussy supervisor tries to remake a cheeky newcomer's manners and coaches him to impress the boss's heir."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 18,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Torchy sees the secretary is currying favour with the heir to protect his own job; ordered to let no one through the gate, he trips up a confident young man who tries to walk straight in.",
  "predicament": "Someone told to let nobody past blocks a confident stranger who walks in as if he owns the place."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 19,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The stranger says he is the boss's son; Torchy refuses to believe it until the horrified secretary confirms it, then spends an hour telling Torchy he is as good as fired, which Torchy shrugs off.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior turns away the boss's own heir by mistake, and a gloating supervisor promises he will be fired for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 20,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Summoned to the heir's office for judgement, Torchy offers to resign, jokes his way through the questions, and says he is ambitious enough to wait for a bank president to adopt him.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior called in to be fired meets the offended boss's heir with jokes instead of apologies."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 21,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The heir decides to keep him, saying his cheek is useful, and after long thought picks him for an important personal errand: fetch a package from an express office across the river without being arrested.",
  "predicament": "The boss's heir forgives a cheeky junior's blunder and instead trusts him with a delicate private errand."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 22,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The heir explains that at his club he was teased into a large bet that he could shoot a deer with an antique flintlock, though he knew nothing about hunting.",
  "predicament": "Someone important was goaded by his friends into a boastful bet he had no idea how to win."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 23,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "He learned to shoot in the woods, killed a deer out of season, and shipped it under a false name; his friends tipped off the game wardens, who tracked the parcel with dogs.",
  "predicament": "A man who has quietly won a bet finds his mocking friends have tipped off the authorities to spoil it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 24,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The deer is under a warden's guard, and unless it reaches the club by six the heir loses the bet and faces months of jokes; Torchy takes expense money, and teases the secretary on his way out.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is handed an impossible private errand by the boss's heir with a deadline only hours away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 25,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "At the express office Torchy finds the warden is an unbribable, watchful officer sitting right beside the parcel, and nearly gives up.",
  "predicament": "Someone sent to recover something finds it guarded by an official who cannot be talked round or bought."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 26,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Meeting an old messenger-boy friend, Torchy telephones the heir for the name of the likely informer, then has the friend deliver a fake message calling the warden to the telephone.",
  "predicament": "Someone stuck gets an old friend from the bottom rung to help him lure a guard away with a fake message."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 27,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "While the warden is away Torchy claims the parcel, catches the ferry just ahead of him, and delivers the deer to the club; next day the heir praises him openly in front of the secretary.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior pulls off a risky private favour for the boss's heir and is praised in front of the supervisor who wanted him out."
 }
]