[
 {
  "chunk": 28,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Torchy takes a quiet, well-spoken filing clerk for a pampered softie and mocks him at the lunch counter; the clerk takes it with a grin.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior mocks a quiet colleague as a pampered softie, and the colleague just grins back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 29,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The clerk admits he has been on the same small salary for a year and is not satisfied, but lacks the nerve to leave; Torchy prods him to quit and try elsewhere.",
  "predicament": "A capable colleague stuck on starting pay for a year admits he lacks the nerve to leave and try elsewhere."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 30,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The clerk confides that his whole family had to pull strings to get him even this job; puzzled that such a capable man is stuck filing, Torchy watches him work and reflects that the head office boy's post suits him better.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior wonders why a capable colleague is stuck at humble work that only family strings got him into."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 31,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "After a senior manager scatters the clerk's files, the fussy secretary blames the clerk and berates him for forty minutes, threatening his job; the clerk takes it politely without a word of excuse.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is blamed at length for a mess a superior made, and takes the scolding in silence."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 32,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Torchy dares the secretary to fire him instead; later the clerk explains he is a college man with a late start, and Torchy pities him, having seen how green graduates fare.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior stands up for a bullied colleague and learns the colleague is a late starter with fine schooling but no experience."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 33,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The clerk lives alone in a cheap room, hiding from everyone he knew until he makes good, and spends his evenings studying the company's business in trade papers.",
  "predicament": "A struggling colleague hides from his old friends until he makes good, studying the business every night in case he is ever asked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 34,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "A loud, wealthy young man and his glamorous sister arrive asking for the clerk by his college nickname, clearly expecting him to be an important man in the firm.",
  "predicament": "Grand old friends turn up asking for a colleague, plainly expecting to find him high up in the organisation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 35,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "To spare the clerk embarrassment, Torchy tells the visitors he is in conference with the general manager, then smuggles him into the absent heir's private office and shows the friends in there.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior borrows the boss's empty private office so a humble colleague can receive grand visitors as if it were his own."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 36,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The friends greet the clerk as a hero and the sister kisses him; he is too flustered to speak, and at that moment the heir walks into his own office.",
  "predicament": "A bluff to impress visitors is in full swing when the real owner of the borrowed office walks in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 37,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Caught out, Torchy stalls the puzzled heir; the loud visitor turns out to know the heir and hails him, praising the clerk as a college football star.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior caught using the boss's office for a bluff stalls for time while the visitors turn out to know the boss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 38,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The visitor tells the heir the clerk runs the trust and this is his office; Torchy signals frantically behind him, and the heir decides to play along without knowing why.",
  "predicament": "A superior walks into a subordinate's bluff and must decide on the spot whether to expose it or play along."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 39,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "The heir chats football and, asked which of them works for which, says they both work for the company; the visitors leave believing the clerk is near the top, and the clerk starts to apologise.",
  "predicament": "A superior asked point-blank who works for whom gives a tactful answer that keeps a subordinate's pride intact."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 40,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Torchy takes the blame, argues he could not show a senator's son into the general office, then tells the heir the clerk's whole story and praises his grit; the heir asks what he suggests.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior called to account for a bluff takes the blame and uses the moment to urge the boss to promote a colleague."
 }
]