[
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy describes the pompous private secretary as a loyal, small-minded long-serving clerk who makes a great show of any bigger task; one morning he orders Torchy to phone for the opening price of a speculative stock.",
  "predicament": "A long-serving, self-important underling who handles only trifles starts showing an unusual interest in a risky investment."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy assumes the secretary is only a make-believe speculator who never risks real money, and teases him with invented tips.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior teases a stiff superior about his daydreams of getting rich, assuming he would never risk real money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The secretary holds whispered meetings with a seedy tipster, then grows visibly frantic, washing his hands and drinking water, and leaves early saying he may be back late.",
  "predicament": "A normally cautious superior starts whispering with a shady adviser and then goes to pieces with nerves at his desk."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "While he is out his gentle wife and small son arrive to take him shopping; Torchy makes friends with the boy and wonders how such a man won such a wife.",
  "predicament": "While a superior is off gambling in secret, his trusting family turn up at the workplace looking for him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The boy is promised new shoes; Torchy, a poor liar, tells the wife her husband is busy with a big deal downtown, and she glows with pride.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior covers for an absent superior to his family, and the wife takes the cover story as proof of his importance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Rather than disappoint the boy, Torchy slips ten dollars of his own into an envelope as if from the father; the secretary returns sweating and wretched.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior quietly pays out of his own pocket so a superior's child will not be disappointed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 87,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The secretary sends Torchy urgently downtown with a letter and a package; on the way Torchy opens the letter and finds it orders a huge stock purchase secured with bonds from the company safe.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent on an urgent errand peeks at what he is carrying and finds his superior is gambling with the firm's property."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 88,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy finds the address is a fly-by-night brokerage; a former messenger boy now trading on the street tells him the stock is a wildcat.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior checks out the people his superior is dealing with and learns from an old acquaintance they are crooks."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 89,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy watches the stock swing all afternoon without delivering the bonds, unsure how to handle it without informing on the secretary or letting him try again.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior holding a superior's stolen stake must decide how to stop him without informing on him or letting him try again."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 90,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Back at closing time he finds the secretary collapsed at his desk beside a newspaper reporting that the stock crashed in the last quarter hour.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior finds a superior who gambled the firm's property collapsed at his desk, sure he is ruined."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 91,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Told the package was delivered on time, the secretary wails that he is ruined, begs Torchy to say he was led into it, and whines about his wife and child.",
  "predicament": "A superior caught out in wrongdoing begs someone junior to vouch that he was led astray, and pleads for his family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 92,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy names the theft outright; the secretary confesses everything, including debts for a house and a car to keep up with the neighbours, and begs on his knees not to be reported.",
  "predicament": "A superior who stole to keep up with the neighbours grovels before someone junior, begging not to be reported."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 93,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Torchy reveals he never delivered the bonds; the boss's son, who overheard everything from his office, takes the bonds back, forgives the secretary and covers his loss, which was only forty dollars.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior quietly saves a superior from ruin, and the boss, having overheard everything, chooses mercy over dismissal."
 }
]