[
 {
  "chunk": 94,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Torchy grumbles that the former filing clerk, now his friend, has him studying schoolbooks in his spare moments at the gate, though he sees no use in it.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is pushed by a well-meaning friend to catch up on schooling he thinks will never help him get ahead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 95,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "Torchy studies to please the friend, reciting his lessons each evening; the boss's son notices, and Torchy explains that the friend has been promoted from filing to a salaried post and credits Torchy for it.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior keeps up evening lessons mainly so as not to disappoint the friend he once helped get promoted."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 96,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The promoted friend is secretly terrified he is out of his depth; a broker's clerk fools him with an old office joke, and next evening Torchy finds him slumped, saying he has failed his first real test.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly promoted is privately sure he is out of his depth, and one early setback convinces him he has failed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 97,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The top boss, resenting the promotion, sent the friend to win a big contract from a visiting foreign official; the friend was politely turned away by a secretary and gave up.",
  "predicament": "A newly promoted person is set an impossible task by a boss who resents his rise, and gives up at the first refusal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 98,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The friend plans to resign; Torchy throws down the schoolbooks and calls him spineless, which stirs him to go that very night to try again in evening dress, with Torchy along.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior shames a discouraged friend out of resigning, and the friend resolves to try once more that very night."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 99,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "At the grand hotel the desk clerk says the official is out and receives no one; Torchy's bluff fails, but the friend refuses to leave without satisfaction.",
  "predicament": "Two people trying to reach an important visitor are stonewalled at the front desk, and one refuses to give up."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 100,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "They meet a sports columnist Torchy knows from his newspaper days, who is thrilled to find the friend, a famous former football star, and wants an article from him; the friend wants his fame forgotten.",
  "predicament": "Someone trying to be taken seriously in new work is hailed by an old acquaintance only for past glory he wants to forget."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 101,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The columnist knows the official and where he is dining with a rival group of businessmen, and offers to bring him out in exchange for the football article, which the friend agrees to write.",
  "predicament": "Someone blocked from an important visitor is offered a way in by a contact, at the price of reviving a past he wants buried."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 102,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The columnist lures the official out of the private dinner and introduces the friend as a famous athlete; the puzzled official says he has no interest in football and tries to back away.",
  "predicament": "Someone finally gets a moment with an important visitor who plainly wants to leave at once."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 103,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "The friend grabs him and walks him up and down the corridor delivering the sales pitch word-perfect, at times lifting him off his feet, while the rival hosts peer out anxiously.",
  "predicament": "Someone who was too polite to push finally seizes his one chance and will not let the important visitor go."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 104,
  "story": 7,
  "summary": "He gets the official to sign an agreement on a notepad, returns him to his hosts, and tells Torchy he has the contract.",
  "predicament": "Someone written off after one failure comes back, forces his chance, and wins the deal he was sent for."
 }
]