[
 {
  "chunk": 118,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "At lunchtime Torchy runs into a rough-looking old messenger-boy friend he trusts completely, and stops in the building's corridor to catch up on news of his old crowd.",
  "predicament": "Someone who has moved up a little stops to chat with a rough-looking friend from the bottom rung, in full view of everyone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 119,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The fussy secretary lectures Torchy that one is known by the company one keeps; Torchy mocks him and defends his friend, calling himself a mixer.",
  "predicament": "A stiff superior warns someone junior about the low company he keeps, and the junior answers with cheek."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 120,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The secretary sends Torchy with forgotten papers to the top boss at a directors' meeting in another building, warning him not to talk to suspicious characters; after delivering them Torchy hears a commotion on the floor below.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent on a quick errand with strict orders not to dawdle hears a commotion on the way back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 121,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Curious, Torchy finds a crowd of angry working women besieging the locked door of a doubtful high-interest investment firm, shouting that they have been cheated.",
  "predicament": "Someone on an errand stops to watch a crowd of small investors besieging the office of a firm they say has cheated them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 122,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Torchy eggs them on; when the door opens, a calm, smiling man in a new beard faces the mob, and Torchy recognises his first beloved boss from the vanished mining company.",
  "predicament": "Someone watching an angry crowd recognises the man they are after as a former boss he admired and trusted."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 123,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The women abuse the man as a swindler; he lets them shout themselves out, then smoothly announces an extra dividend voted by the board.",
  "predicament": "A smooth talker facing angry investors lets them vent, then offers soothing promises with nothing behind them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 124,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "When payment is promised only for next month the crowd turns violent; Torchy barges through posing as a bank messenger with the empty document case, shouting that money has arrived.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sees a former boss about to be mobbed and invents a bluff on the spot to reach him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 125,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Behind the locked partition the old boss admits he is cornered and tells Torchy to leave before he gets mixed up in it; Torchy refuses, out of gratitude for the shares he was once given.",
  "predicament": "A cornered former boss tells someone junior to save himself, and the junior insists on staying out of loyalty."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 126,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The crowd moves into the corridor to organise; Torchy urges escape by an upper elevator, the old boss agrees to walk out rather than run, and a lookout raises the alarm.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior tries to sneak a cornered former boss out of the building, and they are spotted on the way."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 127,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The crowd and a guard catch them just as the top boss steps out of his meeting; the women call Torchy one of the gang, and he swears his old boss is honest, so the top boss vouches for them and orders the crowd away.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is caught with a disgraced former boss in front of his current one, and vouches for the man's honesty."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 128,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Outside, the old boss thanks him and, reddening, says there is a mine and he is quitting the investment trade to go and see it; back at the office Torchy dodges the secretary's question about his long absence.",
  "predicament": "A disgraced former boss thanks the junior who stood by him, while the junior's present supervisor demands to know where he was."
 }
]