[
 {
  "chunk": 140,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Torchy publicly accuses his nosy landlady's husband of borrowing his good suit without asking; the landlady throws a fit, and a few days later he comes home to find his things in the hall and a new lodger in his room.",
  "predicament": "Someone at the bottom calls out a petty wrong against him in public and finds himself thrown out of his lodgings for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 141,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Almost broke, having banked his savings on his friend's advice, Torchy goes to find the friend for a loan; passing a quiet respectable house he is squirted with water and lies in wait in the vestibule.",
  "predicament": "Someone homeless and nearly broke is made the butt of a prank, and is in no mood to let it pass."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 142,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He forces his way in and chases a spoiled twelve-year-old with a squirt gun into the parlour, where the boy hides behind a heavy old lady who mildly tells Torchy not to speak ill of the child.",
  "predicament": "Someone chasing a spoiled child who wronged him follows him right into a wealthy home, where the child hides behind an indulgent elder."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 143,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The old lady turns out to be tied to her chair by the boy, who has been squirting her too; Torchy chases the boy down and is soaking him with his own gun when two more women walk in.",
  "predicament": "Someone disciplining a spoiled rich child who has been tormenting his own elders is caught in the act by the family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 144,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The boy's mother screams he is being killed and demands the police; Torchy bluffs that his uncle is a police captain and threatens a counter-complaint.",
  "predicament": "Someone caught punishing a rich family's child faces arrest and bluffs about powerful connections he does not have."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 145,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The boy's shrewd grandmother refuses to call the police without facts, while the boy tells ever-worse lies; the mother, insulted that the grandmother won't take her son's side, storms off with him.",
  "predicament": "A clear-eyed elder refuses to condemn an intruder on a spoiled child's word, and a family quarrel erupts over it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 146,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The grandmother gets the tied-up aunt's account of the boy's mischief, then asks Torchy for his side; he says he would do the same again and admits the police uncle was a bluff.",
  "predicament": "Someone questioned by a sharp elder refuses to apologise and admits his earlier bluff outright."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 147,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She questions him and learns he is an orphan with no lodging who works at the trust; she lets him fetch his bags alone to see if he will run, and he comes back, saying he trusted her to be fair.",
  "predicament": "A shrewd elder gives a suspicious stranger an easy chance to run away, to see whether he comes back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 148,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Pleased, the grandmother, a widow, invites him to dinner over her pious sister's protests and lets him wash up in her absent son's rooms, kept unchanged for twenty years.",
  "predicament": "Someone homeless who passed a character test is invited into a wealthy elder's home and given a lost son's rooms."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 149,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Left unwatched among valuables, Torchy enjoys a fine dinner, blunders only over grace, and finds the grandmother a lively free-thinker who scorns churches, charity and society.",
  "predicament": "Someone from the bottom dines at a wealthy table and finds the old hostess livelier and less stuffy than he expected."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 150,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She says she collects unbelievers of every kind for dinner-table argument and laughs at his irreverence; he tells her he is homeless, and next day learns from the boss's son that she is the top boss's cousin.",
  "predicament": "Someone at the bottom learns the eccentric elder who took him in is related to the man at the top of his firm."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 151,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The boss's son already knows of the incident; Torchy tells him he won the argument and is now staying with the old lady as a trial boarder, leaving the son open-mouthed.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior surprises the boss by revealing that the boss's own relative has taken him in as a lodger."
 }
]