[
 {
  "chunk": 152,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Now boarding with the elderly widow, Torchy gets on well with her lively ways, and describes her old-fashioned, deeply pious sister, who has started including him in her prayers.",
  "predicament": "Someone taken into an elderly household finds one host lively and the other set on saving his soul."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 153,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "The pious sister starts on his moral training and asks if he swears; he says he gave it up after hearing the top boss, her cousin, swear like an artist when his gout is bad, and she is shocked.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior, chatting at home, lets slip the big boss's worst private habit to one of the boss's own relatives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 154,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Torchy tells her the boss has been swearing daily, leaving her gasping; next day the secretary solemnly summons him to the top boss, who greets him coldly.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior who gossiped about the boss is summoned, stone cold, to the boss's private office the next day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 155,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "The boss demands to know why Torchy reported his swearing to his relatives; Torchy admits it frankly, says he enjoyed shocking her, and asks to be fired, and the boss almost laughs.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior caught gossiping about the boss owns up with blunt honesty instead of lying his way out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 156,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Unable to decide whether Torchy is too fresh to keep or too sharp to lose, the boss keeps him, to the secretary's disappointment; the pious cousin then talks the overworked boss into going to a rest home run by a friend of hers.",
  "predicament": "A boss who cannot decide if a cheeky junior is too fresh to keep or too sharp to lose decides to keep him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 157,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "The boss telephones asking specifically for Torchy, not his secretary, to bring the mail, saying Torchy is responsible for his being there; Torchy travels to the remote hilltop rest home.",
  "predicament": "A boss sent away against his will asks for the junior who caused it, rather than his usual trusted aide."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 158,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Torchy finds the boss sulking on the veranda of a bleak institution among dyspeptic patients; the boss works through his mail and orders away an attendant inviting him to chapel.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior visits the boss at a place of enforced rest and finds him chafing under rules he never agreed to."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 159,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "At dinner the boss orders cocktails and wine and is offered buttermilk; the pious proprietor gently reproves him for raising his voice.",
  "predicament": "A powerful man used to having his own way runs into the rules of a place where his money buys nothing extra."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 160,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "No coffee, smoking only at set hours, no billiards and no cards; Torchy tours the dull, hushed house while the boss fumes.",
  "predicament": "A powerful man finds every comfort he asks for forbidden by a proprietor who will not bend for anyone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 161,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Told lights go out at nine forty-five, the boss orders his car for the morning and threatens to build a rowdy hotel next door; the proprietor calmly points to the clock.",
  "predicament": "A powerful man threatens to crush a small proprietor who will not bend the rules, and gets only a calm reminder of the time."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 162,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Unable to sleep in the silence, Torchy looks out of his window and sees the proprietor in the basement playing poker with his staff and drinking from a decanter.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior who cannot sleep catches the strict keeper of the house secretly breaking his own rules."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 163,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Torchy leads the boss to the game; the boss joins it, forgives Torchy, and leaves next morning cheerful, tearing up the proprietor's gambling debts.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior brings the boss evidence of a rule-maker's hypocrisy, and is forgiven his own earlier indiscretion for it."
 }
]