[
 {
  "chunk": 326,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Mr. Robert's married sister Marjorie arrives angry that he has stood her up to go to an artist friend's exhibition, and demands Torchy fetch him out of a sales meeting; Mr. Robert tells Torchy to make his excuses.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is caught between the boss's relative, who is stuck in a meeting, and a family member demanding he keep a promise."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 327,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Mr. Robert has to come out; to escape, he offers to buy a painting sight unseen, and when his sister says the artist needs appreciation, he appoints Torchy his 'commissioner' with full power to choose one.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative dodges a social obligation by sending someone junior in his place with authority far beyond his experience."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 328,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "In the car the sister coaches Torchy in a few stock art-critic phrases to use when nudged, and describes the artist as a gifted young man from a family that lost its money.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent to judge something he knows nothing about is coached in a few stock phrases to bluff his way through."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 329,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Torchy gathers the sister once fancied the artist before he married a poor girl whose rich uncle they now live with; the show is held in a studio carved out of the uncle's top floor.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is taken to an event in a rich household where family tensions are hinted at but not explained."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 330,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "At the crowded, arty reception the artist's showy wife makes a catty remark about the stout sister, but the artist's gentle charm soon smooths things over.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior watches a guest take a catty dig at the boss's relative, and the host quickly smooths it over."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 331,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Nobody pays Torchy much attention; he genuinely likes a river scene with a bus in it and talks about it naturally, then, nudged, rattles off his coached phrases and abruptly orders it sent to Mr. Robert.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior bluffing as an expert blurts out his canned praise at the wrong moment and closes the deal far too abruptly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 332,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The artist looks puzzled and the sister stifles giggles, so Torchy retreats downstairs to a room full of hunting trophies, where a sunburnt old man in a wheelchair rolls in and demands to know who he is.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior who has embarrassed himself retreats, only to be challenged by a cranky stranger demanding who he is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 333,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Torchy breezily tells the old man he has just bought a painting at the artist's sale upstairs; the old man, clearly angry at this news, has the butler summon the couple and blocks Torchy from leaving.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior chats freely to a stranger and realises too late he has betrayed a secret the family was keeping from him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 334,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The old man is the wife's rich invalid uncle; he confronts the couple for running a studio and sales in his house against his wishes, and the wife says painting is her husband's life's work.",
  "predicament": "A rich guardian confronts the young couple he supports after learning they have secretly defied his wishes under his roof."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 335,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The uncle says painting is not man's work and gives them a choice: stop or leave; the artist calmly chooses to leave, and the wife tells the uncle she hates him for his nagging suspicion.",
  "predicament": "A dependent told to give up his calling or lose his benefactor's support calmly chooses to walk away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 336,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The artist apologises for deceiving the uncle, says he could not live idly on his money, and prepares to leave at once with a handshake.",
  "predicament": "A dependent who deceived his benefactor owns up honestly, admits he was ungrateful, and prepares to leave with dignity."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 337,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The uncle, won over by the young man's spine, admits he has been selfish and bitter since being crippled after a lifetime of exploring, asks forgiveness, and the wife embraces him.",
  "predicament": "A harsh benefactor, faced with honest defiance, admits his bitterness and selfishness and asks the young people to forgive him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 338,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Shown the paintings, the uncle asks why the artist paints such dull scenes, and starts describing the wonderful places abroad he could take him to paint.",
  "predicament": "A reconciled benefactor looks at a dependent's work for the first time and sees how he could help it grow."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 339,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "The uncle proposes an expedition abroad with the couple, which they joyfully accept; he rewards Torchy for his loose talk with his prize leopard skin.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior whose loose tongue caused a family blow-up ends up thanked and rewarded for the reconciliation that followed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 340,
  "story": 25,
  "summary": "Next day Mr. Robert receives the painting marked as a five-hundred-dollar gift from the artist, and Torchy boasts of the family reunion he started.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent on an errand by the boss's relative returns with a far better result than anyone expected."
 }
]