[
 {
  "chunk": 354,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "A humble, slow-spoken foreigner asks to see Mr. Robert; Torchy, feet on the desk, mocks him, assumes he is a peddler, and tells him to leave, but the man stubbornly keeps repeating his request.",
  "predicament": "Someone minding the door sneers at a humble stranger asking for the boss's relative and tries to send him away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 355,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The head clerk orders the man thrown out; the man silently weeps, so the clerk hands him to Torchy, who learns his unpronounceable name and that he was Mr. Robert's waiter at his club.",
  "predicament": "A supervisor orders a humble visitor turned away, then flinches at his distress and dumps the problem on someone junior."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 356,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The waiter explains that he took leave to go home, was promised his job back, but found it given to the chef's cousin; he has also spent the savings he needed to buy into his sweetheart's father's business.",
  "predicament": "A humble worker who was promised his place back returns to find it given to an insider's relative."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 357,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "Torchy lets him wait on the bench; the head clerk sneers that waiters are the spineless scum of mankind, and Torchy mocks his snobbery.",
  "predicament": "A snobbish supervisor sneers at a humble worker waiting in the lobby, and someone junior mocks him for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 358,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "Called into Mr. Robert's office, Torchy finds his friend, a former junior now an assistant manager married to a senator's daughter, back from Greece where he joined the war effort on a whim.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is pleased to see a friend he once helped now returned as a rising star with a tale to tell."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 359,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The friend rebuilt a war-damaged railway for the Greek army and came back with a huge steel contract for the firm, and a celebratory directors' banquet is planned in his honour.",
  "predicament": "Someone who once needed help from the bottom rungs returns with a triumph that wins him a banquet from the directors."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 360,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "Torchy lingers to listen as the friend describes the wrecked railway and how he wandered off alone toward the front, got lost at night, and slept in a sheep pen.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior lingers uninvited in a superior's room so he can hear a visitor's exciting story."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 361,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "At dawn the friend came upon a lone soldier manning a machine gun on a hill, his comrades all killed or wounded, who calmly drove back an infantry charge while the friend lay flat.",
  "predicament": "A visitor recalls finding an unknown soldier holding a position alone after everyone else was gone, calmly doing his duty."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 362,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The friend never learned the soldier's name or fate; Mr. Robert notices Torchy eavesdropping, and Torchy uses the moment to mention the waiter, but Mr. Robert puts him off and sends him out.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior caught eavesdropping on his superior quickly uses the moment to plead for a humble visitor, and is brushed off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 363,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "Torchy retells the war story to the head clerk, who gushes about the nameless hero; then Mr. Robert and the friend come out discussing the banquet.",
  "predicament": "A snobbish supervisor gushes about an unknown hero, never suspecting whom he has just been sneering at."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 364,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The waiter stubbornly blocks Mr. Robert's path despite Torchy's warnings; the friend stares at him and recognises him as the lone machine-gunner on the hill.",
  "predicament": "A humble visitor stubbornly blocks the way of important men, and one of them recognises him as someone remarkable."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 365,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "The waiter shyly admits he held the hill until the army arrived, was discharged, and has now lost his job; the friend is outraged at such ingratitude, and Mr. Robert takes the waiter into his office.",
  "predicament": "A modest man who did something heroic is found jobless and ignored, and his powerful admirer demands something be done."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 366,
  "story": 27,
  "summary": "Torchy rubs it in to the snobbish head clerk; the waiter serves as head waiter at the banquet where he is toasted, and Mr. Robert buys him a half share in a florist's shop so he can marry his sweetheart.",
  "predicament": "A snobbish supervisor is confronted with proof that the humble worker he sneered at is the hero he admired."
 }
]