[
 {
  "chunk": 382,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "An urgent message on a big contract may come in after hours just as Mr. Robert has a billiards match at his club; he asks Torchy to stay late, wait for the coded message, and bring it over.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative would rather keep a social engagement than wait for urgent business, so he has someone junior stay late."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 383,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "Leaving the club with Mr. Robert's reply, Torchy is followed by a ragged, drink-smelling beggar who claims to be an old friend of 'Bob Ellins' and knows the club doorman's name.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior on an errand is accosted by a ragged stranger who claims to be an old friend of the boss's relative."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 384,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "The beggar says he is too ashamed to face Mr. Robert himself and asks Torchy for five dollars, then two, then fifty cents, giving a name to pass on; Torchy stalls and goes to send the message while the man waits.",
  "predicament": "A down-and-out stranger begs someone junior for money on the strength of a friendship with the boss's relative."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 385,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "Unsure whether to believe him, Torchy phones Mr. Robert, who is shocked that his friend should be begging and says he will come at once, telling Torchy to hold the man and say nothing.",
  "predicament": "Unsure whether a beggar's claim of knowing the boss's relative is true, someone junior checks with the relative before paying."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 386,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "The man is slumped half-dead against a railing; Mr. Robert inspects him and recognises not his friend but a hated former acquaintance who had been passing himself off under the friend's name.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative hurries to help an old friend in trouble and finds instead an old enemy using the friend's name."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 387,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "Enraged, Mr. Robert shakes the man until he collapses, then is ashamed; the wretch whimpers that he is dying and begs to be helped to die clean and decently dressed.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative loses his temper with a disgraced former friend, then finds the man broken and begging for mercy."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 388,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "The man says drink, a bad heart and starvation are killing him; they feed him hot milk and take him to a Turkish bath, and Torchy insists on staying as a witness in case he dies.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior insists on staying beside the boss's relative through an ugly personal affair in case a witness is needed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 389,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "Mr. Robert gives Torchy money to get the man shaved and dressed in an old evening suit; cleaned up and deciding not to die after all, the man asks to talk, and Mr. Robert has Torchy sit in as witness.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is trusted with money and an awkward personal errand, then kept in the room as a witness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 390,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "Transformed by the clothes, the man lounges at the club smoking Mr. Robert's cigarettes; Mr. Robert says he has not forgiven him for jilting a friend's sister at the altar to run off with an adventuress.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative, having rescued a disgraced acquaintance, confronts him about the cruel betrayal that got him cast out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 391,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "The man coolly admits he is a cad, says everyone knew the bride was too good for him, and says the adventuress used him as prey but he would still go back to her.",
  "predicament": "A disgraced man admits his betrayal without shame and says the people who pushed the match knew what he was."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 392,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "He recounts how he ran through an inheritance, was abandoned by the adventuress in Paris and cut off by his father, then worked as a stoker, pot-scrubber and steward among the poorest men on the world's docks.",
  "predicament": "A man born to privilege describes how he sank to the bottom of the heap, scrabbling for coins with the poorest."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 393,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "He mocks respectability and says he has friends in the bread line; he refuses to work, and when shown the door he instead asks for champagne and caviar, which Mr. Robert orders.",
  "predicament": "A disgraced acquaintance refuses honest work and presses the man who rescued him for luxuries, and gets them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 394,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "When Mr. Robert threatens to throw him out, the man says that now he is dressed as a gentleman he could make a public scandal, openly threatening blackmail, but adds that he has a proposal.",
  "predicament": "A man who has been helped turns the help into leverage, threatening his benefactor with a public scandal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 395,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "He proposes going to a fellow exile who runs a remote banana plantation abroad and would keep him; Mr. Robert eagerly asks when a ship sails and has Torchy call a cab.",
  "predicament": "A disgraced man offers to disappear abroad for good if his benefactor pays the fare, and the benefactor jumps at it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 396,
  "story": 29,
  "summary": "The man asks for clothes too; next morning Mr. Robert tells Torchy he locked him in his cabin and bribed a steward to keep him there until the ship was well out, and swears to burn any more old dress suits.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative makes sure a blackmailer really leaves, then admits to someone junior how the episode shook him."
 }
]