[
 {
  "chunk": 591,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Waiting in a department-store entrance for his sweetheart, Torchy is approached by a thin, shabby, well-mannered little girl who asks whether it is true she needs work papers to get a job.",
  "predicament": "Someone idly waiting in public is approached by a lost, shabby child who politely asks how she can find work."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 592,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "She is under age for work; she has no home, her English father was arrested three weeks ago, and he told her never to let herself be put in an institution.",
  "predicament": "A stranger learns a polite child is alone, her only parent jailed, and she is terrified of being put in care."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 593,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "When a store detective she fears reappears, Torchy takes her hand as if she is with him; his well-dressed sweetheart comes out and takes in the scene without scorn.",
  "predicament": "Someone shields a frightened stray child from an officious guard just as his elegant sweetheart comes out and sees them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 594,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The child explains she ran away before her landlady could send her to a home and has eaten nothing all day; the sweetheart invites her to tea.",
  "predicament": "A young woman of means meets a starving runaway child and, without fuss, invents a reason to feed her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 595,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Over tea the child says her father was head butler to an English officer until the war closed the house, and came to America for work; he is accused of stealing a large sum.",
  "predicament": "A child talks trustingly of her father, a long-serving servant abroad, now jailed here for a large theft."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 596,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The child insists her father is innocent and says he had just found a way to take her to a relative's ranch overseas; Torchy is doubtful, but the sweetheart backs the child, who then shows her battered doll.",
  "predicament": "A child innocently mentions that her ailing, jailed father had suddenly found the money for their escape abroad."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 597,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The doll went missing the night before the arrest and reappeared beside her; the sweetheart decides to take the child home despite her aunt, and orders Torchy to find the father and get him freed.",
  "predicament": "A sweetheart takes in a stray child against her guardian's views and orders her suitor to rescue the child's father."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 598,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Told not to come back until he has succeeded, Torchy goes to a reporter friend from his newspaper days, who learns the charge is grand larceny of twenty thousand dollars in cash.",
  "predicament": "Someone sent on an impossible errand by his sweetheart calls on an old friend from his earlier, humbler days."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 599,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The money belonged to a wealthy widow who backs illegal betting; the arresting detective boasts the butler is a crank, showing a packet of sawdust found in his room.",
  "predicament": "A proud investigator shows off a baffling scrap of evidence as proof his prisoner is mad, missing what it means."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 600,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Torchy gets a jail pass, reflects that the widow will not let the money go, and visits the butler, a weak-chinned, dignified man.",
  "predicament": "Someone takes on a prisoner's case knowing the wronged party is powerful and will not forgive the loss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 601,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The butler is anxious for his daughter and denies the theft, saying nothing was found on him; hearing he last saw her the night before, Torchy connects the sawdust to the doll.",
  "predicament": "Someone questioning an anxious prisoner suddenly works out where the missing money must be hidden."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 602,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Torchy warns him of fifteen years in prison and mentions the doll; the butler breaks down and agrees to any terms that get him out and take his daughter abroad.",
  "predicament": "Someone presses a stubborn prisoner by hinting he knows the secret, until the man agrees to bargain for his child's sake."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 603,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The hard-headed widow at first wants him jailed, but agrees to drop the charge and pay the passage abroad if she gets every dollar back.",
  "predicament": "Someone bargains with a hard, powerful victim to drop charges against a desperate thief in exchange for everything back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 604,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Torchy returns with the doll, which he had coaxed away from the child, and cuts it open before the angry widow to reveal the money sewn inside.",
  "predicament": "Someone produces a child's cherished toy before an angry victim and cuts it open to reveal the stolen money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 605,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The widow counts the money, forgives the butler and has the case dropped; the child, who won over the aunt through her cat, is reunited with her father, and the sweetheart kisses Torchy.",
  "predicament": "Someone who quietly rescued a stray child's father is rewarded by his sweetheart with sudden, private affection."
 }
]