[
 {
  "chunk": 646,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "Soon after his elderly aunt's elopement, a stranger in a seedy raincoat with a flashy cane calls at the office asking for Torchy by his nickname, and settles in with a charming smile.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly settled in authority is visited by a shabby-genteel stranger who asks for him by his old childhood nickname."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 647,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The stranger, admiring the office, says he has a proposition in municipal franchises; Torchy says the firm does not deal in such things.",
  "predicament": "A smooth stranger who assumes the newly promoted man handles big deals tries to pitch him a speculative scheme."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 648,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The man describes himself as a legitimate promoter who does the hard work of setting up transport franchises in southern towns.",
  "predicament": "A smooth talker insists his speculative schemes are the genuine kind, unlike those of all the other hawkers."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 649,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "He complains no one with money will see him and asks Torchy simply to introduce him to wealthy men; Torchy asks who told him he was such an easy mark.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly placed near the powerful is asked by a stranger to lend his name as an introduction to rich men."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 650,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The man says the woman who raised Torchy as a child gave his address, and reveals he is the uncle who left four-year-old Torchy in her care.",
  "predicament": "A foundling risen from nothing is told by a shabby stranger that he is the relative who abandoned him as a child."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 651,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "He explains he was broke and had to rush south for a business boom, promising to send for the boy; the boom collapsed and he drifted from job to job.",
  "predicament": "A drifter excuses having abandoned a small child in his care by describing a sudden chance he could not refuse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 652,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "He never came back; Torchy asks if he is really his uncle, and is unimpressed, but cannot bring himself to reject the only relative who has ever appeared.",
  "predicament": "Someone with no family is unimpressed by the relative who turns up, but cannot bring himself to turn him away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 653,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The man offers to tell Torchy about his family only after Torchy lends him two hundred dollars and introduces him to rich investors; Torchy stalls and invites him home.",
  "predicament": "A long-lost relative offers to reveal someone's family history only in exchange for a loan and useful introductions."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 654,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The woman who raised him confirms the man is the one; at home the pious aunt has packed to leave rather than live with her sister's new husband, and assumes Torchy must go too.",
  "predicament": "Someone unsure of a new-found relative comes home to find his household breaking up around him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 655,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The pious aunt sits at dinner in her hat, ready to leave; the eloped couple burst in, and the bride demands to know why her sister is dressed to go.",
  "predicament": "A disapproving sister sits waiting to walk out the moment the newly married couple she opposed come home."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 656,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The bride forbids either of them to leave and has her husband make peace by kissing the pious sister and apologising for the past; the household settles down happily together.",
  "predicament": "A newly married couple win over a disapproving relative by insisting she is needed, and making peace with a sudden kiss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 657,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "Over coffee the new husband tells how his brother disinherited his son for marrying a clever red-haired girl from the office, and how the young couple eloped to Paris.",
  "predicament": "An old man recalls how his stiff-necked brother disowned a son for marrying a girl who worked in the family office."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 658,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The feckless nephew went west chasing mining deals, taking his lively red-haired little boy away from the mother, who stayed to run their business.",
  "predicament": "An old man recalls a feckless relative who took his small child off chasing a get-rich scheme, leaving the mother behind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 659,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The nephew died suddenly, and the boy was never found; just then the doorbell rings, and Torchy, embarrassed, brings his newly found uncle into the library.",
  "predicament": "Someone embarrassed by a shabby relative must bring him into a respectable home just as an old family mystery is told."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 660,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "The new husband recognises the visitor from the voyage and demands where the lost boy was left; the visitor admits he was entrusted with him, and says Torchy is the boy.",
  "predicament": "A man posing as someone's kin is confronted by a witness from the past and must admit whose child he abandoned."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 661,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "A locket Torchy has always kept holds his mother's picture; the old man tells of her later remarriage and death in the war, the aunt comforts Torchy, and the impostor is shown out.",
  "predicament": "Someone who never knew his family learns in one evening who his parents were, and that both are dead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 662,
  "story": 48,
  "summary": "Torchy thinks he has no family left, but the old man, his nominal company president, claims him as his great-nephew, and Torchy happily accepts.",
  "predicament": "A foundling who thinks he is alone again is claimed as kin by the kindly old man who had been his nominal superior."
 }
]