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{"chunk":688,"story":78,"summary":"The senior partner of a great western dry-goods store sends his junior east to buy the season's stock this year.","predicament":"Someone is sent in another's place on an errand far from home."},
{"chunk":689,"story":78,"summary":"The wholesaler greets the buyer, predicts his order from the rainfall, and tells his son to show him the town.","predicament":"Someone new to a place is entertained by people who want their business."},
{"chunk":690,"story":78,"summary":"Unimpressed by the city's lights, the buyer is struck motionless when the firm's best model comes to show the gowns.","predicament":"Someone indifferent to everything around them is stopped dead by one person."},
{"chunk":691,"story":78,"summary":"She models gown after gown with a tired contempt, and the wholesaler offers her as company for dinner.","predicament":"Someone's employer offers their time to a customer as part of the sale."},
{"chunk":692,"story":78,"summary":"She agrees coolly; at dinner he takes away her cocktail and asks her first name, which she gives freezingly.","predicament":"Someone treated as a customer's entertainment meets one who treats them as a person."},
{"chunk":693,"story":78,"summary":"He tells her she will go home with him and offers a diamond; she flicks it back, sure he is like all buyers.","predicament":"Someone used to buyers' advances cannot tell a sincere proposal from the usual ones."},
{"chunk":694,"story":78,"summary":"She explains she must dine with buyers or lose her place; he says she will drink no more wine, and she weeps.","predicament":"Someone's livelihood requires accepting attentions they despise."},
{"chunk":695,"story":78,"summary":"She slaps him; a wedding ring falls from his pocket, and that night she wakes her roommate to ask where his town is.","predicament":"Someone realises the offer they rejected as insult was honest, and accepts it."},
{"chunk":696,"story":79,"summary":"A rich man's war comrade turns up penniless at his club and asks for help finding a job.","predicament":"Someone asks a richer friend from shared hardship for a start."},
{"chunk":697,"story":79,"summary":"The rich man gets him the post he asks for, a mounted policeman in the park, and soon after glimpses a beautiful woman.","predicament":"Someone helps a friend into work and then falls for a stranger."},
{"chunk":698,"story":79,"summary":"He falls in love with a young woman in a passing motor car; later, at a reunion, the policeman gets too drunk to ride.","predicament":"Someone's friend is about to lose their post through one night's excess."},
{"chunk":699,"story":79,"summary":"To save his friend's badge, the rich man puts on the uniform and rides the patrol in his place.","predicament":"Someone takes a friend's place to protect their job and good name."},
{"chunk":700,"story":79,"summary":"In the park he meets the woman he loves in a carriage; the horses bolt and he rides them down.","predicament":"Someone in a borrowed identity performs a rescue for the person they love."},
{"chunk":701,"story":79,"summary":"Thanked and asked his name, he realises giving it would disgrace his friend, and answers that it is only his duty.","predicament":"Someone must forgo the credit they want most to protect a friend's position."},
{"chunk":702,"story":79,"summary":"His friend reveals he is an earl's son whose family has found him, and that the woman, his sister, wants to meet the rescuer.","predicament":"Someone's sacrifice for a friend is repaid with the very thing they gave up."},
{"chunk":703,"story":80,"summary":"A rich heir, annoyed at being kept in town to sign papers, grumbles at the family lawyer.","predicament":"Someone who owns much is bored by the duties that come with it."},
{"chunk":704,"story":80,"summary":"The lawyer tries to raise a matter of right concerning his properties; he brushes it off and finds his club empty.","predicament":"Someone avoids hearing about the consequences of what they own."},
{"chunk":705,"story":80,"summary":"On a whim he takes a crowded boat to the amusement beach and falls into talk with a frank, pretty girl.","predicament":"Someone of standing slips among ordinary people and is charmed by one of them."},
{"chunk":706,"story":80,"summary":"She teases him, lets him join her, and tells him she trims hats and lives in a furnished room with a friend.","predicament":"Someone poor explains their plain life to a stranger without embarrassment."},
{"chunk":707,"story":80,"summary":"The crowd's vulgarity repels him until he looks at her happy face and suddenly sees the place as she does.","predicament":"Someone despising other people's pleasures sees them differently through one person's eyes."},
{"chunk":708,"story":80,"summary":"He throws himself into the amusements with her, and on the boat home he forgets his cares and repeats her name.","predicament":"Someone set apart by wealth enjoys themselves plainly for the first time."},
{"chunk":709,"story":80,"summary":"A steamer rams their boat; the life preservers prove rotten, and she laughs and holds his hand calmly.","predicament":"Someone in danger finds the safeguards meant to protect them are fraudulent."},
{"chunk":710,"story":80,"summary":"He declares his love; she says that is what they all say, and explains she meets men on boats and in the street.","predicament":"Someone learns the person they love must meet strangers in public for want of a place."},
{"chunk":711,"story":80,"summary":"She explains that where she lives there is no parlour and no room to receive anyone, so a girl must meet men outside.","predicament":"Someone's living conditions force them into risks that others judge them for."},
{"chunk":712,"story":80,"summary":"Next day he learns the houses without parlours are his own; he tells the lawyer to change them, crying it is too late.","predicament":"Someone discovers they caused the harm they deplore, too late to undo it."},
{"chunk":713,"story":81,"summary":"A wandering tramp studies each city as a poet would, finding its soul and then moving restlessly to another.","predicament":"Someone moves from place to place, understanding each and belonging to none."},
{"chunk":714,"story":81,"summary":"He has personal fancies for each city he has known: one hearty, one aloof, one chilling, each with its own figure.","predicament":"Someone judges every place by how it treated them as a stranger."},
{"chunk":715,"story":81,"summary":"He arrives in the greatest city meaning to read it like the others, and by afternoon is defeated and frightened.","predicament":"Someone confident of reading any place meets one that gives them nothing."},
{"chunk":716,"story":81,"summary":"No one looks at him or speaks to him; he longs for even the kicks and stares of the rougher cities.","predicament":"Someone would rather be mistreated than ignored."},
{"chunk":717,"story":81,"summary":"The people seem cold, conceited idols; he singles out three types: a rich old man, a cold beauty, and a jowled tough.","predicament":"Someone surrounded by strangers finds them all cold and self-absorbed."},
{"chunk":718,"story":81,"summary":"Refused alms, he is struck by a car, and opens his eyes to find those same three strangers tending him with care.","predicament":"Someone who thought a place heartless is cared for by it at their worst moment."},
{"chunk":719,"story":81,"summary":"A kindly crowd gathers and he says he feels fine; three days later he fights a patient for running down his city.","predicament":"Someone who found the heart of a place defends it against the next stranger."},
{"chunk":720,"story":82,"summary":"The vainest and cleverest member of a street gang of well-dressed robbers withdraws from it because the girl he loves asks him to.","predicament":"Someone gives up profitable wrongdoing because the person they love asks."},
{"chunk":721,"story":82,"summary":"He promises to work honestly and marry within a year, though he looks mournfully at his fine clothes.","predicament":"Someone commits to an honest life knowing it will cost them their pride."},
{"chunk":722,"story":82,"summary":"He returns to plumbing as an assistant for eight months, his clothes wearing thin, then brings her a mysterious parcel.","predicament":"Someone going straight grows shabby and wants to show they still have style."},
{"chunk":723,"story":82,"summary":"The parcel holds costly-looking sables; she is overjoyed, then looks at him steadily, doubting how he paid.","predicament":"Someone receives a gift too fine for the giver's wages and wonders where it came from."},
{"chunk":724,"story":82,"summary":"She parades them through the neighbourhood as a queen; a fair-minded detective hears of the fabulous furs and follows.","predicament":"Someone's display of a gift draws the attention of the person investigating a theft."},
{"chunk":725,"story":82,"summary":"The detective says a lady's sables vanished from a house the man worked at yesterday, and offers to check his story.","predicament":"Someone who reformed is suspected at once when something goes missing."},
{"chunk":726,"story":82,"summary":"He admits theft rather than say where he bought them; a policeman who sold furs prices them at twenty-one dollars.","predicament":"Someone would rather be thought a thief than be seen to have bought cheap."},
{"chunk":727,"story":82,"summary":"She cries that she wants only him, not furs; the real sables were found at home, and the officers let them go.","predicament":"Someone's vanity nearly ruins them, and the person they tried to impress forgives it."}
]