[
 {"chunk": 0, "story": 0,
  "summary": "A lavishly dressed stranger splashes two plain townsmen with mud as his cab pulls up, and sweeps into the best hotel without a glance at them.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer with nothing behind him makes a grand entrance, counting on his fine front to open every door in town."},
 {"chunk": 1, "story": 0,
  "summary": "He takes a suite though he has under a hundred dollars and no idea where more will come from, and meets an old confederate in the hallway.",
  "predicament": "A man with almost nothing in his pocket takes the finest rooms, trusting his confident bearing to carry him until money turns up."},
 {"chunk": 2, "story": 0,
  "summary": "Over dinner plans, the confederate sulks that he came to fleece a local mark and has been made a fool of himself.",
  "predicament": "A swindler who came to fleece a mark confesses to a fellow schemer that the mark was far too careful to be fooled."},
 {"chunk": 3, "story": 0,
  "summary": "The confederate warns him the town is impossible to swindle; he says he smells soft money and admits he walked away from his last company leaving the stockholders ruined.",
  "predicament": "A promoter fresh from ruining one set of investors is warned off a cautious town and decides it will suit him fine."},
 {"chunk": 4, "story": 0,
  "summary": "He insists he only deals in lawful propositions; they joke about his wife eating up her diamonds, and the confederate vows to go home where money comes to him.",
  "predicament": "A promoter insists all his dealings stay within the law while boasting of the fortunes his past ventures cost other people."},
 {"chunk": 5, "story": 0,
  "summary": "Looking at the carpet, he invents on the spot a cloth-covered tack, saying any patent will do because the company can fight over it after he has gone.",
  "predicament": "A promoter invents a trivial product on the spot, planning to sell shares in it and leave before anyone tests it."},
 {"chunk": 6, "story": 0,
  "summary": "The confederate describes the mark who beat him: a careful clerk with five thousand dollars saved, who demanded proof that the mine existed.",
  "predicament": "A schemer learns that the careful mark who beat his partner has savings and will only trust what he can see."},
 {"chunk": 7, "story": 0,
  "summary": "He resolves to take the mark himself with a 'legitimate business proposition' and arranges for the confederate's sham company addresses to vouch for him.",
  "predicament": "A promoter lines up a string of sham company addresses to vouch for him before approaching a cautious mark."}
]