[
 {"chunk": 26, "story": 3, "summary": "The test works; the promoter offers the young man a quarter share of the patent as joint inventor, and they go to a lawyer friend of his.", "predicament": "A recruit is offered a quarter share in a worthless invention for one idea, and feels himself risen far above his neighbours."},
 {"chunk": 27, "story": 3, "summary": "A penniless young lawyer draws up the patent agreement and is too timid to ask for his fee, which the promoter, short of cash, does not pay.", "predicament": "A struggling young adviser does work for a rich-seeming client and is too timid to ask to be paid for it."},
 {"chunk": 28, "story": 3, "summary": "The promoter pays a shabby patent agent in cash plus a tip to hurry, leaving him full of golden hopes, then returns frowning.", "predicament": "A promoter spends his last cash showily on a small fee, leaving the man he pays full of hope in his generosity."},
 {"chunk": 29, "story": 3, "summary": "The promoter complains of a bank overdraft and orders champagne in a temper; the young man, now at ease with big sums, offers a loan and is asked for five hundred.", "predicament": "A promoter who is nearly broke plays an irritated rich man, and a dazzled partner offers to lend him cash."},
 {"chunk": 30, "story": 3, "summary": "On the way to the bank the promoter hands over a note written for a thousand instead of five hundred, and the young man reluctantly agrees to lend the larger sum.", "predicament": "A partner lending money finds the borrower has casually doubled the sum, and cannot refuse without looking small."},
 {"chunk": 31, "story": 3, "summary": "He draws out his savings; the promoter mails money to his wife, plans to buy a fine house 'as a front', and takes a costly car on trial without any deposit.", "predicament": "A schemer, with a borrowed stake in hand, orders a fine house and a costly car on credit to look like a wealthy man."},
 {"chunk": 32, "story": 3, "summary": "The young man is fully converted; the promoter warns him they must vote down any buyout offer to hold out for a higher price.", "predicament": "A promoter warns his converted partner to refuse any early offer to buy them out, binding him ever closer to the scheme."},
 {"chunk": 33, "story": 3, "summary": "The young man asks to bring friends in; the promoter proposes a tiny dummy corporation with four friends buying one share each as directors.", "predicament": "A partner asks to let his friends in on a good thing, and the promoter shows him how their small stakes can be used."},
 {"chunk": 34, "story": 3, "summary": "The promoter explains a chain of recapitalisations that will turn the young man's patent share into a hundred thousand dollars on paper.", "predicament": "A promoter walks an eager partner through a dizzying paper plan that multiplies his share without a single thing being made."}
]