[
 {"chunk": 78, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The swindler and his wife leave town without a backward thought for the people they ruined, and meet their old confederate in a grand hotel.",
  "predicament": "A drifting couple who live on other people's money leave behind every victim without a thought, and look for the next town."},
 {"chunk": 79, "story": 7,
  "summary": "He boasts of twenty-eight thousand dollars cleared, says small investors howl louder than big ones, and insists he never broke the law; the confederate warns the fence will break.",
  "predicament": "A schemer boasts that he never broke the law, and a fellow schemer warns him that one day it will catch up."},
 {"chunk": 80, "story": 7,
  "summary": "A week later the two meet again: the swindler lost everything on an inside tip to a crooked broker who vanished with it.",
  "predicament": "A swindler who thought himself too sharp to be fooled loses his whole take to a smaller cheat on a tip."},
 {"chunk": 81, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The confederate has also lost his takings to a cheating card dealer; both are broke in expensive rooms that wait to be paid for.",
  "predicament": "Two sharp operators, both cleaned out by other cheats, sit broke in costly rooms they cannot pay for."},
 {"chunk": 82, "story": 7,
  "summary": "His wife surrenders her jewels to be pawned so he can keep up a front; she says she is tired and wants to live quietly and decently.",
  "predicament": "A schemer's partner gives up her last valuables to keep up his front, and admits she longs to live honestly."},
 {"chunk": 83, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The confederate tells of a bumbling head of a small insurance society who brought its reserve fund to the city to gamble and was nearly fleeced.",
  "predicament": "A swindler learns of a small-time operator who has carried his members' reserve money to the city hoping to double it."},
 {"chunk": 84, "story": 7,
  "summary": "A member's death forced the man to take the money home; the swindler decides to buy into the insurance society and go with him.",
  "predicament": "A broke promoter hears of a small society with members' money in hand and decides to buy into it on nothing."},
 {"chunk": 85, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The bumbling operator is awed by the swindler's lordly bearing; the confederate slyly warns him to watch the big man, which only impresses him more.",
  "predicament": "A small-time schemer is dazzled by a grand stranger's bearing, and a warning to watch his wallet only impresses him more."},
 {"chunk": 86, "story": 7,
  "summary": "Over champagne the swindler presses the man into admitting his order has barely five hundred members.",
  "predicament": "A would-be partner is pressed over dinner to admit that the organisation he boasts of is tiny and struggling."},
 {"chunk": 87, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The man boasts of the clause that makes his own company the paid trustee of all members' funds; the swindler says he deserves half the business for nothing.",
  "predicament": "A small operator proudly shows how he skims his members' money, and a bigger schemer demands half the business for his skill."},
 {"chunk": 88, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The man, badly in need of cash, refuses two thousand but offers half his stock at par; the swindler says he would reorganise on a huge basis.",
  "predicament": "A needy operator haggles over selling half his business to a rich-seeming stranger who plans to inflate it enormously."},
 {"chunk": 89, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The man laughs that such stock could never pay and cites the law; the swindler says the law is always on his side and asks what he will do with the death money.",
  "predicament": "A cautious operator objects that the law and the arithmetic forbid the plan, and is told the law always protects the bold."},
 {"chunk": 90, "story": 7,
  "summary": "The swindler promises to make the widow hand the money back in gratitude, in exchange for a cut and his price; he tells his confederate he will pay out of the business, if at all.",
  "predicament": "A promoter offers to buy a half share in a business with money he will take out of that same business."}
]