[ {"chunk": 99, "story": 9, "summary": "The widow's pretty daughter joins the new plush offices at five dollars a week; the swindler courts her under cover of guardianship, and the earnest young clerk falls for her.", "predicament": "A bright young employee finds her employer's fatherly interest turning into something else, while a serious colleague falls for her."}, {"chunk": 100, "story": 9, "summary": "The circular to members reprints a big rival's glowing annual report under a tiny heading so readers take it for their own order's, and offers stock at twenty-five dollars.", "predicament": "A promoter borrows a successful rival's figures and dresses them up so small savers will think the numbers are his own."}, {"chunk": 101, "story": 9, "summary": "The prospectus promises charity and profit together; the operator is proud of it, but the clerk says anyone fooled by such buncombe is too big a sucker to have money.", "predicament": "An employee objects that the sales pitch is plainly dishonest and asks why the business cannot simply tell the truth."}, {"chunk": 102, "story": 9, "summary": "The swindler smoothly tells the clerk the stock money may truly grow the order, then privately proposes buying out the troublesome clerk.", "predicament": "A promoter soothes a doubting employee with lofty talk, then privately asks his partner how to buy the doubter out."}, {"chunk": 103, "story": 9, "summary": "Shown the swindler's grand car from the window, the clerk is reassured and agrees to sell at par; a lavish dinner removes his last doubts.", "predicament": "A doubtful employee is shown his employer's grand car and lavish table, and decides such a man must really have money."}, {"chunk": 104, "story": 9, "summary": "The swindler takes charge of stock sales, travelling to each interested member to sell him exactly as much as he has; money pours in, and the operator, flush, even borrows from him.", "predicament": "A promoter travels to every small saver who shows interest and sells each exactly as many shares as they can afford."}, {"chunk": 105, "story": 9, "summary": "The partners sell their own stock and live like kings; the clerk warns their low rates will ruin the order, and the operator points to the hidden clauses that contradict every promise.", "predicament": "An employee warns that the business cannot keep its promises to members, and is shown the fine print that lets it break them."}, {"chunk": 106, "story": 9, "summary": "The operator says they will be out before it fails; the clerk says the old members will be left holding the bag and vows to stay and rebuild it after the crash, so he is sent on the road.", "predicament": "An employee who sees the business is crooked refuses to sell out, vowing to stay and rebuild it for the people it will fail."}, {"chunk": 107, "story": 9, "summary": "The swindler courts the girl with rewards and raises; when his partner presents the two-thousand-dollar note, he tears it up.", "predicament": "A partner who sold his share for a promise to pay watches the other tear up the promise and laugh at him."}, {"chunk": 108, "story": 9, "summary": "The girl realises her mother's money is at risk; after the swindler pinches her cheek she cries, confides in the clerk, and forbids him to confront the swindler yet.", "predicament": "An employee realises her family's savings are in the hands of a man who never pays, and quietly plans how to recover them."} ]