[ {"chunk": 109, "story": 10, "summary": "The clerk arranges a grand convention of the order; the girl keeps her employer at bay with flippancy, then reminds him her mother's promised interest is overdue.", "predicament": "An employee who has seen through her employer smiles sweetly and reminds him of a payment he promised her family."}, {"chunk": 110, "story": 10, "summary": "He pays thirty dollars off the books; next day she asks him to buy back her mother's stock, and he tells her to bring the certificate that night.", "predicament": "An employee asks her crooked employer to buy back her family's shares, and must return alone at night to collect."}, {"chunk": 111, "story": 10, "summary": "She gets the check first; when he grabs her, she stabs him with a hatpin and tells him she stayed only until she could safely get the money back.", "predicament": "An employee who endured her employer's advances to recover her family's savings gets the money, then turns on him."}, {"chunk": 112, "story": 10, "summary": "He lies to his wife about his wounds; summoned back for the convention, he walks through a room of hostile stockholders and cows them with a smile.", "predicament": "A schemer called back to face angry small investors walks straight through them with a confident smile and they fall silent."}, {"chunk": 113, "story": 10, "summary": "His fine clothes awe the waiting men; inside, the girl is working on the books, and his partner curtly calls him in.", "predicament": "A partner who has discovered he was cheated calls the other in for a reckoning, while the evidence is being assembled next door."}, {"chunk": 114, "story": 10, "summary": "The partner accuses him of selling five of his own shares for every company share and leaving the partner holding the bag; he cheerfully admits it and says he is quitting.", "predicament": "A partner discovers the other quietly sold out first and left him holding the worthless shares, and demands his half."}, {"chunk": 115, "story": 10, "summary": "He says it was all legal and his partner has done well; the clerk bursts in with his delegation of angry members.", "predicament": "A schemer planning to walk away with the takings is confronted by the employee he dismissed, backed by the people he robbed."}, {"chunk": 116, "story": 10, "summary": "His towering presence still makes the men lower their eyes.", "predicament": "A confident schemer faces a room of angry victims, and his sheer bearing still makes them lower their eyes."}, {"chunk": 117, "story": 10, "summary": "The clerk denounces both partners, orders the operator out, and demands a check from the swindler for the forty-five thousand in his bank.", "predicament": "An employee who stayed loyal to the members exposes both his bosses and demands the stolen money be returned at once."}, {"chunk": 118, "story": 10, "summary": "Threatened by the angry men, the swindler writes the check less a thousand for travel, but insists on handing it over at his own door.", "predicament": "A cornered schemer agrees to repay his victims under threat, but bargains for travelling money and a safe place to hand it over."}, {"chunk": 119, "story": 10, "summary": "He hands over the check at his door and takes defeat with suspicious ease; the clerk has already obtained an injunction on the account but is uneasy.", "predicament": "A victorious employee holds the repayment in hand, yet feels uneasy that the schemer gave in so easily."} ]