[
 {"chunk": 132, "story": 12, "summary": "In a new town the swindler summons a sharp young lawyer, who, once he sees what kind of man his client is, admits the town is deep in debt.", "predicament": "A sharp young adviser, testing a new client, drops his prim manner the moment he sees the client is a fellow schemer."},
 {"chunk": 133, "story": 12, "summary": "The swindler sends him with cash to buy down his jailed confederate's bail; meanwhile he sketches copies of the inventor's machine.", "predicament": "A schemer sends cash to buy an old accomplice out of trouble, while quietly copying a trusting new partner's invention."},
 {"chunk": 134, "story": 12, "summary": "The lawyer returns with the bedraggled confederate, released for four thousand, and slides out with barely any fee.", "predicament": "A schemer ransoms an old accomplice from the law at a bargain, and short-changes the adviser who arranged it."},
 {"chunk": 135, "story": 12, "summary": "The confederate rages about four days in a cell; the swindler laughs that in these towns his kind of work is called swindling.", "predicament": "A swindler just freed after arrest is mocked by a friend who says only amateurs get caught breaking the law."},
 {"chunk": 136, "story": 12, "summary": "Recovering, the confederate refuses the swindler's offer to go into business together, saying they would only double-cross each other.", "predicament": "One schemer offers another a partnership, and is told that working together would only teach them to cheat each other."},
 {"chunk": 137, "story": 12, "summary": "The swindler says his wife barely let him have the bail money; the confederate warns this town punishes swindlers, but the swindler says his legitimate methods will be admired.", "predicament": "A schemer is warned the town jails people like him, and insists his lawful methods will win admiration instead."},
 {"chunk": 138, "story": 12, "summary": "He studies a borrowed commercial machine overnight; at the shop, the inventor's friends admire the invention and plan to force the giant to buy them out.", "predicament": "A group of thrifty friends dream of forcing a giant company to buy them out, and grow excited about getting rich."},
 {"chunk": 139, "story": 12, "summary": "A shrewd neighbour calls the absent promoter a skinner and says profits should stay at home, just as the promoter arrives in a polished cab.", "predicament": "A shrewd neighbour warns his friends the rich outsider joining them is a swindler and that any profit should stay among them."},
 {"chunk": 140, "story": 12, "summary": "The promoter charms them all and offers to back the inventor alone with all the capital needed, though he has six hundred dollars; they insist on going in themselves.", "predicament": "A penniless promoter offers to fund a venture single-handed, and the doubters rush to put in their own money instead."},
 {"chunk": 141, "story": 12, "summary": "The neighbour who called him a skinner now dotes on him, and they take him to the cellar for home-made wine.", "predicament": "A shrewd man who called a newcomer a swindler is won over by one warm handshake, and welcomes him into the circle."},
 {"chunk": 142, "story": 12, "summary": "They invite him to a church raffle to meet the local doctor, and agree among themselves that he is a swell.", "predicament": "A close-knit group, charmed by a newcomer, invites him into their community life to meet their leading citizen."}
]