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 {"chunk": 153, "story": 14,
  "summary": "The swindler's glamorous wife arrives, and the vain doctor spreads word of her furs, diamonds and their lavish suppers, cementing the swindler's reputation for wealth.",
  "predicament": "A vain local notable, dazzled by a newcomer's glamorous spouse and lavish suppers, spreads word that the newcomer could buy them all."},
 {"chunk": 154, "story": 14,
  "summary": "Privately he tells his wife he means to sell the patent to the company that once snubbed him; she asks what they will be like when they are old.",
  "predicament": "A schemer plans to sell someone else's work to the firm that once rejected him, and his partner asks where it all ends."},
 {"chunk": 155, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He throws the vain doctor together with his wife; the business prospers until the machines are ready and his unpaid three thousand falls due.",
  "predicament": "A partner who never paid his full share sees the day approaching when the others will ask for the rest of it."},
 {"chunk": 156, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He proposes to lend the company ten thousand against a note it can discount, and writes a check on a distant bank after banking hours.",
  "predicament": "A partner offers to lend the business money he does not have, dazzling the others with a trick of paper finance."},
 {"chunk": 157, "story": 14,
  "summary": "That night he retrieves the check, claims it was drawn on the wrong bank, discounts the company's note locally and uses the proceeds to cover his own check.",
  "predicament": "A partner covers a worthless check by quietly borrowing against the business's own credit, lending the company its own money."},
 {"chunk": 158, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He squeezes a large loan from the guilty-feeling doctor, sells machines through leads that turn out to be the giant's contacts, and the giant sues the company and every buyer.",
  "predicament": "A struggling small venture is suddenly sued by a powerful rival, and does not know its own partner arranged the attack."},
 {"chunk": 159, "story": 14,
  "summary": "They win the first suit, but the giant files another and another, ready to fight until the little company is choked.",
  "predicament": "A small business wins its first fight against a powerful rival, only to find the rival can keep suing until it is ruined."},
 {"chunk": 160, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He tells the despairing partners he cannot spare a dollar, then goes east to offer the company to the giant's patent manager.",
  "predicament": "A partner abandons his despairing associates in their fight, then goes straight to the rival to sell their business behind their backs."},
 {"chunk": 161, "story": 14,
  "summary": "The patent manager coolly says the company has nothing worth buying and can be outlasted.",
  "predicament": "A seller trying to force a powerful rival to buy is told coolly that the rival can simply wait him out."},
 {"chunk": 162, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He produces letters from wealthy men the giant once crushed, offering to back the little company with real capital.",
  "predicament": "A negotiator produces a list of the rival's old enemies ready to fund a competitor, turning a weak hand into a threat."},
 {"chunk": 163, "story": 14,
  "summary": "Each letter names a rich enemy of the giant; the manager is visibly shaken.",
  "predicament": "A powerful firm's representative realises that the small competitor he meant to crush could be armed by his bitterest enemies."},
 {"chunk": 164, "story": 14,
  "summary": "He explains he sells privately because a quiet sale pays him more than a twelfth share of an open sale, and demands to see the head of the firm.",
  "predicament": "A partner explains frankly that selling his associates out privately pays him far more than sharing an honest sale."},
 {"chunk": 165, "story": 14,
  "summary": "The giant agrees to buy the patents for a hundred and seventy-five thousand within sixty days; he wires his lawyer to have the bank sue on the company's note.",
  "predicament": "Having secretly sold his partners' business, a schemer arranges for their debts to be called in so he can take it cheaply."}
]