[
 {"chunk": 177, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Over a three-hour dinner and a night of clubs, the swindler, who can hold his drink, gets the lawyer helplessly drunk; at dawn the lawyer mumbles that the sale is at ten.",
  "predicament": "A schemer plies a treacherous accomplice with drink all night, keeping his own head, so that the accomplice will miss the deal."},
 {"chunk": 178, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The lawyer plans to sneak off to the sale first, but the swindler drugs his nightcap and he collapses into a deep sleep.",
  "predicament": "An accomplice who plans to slip away and betray his partner is quietly drugged by the partner he meant to cheat."},
 {"chunk": 179, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The swindler carries him to bed, searches him and finds telegrams from the giant company authorising the lawyer to buy the patents cheaply and keep the difference as his fee.",
  "predicament": "A schemer searches his unconscious accomplice and finds proof that he was secretly working for the rival all along."},
 {"chunk": 180, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Admiring the company's business sense but despising the lawyer's clumsiness, he lays the telegrams out beside the sleeper and sits watching him for hours.",
  "predicament": "A schemer who has caught an accomplice's betrayal lays out the evidence for him to wake to, and keeps guard."},
 {"chunk": 181, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Fighting sleep for five hours with cold showers, he finally gets the telephone call: the patents have been bought.",
  "predicament": "A schemer fights exhaustion for hours so the rival he has drugged cannot wake before the deal is done."},
 {"chunk": 182, "story": 16,
  "summary": "Barely able to stand, he calls a lawyer; his confederate arrives, having bought the patents at the sale for eight thousand.",
  "predicament": "A schemer who has outwitted everyone learns his front man bought the prize cheaply, and can barely stay awake to finish."},
 {"chunk": 183, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The inventor bid everything he had but lost; the partners will divide a pittance. The confederate jokingly asks what the transfer is worth, and the swindler threatens him with the police.",
  "predicament": "A front man jokes about keeping the prize for himself, and his partner answers at once with a threat of prison."},
 {"chunk": 184, "story": 16,
  "summary": "The swindler shows his confederate the drugged lawyer: the last man who tried to double-cross him, who lost forty thousand.",
  "predicament": "A schemer shows his oldest friend what happened to the last accomplice who tried to cheat him, as a warning."}
]