[
 {"chunk": 228, "story": 20, "summary": "A surveyor runs a line down Main Street; the banker asks whether the hotel will be built, and the promoter offers him his own lot back at four times the price.", "predicament": "A leading citizen wants back the land he optioned to a promoter, and is asked to pay the inflated price the promoter's rumours created."},
 {"chunk": 229, "story": 20, "summary": "To the promoter's surprise the banker pays two thousand for his own five-hundred-dollar lot, and the paper trumpets the deal.", "predicament": "A shrewd lender, caught up in the fever, pays four times over for land he already owned and calls it good business."},
 {"chunk": 230, "story": 20, "summary": "He sells other options at a profit, uses the money to take up the rest, and puts a grading crew on a hill east of town while papers print pictures of trolley cars.", "predicament": "A promoter uses the first profits from rising land to buy more, and hires a crew to make the enterprise look real."},
 {"chunk": 231, "story": 20, "summary": "Speculation becomes a craze across the route; lots double in a day, and he quietly sells at ten times cost.", "predicament": "A whole region gripped by speculative fever trades land at ever higher prices, while the promoter quietly sells out at the top."},
 {"chunk": 232, "story": 20, "summary": "The buyers rave about the wealth he brought, not seeing that they are passing their own money around at artificial values and he never meant to build a line.", "predicament": "Small investors celebrating newfound wealth do not see that they are only passing their own savings around at inflated prices."},
 {"chunk": 233, "story": 20, "summary": "At his wife's lawn reception he thinks of the crash to come; the mayor says every cent he has is in property and he will not sell until the first car runs.", "predicament": "A promoter hears a trusting neighbour say every cent he has is tied up in the land boom he is about to abandon."},
 {"chunk": 234, "story": 20, "summary": "After the guests leave, the promoter sits brooding and calls his wife in.", "predicament": "A schemer who has sold out at the top must tell his partner that the life she loves here is about to end."},
 {"chunk": 235, "story": 20, "summary": "He tells her he has sold everything but the donated land and cleared over two hundred thousand; she thinks it was honestly made, and he asks whether a dollar is ever honest.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner believes his fortune was honestly made, and he realises she has never understood what he does."},
 {"chunk": 236, "story": 20, "summary": "The town and country crowd into the square for the fountain's dedication.", "predicament": "A whole community turns out in holiday mood to celebrate the promoter who is about to leave them ruined."},
 {"chunk": 237, "story": 20, "summary": "The band parades and the promoter rides in the first carriage with the town's leaders.", "predicament": "A promoter who has already sold out rides at the head of a parade in honour of the prosperity he promised."},
 {"chunk": 238, "story": 20, "summary": "The banker speaks for forty-five minutes on the town's glorious future.", "predicament": "A town's leading citizen, heavily invested in a boom, speaks for an hour about the glorious future it promises."},
 {"chunk": 239, "story": 20, "summary": "The mayor introduces the promoter, holding back his name until the dramatic moment.", "predicament": "A town's leaders heap public praise on a benefactor they believe has made them all rich."},
 {"chunk": 240, "story": 20, "summary": "The crowd roars his name; he makes a short modest speech thanking them, sweating.", "predicament": "A promoter who is about to abandon a town must stand before it and accept its gratitude with becoming modesty."},
 {"chunk": 241, "story": 20, "summary": "His wife pulls the cord and the fountain he promised spouts; the editor runs off to write it up.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner is given the honour of unveiling his gift to the town, not knowing it is a parting gesture."},
 {"chunk": 242, "story": 20, "summary": "Home, he says they must leave for Europe; his wife is horrified that he will not build the line and that her happiness here was built on theft.", "predicament": "A partner who has found respect at last learns the schemer plans to leave, making her happiness part of the theft."},
 {"chunk": 243, "story": 20, "summary": "As he insists it is legal, a real traction magnate arrives wanting to talk about his line.", "predicament": "A promoter about to abandon a sham enterprise is visited by a genuine operator who wants to take it seriously."}
]