[
 {"chunk": 244, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The sham line is sold to a real traction group; the town fetes the departing couple, his wife is proud that he can come back, and he laughs that it turned out a legitimate deal.",
  "predicament": "A schemer who meant to leave a town ruined finds a real buyer takes over his sham enterprise, and everyone ends up satisfied."},
 {"chunk": 245, "story": 21,
  "summary": "Struck by the thought that honest deals may pay better, and holding half a million, he reads American papers across Europe looking to make a commanding fortune.",
  "predicament": "A schemer with a large fortune wonders for the first time whether honest dealing might pay better than his old tricks."},
 {"chunk": 246, "story": 21,
  "summary": "Finding European laws too strict, he cables his confederate to buy him a farm in the wheat belt for a new enterprise.",
  "predicament": "A schemer abroad finds that everyone there expects real value for money, and hurries home where rules are looser."},
 {"chunk": 247, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The confederate, just then fleeing a postal fraud charge, builds a lavish gentleman's farmhouse with the swindler's money.",
  "predicament": "A schemer on the run from the law is handed a friend's money to spend and builds him a showplace with it."},
 {"chunk": 248, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The swindler arrives dressed as a gentleman farmer; the confederate welcomes him with a phonograph and says he is hiding under a false name.",
  "predicament": "A schemer arriving to play a new part is greeted by an old friend who is hiding from the law under a false name."},
 {"chunk": 249, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The confederate explains the authorities stopped his gold mine and his bride has left him; the swindler's wife is pleased.",
  "predicament": "A swindler admits his latest venture has been shut down and his flashy marriage has collapsed with it."},
 {"chunk": 250, "story": 21,
  "summary": "His room is papered with worthless stock certificates; the swindler solemnly announces he will save the downtrodden farmers.",
  "predicament": "A schemer announces, with a straight face, that his next venture will rescue a whole class of downtrodden producers."},
 {"chunk": 251, "story": 21,
  "summary": "He plans to empty the wheat pit and make a million, then take on the greatest financiers; they meet the farm's new manager.",
  "predicament": "A schemer who has grown rich sets his sights on beating the biggest financiers of all at their own game."},
 {"chunk": 252, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The confederate shows a lavish farm office and introduces a college-trained young farmer the neighbours think a joke.",
  "predicament": "A young man with modern training, mocked by his neighbours, is offered a post by rich strangers who value him."},
 {"chunk": 253, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The young farmer asks only fifteen dollars a week; the swindler admits he knows nothing of farming but wants wheat.",
  "predicament": "An earnest young expert is hired by an employer who cheerfully admits he knows nothing of the work and wants only one thing."},
 {"chunk": 254, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The young man honestly warns that the farm cannot possibly turn a profit at the scale planned.",
  "predicament": "A newly hired expert feels bound to tell his rich employer plainly that the venture cannot possibly make money."},
 {"chunk": 255, "story": 21,
  "summary": "The swindler shows him bonds and a bank book and claims half a million made in wheat investment; the awed young man spreads the word through the county.",
  "predicament": "An honest young employee is shown a pile of securities and spreads word through the district that his employer is a genius."}
]