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{"chunk":14,"story":1,"summary":"An old man losing at chess to his son grumbles at the weather and their remote house while waiting for a guest, who arrives: an old friend back from long service abroad.","predicament":"A man losing a friendly contest tries to distract from his mistake, and is caught at it by his family."},
{"chunk":15,"story":1,"summary":"Warmed by whisky, the guest tells tales of distant lands; pressed by his host, he reluctantly produces a dried monkey's paw he calls magic.","predicament":"A guest who wants to leave a dangerous subject alone is coaxed by his hosts' curiosity into bringing it out."},
{"chunk":16,"story":1,"summary":"The guest explains the paw grants three men three wishes each, that he has had his, and that the last owner wished for death; asked if he would wish again, he wavers.","predicament":"Someone offered a thing that grants wishes is warned by the man who used it that it brings sorrow."},
{"chunk":17,"story":1,"summary":"The guest throws the paw on the fire; the host snatches it back and keeps it despite repeated warnings to wish sensibly or not at all.","predicament":"A man is offered a dangerous gift by someone who begs him to destroy it, and wants to keep it anyway."},
{"chunk":18,"story":1,"summary":"Egged on by his joking son, the old man wishes for two hundred pounds to clear the house; the paw twists in his hand, but no money appears.","predicament":"A man half-believing in a promise of easy money must decide whether to test it and what to ask for."},
{"chunk":19,"story":1,"summary":"An uneasy night passes; in the morning the family laugh off their fears, though the father recalls that the wishes come true in ways that look like coincidence.","predicament":"A family that tempted fate laughs off their fears in daylight while one of them cannot shake them."},
{"chunk":20,"story":1,"summary":"The son leaves for work; later the mother, half-hoping for money, sees a well-dressed stranger hesitate several times at the gate before coming in.","predicament":"A family waiting on a hoped-for windfall sees a stranger approach who might bring it, or bad news."},
{"chunk":21,"story":1,"summary":"The stranger, from the son's employers, tells the parents their only son has been killed in the machinery.","predicament":"Parents receive news that their only child has been killed, from someone who cannot bring himself to say it."},
{"chunk":22,"story":1,"summary":"The firm denies liability but offers compensation of exactly two hundred pounds; the father collapses. They bury their son and sink into silent grief.","predicament":"A man learns the money he wished for has come as compensation for his child's death."},
{"chunk":23,"story":1,"summary":"A week later the grieving mother remembers the paw's other two wishes and demands that her husband wish their son alive; he calls it madness.","predicament":"A grieving woman seizes on a desperate chance to undo a death, and her spouse is afraid of what it would bring back."},
{"chunk":24,"story":1,"summary":"The father tells her their son was mutilated beyond recognition, but she insists; terrified, he fetches the paw and makes the second wish.","predicament":"A man pressed by his grieving spouse must decide whether to do something he believes is wicked and dangerous."},
{"chunk":25,"story":1,"summary":"Nothing seems to happen; then a stealthy knock comes at the door, and the mother cries that it is their son while the father holds her back.","predicament":"A man who dreads what his wish may bring home must stop his spouse from opening the door to it."},
{"chunk":26,"story":1,"summary":"The mother breaks free and struggles with the bolt; the father finds the paw and makes the third wish, and the door opens on an empty road.","predicament":"A man must use his last chance to undo what his spouse most longs for, before she lets it in."}
]