[
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A ragged stranger swaggers into the best inn in a small town, bullies the waiter who tries to turn him out, and demands to see the landlord.",
  "predicament": "A penniless newcomer forces his way into a place he does not belong, counting on a secret to back him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The stranger greets the landlord by another name, a wanted pirate's, and demands clothes, lodging and money in return for silence.",
  "predicament": "A man who has built a respectable new life is found by an old associate who threatens to expose his past."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The landlord gives him money; the blackmailer draws a pistol, declares he will take half of everything from now on, and settles in.",
  "predicament": "A man pays off a blackmailer and learns the price will be half of everything, for good."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The landlord says he has lived honestly for fifteen years and warns the man not to wake the devil in him; the blackmailer meets the landlord's stepdaughter and says he will stay.",
  "predicament": "A reformed man warns a blackmailer not to push him too far, while the blackmailer sets his sights on the man's family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The blackmailer orders the best supper and room, and sleeps with his door barricaded and a pistol under his pillow.",
  "predicament": "A man who has seized power over another knows the danger he is in, and guards himself even as he gloats."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He pushes in at the family breakfast table, eyes the stepdaughter, hints at the landlord's past before her, and goes out to buy new clothes.",
  "predicament": "A household must make polite space for someone who holds them hostage."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Within a month the blackmailer runs the inn; the landlord, failing in health, backs him in sacking a loyal old servant, and his daughter demands to know who is master.",
  "predicament": "Someone watches a person she trusts give way at every turn to an intruder, and demands that he stand up for himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 87,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The landlord sides with the blackmailer, who threatens to ruin the girl and have the landlord hanged; the landlord pleads for peace.",
  "predicament": "A man who is being blackmailed hears his tormentor threaten someone he loves, and must choose between swallowing it and hitting back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 88,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The inn decays under the blackmailer's rule; the landlord collapses with a fit, which upsets the blackmailer's plans.",
  "predicament": "A blackmailer's hold depends on his victim's life, and that victim suddenly collapses."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 89,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The landlord lies dying, anxious to please the blackmailer, while his daughter nurses him; the blackmailer resolves to get the hidden money before he dies.",
  "predicament": "A blackmailer whose victim is dying must grab what he can before his hold disappears."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 90,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The blackmailer threatens to inform; the dying man begs for time and promises to reveal his money that night if his daughter gets a share.",
  "predicament": "A dying man pressed by his tormentor bargains for time and for provision for someone he loves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 91,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "At night the blackmailer drugs the nurse and demands the money; the landlord extracts his promise about the daughter.",
  "predicament": "A man who thinks his helpless victim is at his mercy leans in close to hear the secret."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 92,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The 'dying' landlord seizes and strangles him, revealing he has been shamming weakness and planning to blame the killing on the blackmailer's own followers.",
  "predicament": "A man who pretended to be helpless strikes at the tormentor who threatened his family."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 93,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He stages the scene as a robbery and returns to bed as the drugged nurse unwittingly provides his alibi.",
  "predicament": "A man who has done a desperate thing arranges things so that suspicion falls elsewhere."
 }
]