Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{"chunk": 91, "story": 8,
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"summary": "The day after the funeral the two call on the grieving widow and hand her the insurance check with a speech about the order's paternal care.",
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"predicament": "Two schemers call on a grieving widow the day after the funeral, offering her money with a speech about caring for her."},
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{"chunk": 92, "story": 8,
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"summary": "Paid by check so she will not feel real money, the widow says one daughter wants spending and the other wants the mortgage paid; the swindler warns against losing the money's earning power.",
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"predicament": "A grieving widow torn between her daughters' plans for her small windfall is advised by strangers not to waste it."},
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{"chunk": 93, "story": 8,
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"summary": "They offer her stock in the order's operating company at twelve percent; she is swayed less by the figures than by the swindler's diamonds and silk socks.",
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"predicament": "A widow who cannot follow the figures is persuaded to invest her small inheritance because the man offering it looks so rich."},
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{"chunk": 94, "story": 8,
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"summary": "The pretty younger daughter comes in; the swindler offers her a job in the offices, and the pair leave with the widow's check.",
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"predicament": "A struggling family is offered a job for a pretty daughter as the sweetener that seals the loss of their inheritance."},
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{"chunk": 95, "story": 8,
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"summary": "Back at the dingy office the operator exults; the swindler recasts the death payout as a stock sale and says they will rent fine offices on credit.",
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"predicament": "A promoter reclassifies a widow's returned death benefit as a share sale, and plans to spend it on appearances bought on credit."},
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{"chunk": 96, "story": 8,
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"summary": "The operator hands over his half share, and finds he has been paid with a ninety-day note instead of cash.",
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"predicament": "A partner who sold half his business for cash finds he has been paid with nothing but a promise to pay later."},
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{"chunk": 97, "story": 8,
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"summary": "The swindler lays out a plan: reorganise at a quarter million, sell stock to the members, cut rates and pay themselves salaries; the young clerk asks how they will ever pay claims.",
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"predicament": "A junior clerk, dazzled by a promised salary, asks the one awkward question: how the business will ever meet its obligations."},
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{"chunk": 98, "story": 8,
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"summary": "The swindler says insurance is beside the point; they will sell stock to the members and then get out. The operator accepts the note; the clerk says he does not quite like it.",
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"predicament": "An employee promised a share of the profits suspects the business is a fraud, but the money silences him for now."}
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]
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