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": 143, "story": 13, "summary": "The promoter plays the prince at the church raffle, befriends the vain local doctor, and writes his wife to come at once because he needs her smile in his business.", "predicament": "A promoter courts a whole community's goodwill with cheap generosity, and sends for his spouse to charm a vain local notable."},
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{"chunk": 144, "story": 13, "summary": "Having studied the rival machine, he tells the inventor one part of his device infringes the giant's patent and shows him a way round it.", "predicament": "A partner discovers a hidden flaw in the founder's work and presents himself as the one who can fix it."},
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{"chunk": 145, "story": 13, "summary": "He proposes a simpler improvement he will patent and assign to the company for a fifteen-hundred-dollar credit; the inventor, shaken, finds a patent that nearly covers the principle.", "predicament": "A founder proud of six years' work is told a partner's small change is worth a large credit in the shared business."},
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{"chunk": 146, "story": 13, "summary": "The inventor wants time to consult his friends; the promoter arranges to hold the signing at his hotel, and counts his cash.", "predicament": "A promoter who cannot pay his share arranges for the signing to happen on his own ground, where he can control the room."},
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{"chunk": 147, "story": 13, "summary": "With only six hundred dollars, he hosts the partners in a grand private dining room with pitchers of beer; the doctor moves him into the chair.", "predicament": "A promoter with almost no money hosts his partners in grand surroundings so that nobody thinks to ask about his share."},
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{"chunk": 148, "story": 13, "summary": "The doctor vouches for him as a gentleman of vast means; the partnership papers are signed, and he casually raises his patent credit.", "predicament": "A vain notable vouches for a newcomer's wealth on the strength of one good lunch, and the partners sign without question."},
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{"chunk": 149, "story": 13, "summary": "The credit is approved; he proposes that each member pay in only two thousand now, to keep the rest earning interest, which leaves his own cash share at five hundred.", "predicament": "A partner who cannot pay his share persuades the others that paying in less money now is only sensible business."},
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{"chunk": 150, "story": 13, "summary": "The thrifty men revere interest and agree; he declines every office, offering only to back them if ever needed.", "predicament": "A promoter declines every office and responsibility, offering only to back the venture with money he does not have."},
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{"chunk": 151, "story": 13, "summary": "Amid a lavish lunch he quietly pays in five hundred dollars, completing a share bought mostly with credit, then sends for his own lawyer.", "predicament": "A partner quietly buys a full share in a real business for a fraction of what everyone else paid in."},
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{"chunk": 152, "story": 13, "summary": "He instructs his lawyer to research every lawsuit the giant company has fought and every company it has bought out.", "predicament": "A partner secretly studies how a powerful rival crushes small competitors, planning to use that against his own associates."}
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