JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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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": 198, "story": 18, "summary": "Bored with two hours to kill, the party hires a carriage to see the town; the confederate's bride warms to the swindler more than the others like.", "predicament": "Wealthy-seeming visitors with time to kill decide to show themselves off to a small town that is already dazzled."},
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{"chunk": 199, "story": 18, "summary": "The town watches the four parade up Main Street like a circus, and the swindler senses sleeping money everywhere.", "predicament": "A schemer riding through an admiring small town senses the savings hidden in every modest home, waiting to be stirred."},
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{"chunk": 200, "story": 18, "summary": "The two schemers toss a coin for the town and the swindler wins, vowing to come back and play the tune that makes the coin dance out.", "predicament": "Two schemers toss a coin to decide which of them will come back and fleece a trusting small town."},
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{"chunk": 201, "story": 18, "summary": "His wife, seeing the bride's glances at him, urges him to settle here and start an honest business; they drive back and find their watches wrong.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner, uneasy at a rival's flirting, urges him to settle in a quiet town and run an honest business."},
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{"chunk": 202, "story": 18, "summary": "An idler runs to tell them the through train has taken their private car without them.", "predicament": "A party of showy visitors is stranded in a small town with no luggage, and must keep up appearances without their trappings."},
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{"chunk": 203, "story": 18, "summary": "The railroad refuses to bring the car back; they are stuck until the next afternoon.", "predicament": "A rich-seeming traveller who bullied a subordinate finds the subordinate's masters now refuse to do him any favours."},
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{"chunk": 204, "story": 18, "summary": "The only suspicious man in town, the hotel keeper, demands cash in advance from guests without luggage and sends the hundred-dollar bill to the bank to be checked.", "predicament": "A soured, suspicious host demands payment in advance from grand-looking guests, and even checks whether their money is real."},
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{"chunk": 205, "story": 18, "summary": "A local notable welcomes the swindler and offers a site for a new hotel; the newspaper owner brings papers and promises the town's cooperation in any investment.", "predicament": "Small-town boosters rush to offer land and cooperation to a supposed millionaire, each hoping to profit from his investment."},
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{"chunk": 206, "story": 18, "summary": "The front page trumpets Eastern millions, the stolen car and a rumoured huge hotel.", "predicament": "A local paper turns a stranger's chance stop into headlines about millions coming to town, and the whole town believes it."},
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{"chunk": 207, "story": 18, "summary": "The article lists his schemes as triumphs and urges a traction line to rival the railroad; the swindler seizes on the idea.", "predicament": "A town booster's pet idea for a new enterprise hands a passing schemer exactly the scheme he needs."},
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{"chunk": 208, "story": 18, "summary": "He plans a traction line built on a thousand dollars and the town's money; his wife begs him to make honest money with the hundred thousand they have.", "predicament": "A schemer who already has a comfortable fortune is begged by his partner to use it honestly instead of starting another scheme."},
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{"chunk": 209, "story": 18, "summary": "The local notable brings in the town's great man, president of the bank and every factory.", "predicament": "A small town's leading citizen, head of every business in it, comes in person to court a stranger he believes is rich."},
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{"chunk": 210, "story": 18, "summary": "The great man speechifies about the town's advantages, and one leading citizen after another calls to welcome the millionaire.", "predicament": "One by one the leading citizens of a small town call on a stranger to beg him to invest among them."},
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{"chunk": 211, "story": 18, "summary": "He hosts them all on the town's entire supply of champagne, and afterwards gloats that they are begging to be skinned; he means to hide the traction idea.", "predicament": "A schemer entertains a town's leaders at his own expense and gloats afterwards that they came begging to be fleeced."},
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{"chunk": 212, "story": 18, "summary": "Next morning he tours sites, sketching a grand hotel and opera house, and keeps a thoughtful silence over one pasture.", "predicament": "A promoter touring a small town describes grand buildings to come, and says just enough to set everyone dreaming."},
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{"chunk": 213, "story": 18, "summary": "He takes cheap ninety-day options on seven pieces of property, and the paper devotes its whole front page to the purchases.", "predicament": "A promoter spends a trifle on the right to buy land later, and the whole town reads it as a sign of fortunes coming."}
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