Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Claude Pierce is aristocratic and well-bred boy from England, Fact2: Claude starts attending public school in New York City, Fact3: Gig is in dark mood at time, Fact4: boxing lessons help him best, Fact5: Gig 's father At has been executed at electric chair later point
Output (English): Claude Pierce is an aristocratic and wellbred boy from England, whose parents have received a divorce. According to a child custody agreement signed by his parents, Claude will spend six months living with his father. Jay Pierce, the father in question, has settled in New York City, where he works as an architect. Claude starts attending a public school in New York City. Claudes polished manners make him stand out among his schoolmates, and the other kids start playing pranks on him. He soon gets on the bad side of two lowerclass kids, Robert Buck Murphy and James Gig Stevens. Gig is in a dark mood at the time, because his father is about to be executed for murder. Finding himself the target of the other boys anger, Claude decides to learn selfdefense. Claude takes boxing lessons, which help him best Buck in a street fight. He wins his opponents grudging respect and starts befriending his former tormentors. At a later point, Gigs father has already been executed at the electric chair, and Gig lacks the money to provide a headstone for his fathers grave. He really wants to buy that headstone and starts seeking ways to earn enough money for it. Gig initially tries to get money from his aunt Rose Hawley, who is a kept woman and financially secure. He fails to explain what he intends to do with the money, so Rose refuses to help him. Gig decides to raise the money by stealing, and convinces his friend Buck to help him. However, their initial attempts at crime fail. Claude learns of the problem, and instructs his new friends to start stealing from the rich and to emulate a fictional role model, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. Claude personally orchestrates a robbery at a house that is vacant and unguarded. The trio steal toys which they can sell at a pawn shop to raise money. The robbery and visit to the pawn shop go as planned, but the three juvenile delinquents are then arrested by a police officer who finds their activities suspicious. The boys appear at court, where it is noted that nobody has reported the robbery. Claude explains that it was a fake robbery to begin with. He led his friends into looting his own house, and those toys belonged to Claude himself. He was just trying to help them out. The judge finds Claude innocent of any actual crime, but still finds that Buck and Gig acted with criminal intent. He places the two boys on probation, and they now have to make regular reports to a probation officer. Buck and Gig blame Claude for their fate and angrily severe ties with him. Buck and Gig decide to become runaways and flee from their families and their probation officer. Claude learns of their plans and decides to follow them, in hopes of convincing them to return home. Claude shows symptoms of illness at this point, but he attributes them to a common cold and pays no attention to them. The three boys meet at the local cemetery, under heavy rain. They check the recentlyerected gravestone for Gigs father. The boys hitchhike and are picked by a passing vehicle. The vehicle belongs to a trio of criminals trying to escape the authorities, and the boys distrust their intentions. The six of them stop for a meal at a diner, where Claude covertly alerts the police. While the criminals face the police in a shootout, the boys escape. Claudes symptoms are getting worse, and he has both fever and delirium. Buck and Gig are getting worried and decide to take Claude to a hospital. Claude is diagnosed with pneumonia. As Buck and Gig decide to get in contact with their probation officer, Claude is visited by his mother Hilda Pierce. Hilda wants to transfer Claude to a better hospital, but her plan seems to backfire. Claudes condition gets worse following the transport. Buck and Gig decide to tell their seemingly dying friend how much they care for him. The encouragement apparently helps in Claudes recovery. The film ends with the three boys happily going on a bicycle ride.