Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: window has been open local factory, Fact2: money represent new start for him and wife Kit, Fact3: Kit confesses to being heavily in debt to local draper Pilleger, Fact4: Kobling decides to call Pilleger 's bluff facing loss of business through lack of ready cash, Fact5: huge fire breaks out in neighbourhood leading to chaos
Output (English): Struggling Tyneside barber Will Kobling Richardson is in financial trouble. One evening, opportunistically and on impulse, he steals £100 from a local factory where a window has been accidentally left open. He hopes the money will represent a new start for him and wife Kit Wynyard. His hopes are soon dashed when Kit confesses to being heavily in debt to local draper Pilleger Henry Oscar, who has been pressuring her to pay up. Most of the stolen cash has to go on settling Kits debt. Pilleger banks the money, only to receive a visit from the police to inform him that the serial numbers of the notes match those stolen from the factory. He professes himself an innocent party, claiming not to know which of his many customers the illgotten cash came from, and the police have to let the matter drop. Pilleger comes up with a scheme to blackmail Kobling, promising silence in return for a payment of £3 per week. Kobling is horrified to contemplate the extra financial burden being placed on him indefinitely, but sees no option but to consent. Some time later, and facing the loss of his business through lack of ready cash, Kobling decides to call Pillegers bluff. An ideal opportunity presents itself when a huge fire breaks out in the neighbourhood, leading to chaos which distracts the police and the local population. He confronts Pilleger and a fight breaks out, ending in Pillegers death. The police suspect that Kobling is involved and begin to use psychological tactics to break him down, but he remains grimly silent and sends Kit and their baby to stay with her sister. Kobling is seen at Pillegers store on the night of his murder by Lizzie Crane Mary Clare, a wellknown local eccentric, and she begins to tattle about what she saw. The populace start to shun Kobling and bay for justice, but the police dont believe Lizzies word will stand up as evidence, and still dont think they can arrest him on that alone. As they continue to put pressure on him, Kobling comes close to breaking point. He is finally pushed over the edge when he receives the dreadful news that Kit has been killed in a road accident.