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$1.30 or what he lost Monday night. It was a good party and Walt a good host. Frank Compton and Whitey Wilson completed the sextet - Frank as lively as ever and a winner tonight; often he is on the short end and plenty short. I notice Jake's spirits are high when he's ahead and very low when he's behind; I don't think he's a particularly good loser.
 
Understand Basil Cain is enjoying his three weeks vacation in Florida alone, the whole family being in Erie as usual. Somehow, I can't imagine myself going away alone for a vacation but evidently it can be done.

Willie's ping-pong is getting [[underlined]] hot. [[/underlined]] She took me for four out of five games last night and I was doing all I could.

Erie, Pa.,
Saturday, Nov. 26, '38.
Went to the Reed's this evening for bridge. When refreshment time came, we got on the subject of Maybelle and Walter Scarborough. Barbara seems to think there is a good possibility she will never come back to Walter. It seems a sure bet she will be away all winter anyhow and maybe for good and all. With the exception of the Lottridges, who moved out of our circle years, ago, this is apparently the only case of real martial trouble among all our friends and it is a long rather interesting story. Maybelle and her sister were orphans and both were adopted, each into a different family. Maybelle's foster father was a druggist and apparently family well-to-do. He died, leaving Maybelle and her foster mother, who either moved here from Pittsburgh or already were here - I don't know why the move from P'burg to Erie but it makes no difference. Maybelle went to Ohio Wesleyan, was, she told me, engaged for a while to a Phi Delt there. Then she returned to Erie, had a job in the Boston Store. Along about 1928 she met Tom Sawyer and I think fell pretty hard for him - she still talks about him. Tom played around with her here but I doubt if he was ever seriously in love with her; I think Tom was after bigger game. He played about with Allene Skinner and later married the daughter of Ennis, vice-president of American Locomotive Company. At any rate, when Tom departed Erie, Maybelle was pretty well broken up. She may have thought he jilted her and perhaps he did, I don't know. But at any rate, she was all

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