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over what he might do. Personally I shouldn't be surprised if he would go over and shoot the banker. It's the sort of a set-up that frequently results in such an ending and I think he'd be well justified. If she were free, I doubt if the banker would marry her unless simply to get her money. I think that man is an unscrupulous devil. Maybelle gave him complete details of her finances, probably a very foolish move, which Walter is not supposed to know about. Apparently Walt has some authority over what is done with her money and at present, she still doesn't have access to the principle [[sic]]; Barbara and Charlie think that Walt, realizing Maybelle's flightiness with money, has thrown the monkey wrench into the machinery of her getting the principal. If she had the principal the chances are fair she would turn all or a good part of it over to the banker to make a killing in the market. He is just that sort. Probabilities are that if she had the principal, it would soon slip through her fingers in one way or another. At present, Walt is constantly writing her and phoning her and begging her to come home, which simply provokes her. If he would lay low and appear not to give a damn, it would probably be far more effective in bringing her around to the realization she would do well to come home and battle the thing out. For Maybelle the future looks far from rosy. If she leaves Walt and divorces him, the chances are she may tie up with some flighty fool who'll go through her money or treat her worse than Walt. She is silly about men - evidently has no judgment. Her best course, as I see it is to come home and resume life with Walt. As Barbara says, she may not be supremely happy with him but how many marriages are perfect? My sympathies are rather with Walter although I realize he may have brought a lot of this on himself. Maybelle has never made him a good wife. She has taken poor care of him, fed him erratically, been unfaithful to him. She has never had any children - perhaps not her fault - but nevertheless true. For him, the future looks brighter. He may lose Maybelle but if he does, he may be better off. He's independent and still young. He can marry again if he likes. The one I'd like to see get it full in the neck is the banker, the dirty, underhanded, sneaking snake-in-the-grass, if there ever was one, accepting Walt's hospitality and making a cuckold of him behind his back!