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As an exciting story by Helen Irwin Dowdey, read Elaine Carrington's popular radio serial heard on NBC Monday through Friday at 5 P.M., EWT, sponsored by General Foods Corp. Illustration posed by Mary Jan* Higby as Joan and John Raby as Harry.
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THERE are moments in everybody's life that have the shattering impact of a bombshell. Before that moment, life has had a certain, expected pattern. The sun rises, the sun sets and one's day is completed happily or unhappily. Then suddenly a word may be spoken, an unforgettable face seen — and the pattern has exploded into fragments. Nothing is ever the same afterwards. For Joan, the bombshell was simply a newspaper headline.
It was a few days after the disturbing dinner with Phil at the Lodge. She hadn't felt well that morning and had forced herself out of bed to prepare Harry's breakfast. She always said she despised wives who lay late abed while their husbands fixed their own meals and, over his protests, she had gotten up to put the coffee on and start the water boiling for the eggs.
Later she remembered every detail with a photographic clarity. She was standing by the stove. Harry came in with the morning paper and the bottle of milk. He had on his new gray suit, and there was a smudge of shaving powder on his ear. He put the bottle on the refrigerator and unfolded the paper, saying, "Wonder what Hitler's up to now."
The paper crackled as he unfolded it, and then came such a dead silence that she turned to look at him. He was staring in frozen fascination at the front page. She looked over his shoulder. Words leaped up at her.
WIFE SUES SOCIALITE;
NAMES "OTHER WOMAN" "Mrs. Philip Stanley yesterday filed suit for divorce, naming Mrs. Harry Davis of Fox Meadow Lane, as co-respondent. Mrs. Stanley, the former Eve Topping, charges improper relations ..."
Joan gave a half strangled cry. All the strength drained from her body and the room whirled dizzily. She felt Harry's arms around her, and then the sickening darkness closed down.
She came up out of it to find herself lying on the bed. Dr. Wiggan was bending over her. She
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