Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — UP TO DATE GHOSTS [ARTICLE]

UP TO DATE GHOSTS

Fiction readers who like haunted houses and mysterious noises in the night, and ghost doings that baffle explanation, should stop, look, and read right here. For “The House of Whispers” is well named. Its even more fascinating than the old-time haunted house, because it’s a mystery apartment in a big city building—the lovely heroine, for instance, can creep along a ledge from one window to another in the dead of night, and a wonderful pearl necklace can disappear from a wall-safe and find its way back again, and the superintendent and his employees can fasten a charge of murder on the hero, and there might be room in the walls for secret passageways. Butlhere is nothing new-fashioned or queer about the loyalty and devotion of the heroine for her lover in trouble; it’s the same glorious thing that has thrilled us all ever since true love ceased to run smooth. And of course she gets the reward that she deserves—and they live happily ever after.