Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — THE GASTON PEARLS. [ARTICLE]

THE GASTON PEARLS.

Synopsis.—Circumstances having prevented Spalding Nelson, clerk, from joining the American forces going to France, he is in a despondent mood when he receives an invitation to dinner from his great-uncle, Rufus Gaston. On the way to the house he meets, under peculiar circumstances, a young girl, apparently in trouble, towhom he has an opportunity to be of slight service. She lives in the same apartment building as Rufus Gaston. and he accompanies her to the bouse. Gaston ahd his wife are going to Maine for a trip and want to leave Nelson in charge of the apartment. He accepts. Gaston and his wife tell their great-nephew of mysterious noises—“whispers"— which they have heard tn the house. On his way to the Gaston apartment next Sunday Nelson again meets his accidental acquaintance of a few days before. Barbara Bradford. She urges him not to allow the fact of their being acquainted to be known. The hero takes an Instinctive dislike to the superintendent. Wick, of the building. .