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FLOATING FANCIES
AMONG THE
WEIRD AND THE OCCULT.
BY
CLARA H. HOLMES.
F. TENNYSON NEELY,
PUBLISHER,
LONDON. NEW YORK.
Copyright, 1898,
by
CLARA H. HOLMES.
TO MY FRIEND,
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Nordhung Nordjansen | 7 |
| In the Beyond | 29 |
| The Tragedy of the Gnomes | 51 |
| An Unfair Exchange | 67 |
| Limitations | 99 |
| A Tale of Two Pictures | 119 |
| A Nineteenth Century Ghost | 152 |
| What Became of the Money? | 169 |
| His Friend | 196 |
| A Tale of the X Ray | 214 |
| An Averted Tragedy | 231 |
FLOATING FANCIES.
7
NORDHUNG NORDJANSEN.
Very many years ago, in an age when departuresfrom the regular line of thought were accountedbut vagaries of a diseased brain, whenscience was a thing of dread, and great knowledgedeemed but sorcery, Nordhung Nordjansenwas born, and grew to early manhood on the farnorthern coast of Norway.
Through all his boyhood days—whenever he
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