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.

NORDHUNG NORDJANSEN.

Very many years ago, in an age when departures from the regular line of thought were accounted but vagaries of a diseased brain, when science was a thing of dread, and great knowledge deemed but sorcery, Nordhung Nordjansen was born, and grew to early manhood on the far northern coast of Norway.