Can Such Things Be?

33 Stories:

The death of Halpin Frayser
The mocking bird.--
My favorite murder.--
One officer, one man.--
The man out of the nose.--
An occurrence at Brownville.--
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General.--
The famous Gilson bequest.--
The story of a conscience.--
The secret of Macarger's Gulch.--
The major's tale.--
A psychological shipwreck.--
One kind of officer: I. One of the uses of civility. II. Under what circumstances men do not wish to be shot. III. How to play the cannon without notes. IV. To introduce General Masterson. V. How sounds can fight shadows. VI. Why, being affronted by A, it is not best to affront B.--
The applicant.--
One of the twins.--
The night-doings at "Deadman's."--
The widower Turmore.--George Thurston.--
John Bartine's watch.--
The realm of the unreal.--
A baby tramp.

**Some haunted houses:**
"The Isle of Pines,"
A fruitless assignment,
The thing at Nolan.--

**Bodies of the dead:**
that of Granny Magone,
A light sleeper,
The mystery of John Farquharson,
Dead and "gone",
A cold night,
A creature of habit.--

**"Mysterious disappearances:"**
The difficulty of crossing a field,
An unfinished race,
Charles Ashmore's trail.