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OUT IN THE STORM.
THE hand felt its way up his arm, and, grasping it gently and strongly above the elbow, lifted Diamond from the bed.

The moment he was through the hole in the roof, all the winds of heaven seemed to lay hold upon him, and buffet him hither and thither.

His hair blew one way, his night-gown another, his legs threatened to float from under him, and his head to grow dizzy with the swiftness of the invisible assailant.
Cowering, he clung with the other hand to the huge hand which held his arm, and fear invaded his heart.
"Oh, North Wind!" he murmured, but the words vanished from his lips as he had seen the soap-bubbles that burst too soon vanish from the mouth of his pipe.

The wind caught them, and they were nowhere.