"Do take me home."

"Have you had enough of your old home already?"

"Yes, more than enough. It isn't a home at all now."

"I thought that would be it," said North Wind. "Everything, dreaming
and all, has got a soul in it, or else it's worth nothing, and we
don't care a bit about it. Some of our thoughts are worth nothing,
because they've got no soul in them. The brain puts them into
the mind, not the mind into the brain."

"But how can you know about that, North Wind? You haven't got
a body."

"If I hadn't you wouldn't know anything about me. No creature can
know another without the help of a body. But I don't care to talk
about that. It is time for you to go home."

So saying, North Wind lifted Diamond and bore him away.



CHAPTER XXXVIII

AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND


I DID not see Diamond for a week or so after this, and then he told me