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"Look here: I know. Where I touched the nearest corner of the shutter it's broken-away, so I shall get out in the gallery, turn it over into its place, and nail it down from outside." "Are you mad?" cried Uncle Richard. "How are you going to get in?" "Shan't get in. You'll let me down outside." "Absurd, boy!
The rope would be shut in the door, even if I would harbour such a wild scheme for a moment." "No, it wouldn't," shouted Tom; "the rope would run through the broken-away corner." "Nonsense, it is impossible. The place must go." Whoo! came the wind again; and once more it seemed as if the roof was to be lifted off like a gigantic umbrella, and carried far away by the storm.
He had found hold for one foot by thrusting it in above a snake-like root which formed quite a loop in the broken-away soil, and now, reaching down, he thrust his hand within the collar of Fred's jerkin, and held with all his force.
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