At the Back of the North Wind · Character
Mr. Dyves
A man who briefly employs Diamond's father.
minor
First appearance: xviii the drunken cabman
Mr. Dyves shows up with force in The Hayloft. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned as the neighbor whose garden would be overlooked by a window, and whose bed North Wind dismisses as an ash-pit.
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