Whether she was there or not he could not tell, however, for the moonlight had vanished, and the room was utterly dark.

A great fear, such as he had never before known, came upon him, and almost overwhelmed him.

He groped his way to the door, and crawled down the stair--in doubt and anxiety as to how he should find his way out of the house in the dark.

And the stair seemed ever so much longer than when he came up.

Nor was that any wonder, for down and down he went, until at length his foot struck a door, and when he rose and opened it, he found himself under the starry, moonless sky at the foot of the tower.
He soon discovered the way out of the garden, with which he had some acquaintance already, and in a few minutes was climbing the mountain with a solemn and cheerful heart.