The child was still safe.

It lay undisturbed in the remotest corner of the recess.
So overjoyed was the carpenter with the successful issue of his undertaking, that he scarcely paused a moment to recruit himself; but, securing the child, set out upon his return.

Retracing his steps, he arrived, without further accident, at the eastern platform of the starling.

As he anticipated, he was here comparatively screened from the fury of the wind; and when he gazed upon the roaring fall beneath him, visible through the darkness in a glistening sheet of foam, his heart overflowed with gratitude for his providential deliverance.
As he moved about upon the starling, Mr.Wood became sensible that he was not alone.

Some one was standing beside him.