Then she and her baby were left alone.

The light which had burned for a few minutes in the deserted cabin was quenched suddenly.

She could not then tell whither she was drifting.

The outline of the white dunes on the peninsula showed dimly ahead, and she judged the tree was moving in a line with the river.

It must be about slack water, and she had probably reached the eddy formed by the confluence of the tide and the overflowing waters of the river.