There was no sign of the raft nor of any moving object.

"It must be farther up, around that point," thought Winn, and he hurried in that direction.

From one point to another he thus pursued his anxious way until the head of the island was once more in sight.

Then he knew that he must have passed the place where the raft had been, and that it was gone.
As a realizing sense of how he had been duped and of his present situation flashed through his mind, the poor boy sat down on a log, too bewildered to act, or even to think..