In the glamour of the moonlight they had vanished; a veil of silver-gray vapor touched here and there with ebony shadows masked its site.

A black strip beyond was the river bank.

All else was changed.

With a sudden sense of awe and loneliness she turned to the cabin and its sleeping inmates--all that seemed left to her in the vast and stupendous domination of rock and wood and sky.
But in another moment the loneliness passed.

A new and delicious sense of an infinite hospitality and friendliness in their silent presence began to possess her.