The whole mountain is shaking and falling toward us.

Go now, Pierre, and I'll never make a sound to bring you back." He said: "Hush! I've something here which will keep us both safe.
Look!" He tore from the chain the little metal cross, and held it high overhead, glimmering in the pallid light.

She forgot her fear in wonder.
"I gambled with only one coin to lose, and I came out tonight with hundreds and hundreds of dollars because I had the cross.

It is a charm against all danger and against all bad fortune.

It has never failed me." Over them the piled mass slid closer.