He waved his hands above him, and then shouting for the others to follow, he whipped up his horse furiously.
The animal plunged into the snow, and tossed and floundered and made a rush onward.
But the other drivers held back, and, instead of following, shouted to the first driver to stop, and cried to the passengers to hold on.

Not a cry of fear escaped from any one of the ladies.

All did as they were directed, and grasped the stakes of their sleds, looking up at the slope with white lips, and expectation of horror in their eyes, watching for the avalanche.
And down it came, a vast mass of snow and ice--down it came, irresistibly, tremendously, with a force that nothing could withstand.
All eyes watched its progress in the silence of utter and helpless terror.

It came.

It struck.