Turning the corner, however, they saw to their delight that the limits of the avalanche had not extended so far, the refuges, as they afterward learned, being so placed as to be sheltered by overhanging cliffs from any catastrophe of this kind.
They found the guide upon his knees, muttering his prayers before a cross, which he had formed of two sticks laid crosswise on the ground before him; and he could scarce believe his eyes when they entered, so certain had he considered it that they were lost.

There were no longer any signs of the wolves.

The greater portion, indeed, of the pack had been overwhelmed by the avalanche, and the rest, frightened and scared, had fled to their fastnesses in the woods.
The knight now removed his helmet, and discovered a handsome young man of some twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
"I am," he said, "Baron Ernest of Kornstein.

To whom do I owe my life ?" "In spite of my red cross," Cuthbert said, "I am English.

My name is Sir Cuthbert, and I am Earl of Evesham.