【美国故事】雄心壮志的来客 (7/7)

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A sound, rising like the roar of the ocean, shook the house. Young and old exchanged one wild look. Then the same words burst from all their lips.
"The slide! The slide!"
They rushed away from the house, into the darkness, to the secret spot the father had built to protect them from the mountain slide.
The whole side of the mountain came rushing toward the house like a waterfall of destruction. But just before it reached the little house, the wave of earth divided in two and went around the family's home. Everyone and everything in the path of the terrible slide was destroyed, except the little house.
The next morning, smoke was seen coming from the chimney of the house on the mountain.
Inside, the fire was still burning. The chairs were still drawn up in a half circle around the fireplace. It looked as if the family had just gone out for a walk.
Some people thought that a stranger had been with the family on that terrible night. But no one ever discovered who the stranger was. His name and way of life remain a mystery. His body was never found.