"Say, now, is them varmints around?"
"Laying for this stage,"
"Wow!" gasped Sandy. "That's terrible, so it is!"
Jack gave all hands an account of what happened, and when he finished the stage passengers were in a cold sweat.
They wanted to turn right back.
But Jack wouldn't allow this.
"I ain't sure whether they're ahead or behind us," said he. "At any rate you can't turn back now."
"But they may kill us!" said a fat man in the stage.
"They're bound to rob as anyway," asserted a man with a valise filed with genuine diamond jewelry samples.
"That depends entirely upon all hands present," said Jack. "Are all of you armed?"