Whiz! came the shots.
Jack picked up another bomb, and let it fly.
It landed among the trees, and bursting there, spilt and tore them to pieces, and sent the outlaws flying again.
At this moment Jack was startled by a wild yell of:
"Help! Save me!"
He looked around to see where the sound came from, and beheld his three friends buried to their necks in the quicksand.
"Good heavens!" he gasped, as he realized what the outlaws had been doing to them.
"They've tried to murder the boys."
He saw that they were in a bed of quicksand.
Assured that he would not have any immediate trouble from the outlaws, Jack went into the stage and got a hatchet.