CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 10
Everyone looked at Lenny.
"Quicksand is just a kind of soup made of sand and water," he explained.
"Beneath the quicksand there's a layer of hard clay or rock.
The quicksand lies on top of that hard stuff because it can't drain out."
"But how far down is the hard layer?" Officer Fallon asked.
"The only way to find out is to get out there in the stuff," Lenny said.
"But if these kids found the antenna sticking up, the jeep must be just beneath the surface of sand."