Drying Ollie’s clothes that night, the pair resolve to return under the cover of darkness to complete their mission. After a series of mishaps (including the mule being belayed onto a balcony and Stan stretching Ollie's neck three feet as he tries to free him from a trapdoor) they finally make it inside the saloon, where Stan finds Mary and explains the situation to her, and she decides to leave with them. Mickey discovers them, but Ollie manages to grab Mickey's shotgun and force him to give the deed back. Stan, Ollie, and Mary escape town, trapping Mickey and Lola inside the saloon by locking the front gate and entangling Mickey's head in the gate grill. Outside the town, the boys agree to accompany Mary back to her hometown in the South, and the happy trio sing "We're Going to Go Way Down in Dixie" as they ride away on the mule. Once again, fording the river, Ollie falls into the sink hole.