"Good!" exclaimed the Su-dic, who had armed all his
followers and had brought with him two copper vessels,
which he carefully set down upon the ground beside him.
"If Coo-ee-oh wants to hide instead of fighting our job
will be easy, for in one of these copper vessels I have
enough poison to kill every fish in the lake."

"Kill them, then, while we have time, and then we can
go home again," advised one of the chief officers.

"Not yet," objected the Su-dic. "The Queen of the
Skeezers has defied me, and I want to get her into my
power, as well as to destroy her magic. She transformed
my poor wife into a Golden Pig, and I must have revenge
for that, whatever else we do."

"Look out!" suddenly exclaimed the officers, pointing
into the lake; "something's going to happen."

From the submerged dome a door opened and something
black shot swiftly out into the water. The door
instantly closed behind it and the dark object cleaved
its way through the water, without rising to the
surface, directly toward the place where the Flatheads
were standing.

"What is that?" Dorothy asked the Lady Aurex.

"That is one of the Queen's submarines," was the
reply. "It is all enclosed, and can move under water.