"But I advise you to pay no attention to them.

Remember, they cannot touch us." In order to avoid the threatening arms overhead, which followed them as they swam, our friends kept near to the bottom of the sea, which was here thickly covered with rough and jagged rocks.

The inky water had now been left far behind, but when Trot looked over her shoulder, she shuddered to find a great crimson monster following closely after them, with a dozen long, snaky feelers stretched out as if to grab anyone that lagged behind.

And there, at the side of Princess Clia, was another devil, leering silently with his cruel, bulging eyes at the pretty mermaid.

Beside the queen swam still another of their enemies.