While thus engaged, the gong at the door sounded and Sacho entered.
"My diabolical master commands you to attend him," said the boy.
"When ?" asked Aquareine.
"At once, your Majesty." "Very well, we will follow you," she said.

So they swam down the corridors following Sacho until they again reached the golden-domed room they had formerly visited.

Here sat Zog just as they had left him, seemingly, but when his prisoners entered, the magician arose and stood upon his cloven feet and then silently walked to a curtained archway.
Sacho commanded the prisoners to follow, and beyond the archway they found a vast chamber that occupied the center of the castle and was as big as a ballroom.

Zog, who seemed to walk with much difficulty because his ungainly body swayed back and forth, did not go far beyond the arched entrance.

A golden throne was set nearby, and in this the monster seated himself.