Near by floated the submarine in which the Queen had come, but the Skeezers who were in it were puzzled what to do with themselves.

Perhaps they were not sorry their cruel mistress had been transformed into a Diamond Swan, but the transformation had left them quite helpless.

The under-water boat was not operated by machinery, but by certain mystic words uttered by Coo-ee-oh.

They didn't know how to submerge it, or how to make the water-tight shield cover them again, or how to make the boat go back to the castle, or make it enter the little basement room where it was usually kept.

As a matter of fact, they were now shut out of their village under the Great Dome and could not get back again.