"Seems to me the Skeezers are in luck to lose their cruel Queen." "If that were all you would be right," responded Lady Aurex; "and if the island were above water it would not be so serious.

But here we all are, at the bottom of the lake, and fast prisoners in this dome." "Can't you raise the island ?" inquired Dorothy.
"No.

Only Coo-ee-oh knew how to do that," was the answer.
"We can try," insisted Dorothy.

"If it can be made to go down, it can be made to come up.

The machinery is still here, I suppose.
"Yes; but the machinery works by magic, and Coo-ee-oh would never share her secret power with any one of us." Dorothy's face grew grave; but she was thinking.
"Ozma knows a lot of magic," she said.
"But not that kind of magic," Ozma replied.
"Can't you learn how, by looking at the machinery ?" "I'm afraid not, my dear.