"The Flatheads are not here yet," said Lady Aurex.
But it proves the Flatheads are coming to attack us."
The path which the Flatheads used was some distance away.
Afterward we can visit the mountain and punish the cruel magician of the Flatheads."
Did Coo-ee-oh come here in the boat to meet the Flatheads before the island was sunk, or afterward?"
"They would have no homes and no place to go, and would be at the mercy of their enemies, the Flatheads."
I think," she continued, "that our Queen fears the Flatheads will attack the island and try to break the glass of the dome."
The Flatheads, pushing their way through the line of palm trees, had reached the shore of the lake just as the top of the island's dome disappeared beneath the surface.
Coo-ee-oh has several of these boats which are kept in little rooms in the basement under our village. When the island is submerged, the Queen uses these boats to reach the shore, and I believe she now intends to fight the Flatheads with them."