Of course, he would not tell me.

He was even cross and disrespectful, just as I had expected him to be, so I allowed myself to become angry and killed him, thinking he was much better dead than alive.

But after the sea devil was destroyed, what was my surprise to find that all these years he had been lying over a round hole in the rock and covering it with his scarlet body! "A light shone through this hole, so I thrust my head in and found a great domed cave underneath with a splendid silver castle built at the bottom.

You, my friends, were at that moment swimming toward me as fast as you could come, and the monster Zog, my enemy for centuries past, was close behind you.

Well, the rest of the story you know.