The rat lengthened itself and expanded until it was once more the giant covered with pumicestone; it walked no longer erect, however, but crawled along the ground at the feet of the beautiful woman, whimpering and howling like a whipped cur.
She then said to it: "At last I possess the emerald circlet, in which resides your power over me.

I can destroy you, but my name is Clementine and so I will grant you mercy.

I will only banish you to your rocks.
There you shall remain until the last hour of the last day.

Papaluka, Papaluka,--Emerald, perform thy duty!" The giant of pumice-stone immediately glowed like molten iron.

Once he raised his clenched fist towards Wendelin, and then plunged into the lake where the hissing and foaming waters closed over him.