 Enormous legs were coming up out of the pool, scrambling at the rock, slipping, slipping, and tearing away great chunks of the weed... a thing like a vast, brown, shell-encrusted dish-cover, as big as an ordinary old-fashioned oval mahogany table, began to rise up out of the pool...The two manage to rescue the priestess, steal a handful of pearls, and fight their way free.But,

...when they came to look for the little brown woman, she had gone.