“That’s queer! How did this pain begin?”
“Why, I was playing with some eels, and just as I touched a red one’s tail, why....”
“Oh, now I understand,” interrupted Globicephalous. “You touched an electric eel. Still, I don’t see how an electric eel comes to be around here. Usually they are found only in rivers. It must have been a lost one. All you can do is just to bear it. In an hour or so it will stop. You have had an electric shock, that’s all.”
“And that eel did it all?”
“Yes; that eel did it all, and the torpedoes can do it, too.”
“But I only touched the eel with a stick.”
“It doesn’t matter. The shock is very strong, so strong that sometimes it may even kill a fish.”
“You are right! The shock is strong!”
“Well, you will be all right. Now jump on my tail. We must return to the rock. Soon Mr. Tursio and Marsovino will be at the meeting place.”
“But are we not far away from that meeting place? I looked all over for it this morning.”