It would be good if I could write that this had a happy ending, that Purple got young Blue Tentacles away from moral danger, that they both lived a free and wholesome life together as father and son somewhere else. All too often real life doesn’t have a happy ending and it didn’t end happily for our two either. There would certainly have been a stronger bond between them if they had known that they were father and son but they didn't know. What did former slave Purple do? He wasn’t used to taking decisions for himself and the Old Tramp, Brown Tentacles had promised to help them escape. The submarine surfaced very briefly while Purple picked the Tramp up at a pre-arranged spot, then the boat dived again and rushed swiftly but smoothly on towards some coastal swamps, hundreds of kilometres a