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Updated: June 29, 2025
For an instant Everychild's heart was troubled. "Isn't it a good road to walk on?" he asked. Aladdin's reply was: "It is called The Road of Troubled Children." Everychild thought a moment. That was a strange name, certainly. "It seems a little lonely," he ventured, thinking that perhaps Aladdin would explain why he did not like the road.
Nor did the giant fail to note that Everychild was in distress, and at this he regained something of his boldness. In a loud, terrible voice he spoke to Everychild: "Ah ha! And so you were getting ready to defy me hey?" Everychild's teeth chattered as he replied: "Please go away!" The giant nodded exultantly.
They had seen the sword in Everychild's hand, and they had recognized it! Moreover, before the gleam of that sword the temple door swung open. The giant dashed into the temple to greet his mother. He became for an instant invisible. The devotees were now slinking back to a safe distance. Everychild, without ever lowering his sword, smote them all with his glance of scorn.
And the furious creature blew out the candle on the mantel and left the room. You could hear her slam the door. A faint cry of distress came from the locked closet: "Mother mother!" In the darkness Everychild's voice could be heard speaking cautiously, "Wait, Cinderella wait until I can make a light." The voice from the closet was heard again: "Mother mother!"
The sergeant disappeared, and almost immediately there was the sound of a bugle blowing on the castle wall. The king and queen went out, followed by their train-bearers, pages and others. Everychild hesitated; but the Sleeping Beauty, with a reassuring nod, took his hand, and they followed. There was a moment's confusion among Everychild's companions; but they speedily got themselves into line.
For an instant she gazed dreamily at the ceiling. Then she sat up, placing her feet on the floor. With wonder and delight she leaned a little forward, her eyes fixed on Everychild's. And then she said, in a voice which would have set the birds to singing, if there had been any near by "Is it you, my prince? You have waited a long while!"
The little boy was about to reply when something almost alarming happened. The little boy slipped his hand away from Everychild's and shrank back until he was hiding behind Cinderella's skirt. An astonishing head and shoulders appeared above the top of the shoe! The Old Woman who Lived in the Shoe had heard them. She remained perched in her place, glaring severely about the yard below.
The giant began dreamily "There ought to be some way . . ." Everychild's eyes brightened. "If we could only open the toe of the shoe though of course we couldn't!" "We could," declared the giant. They went forward stealthily. Will o'Dreams following the example of Everychild and moving without a sound.
And so I must go on owning the lamp and being unhappy." But Everychild found much of this simply bewildering. "Just the same," he said after a pause, "it must be very nice to have a lamp to rub, so that you may have so many things you really want." He immediately regretted having said this; for Aladdin took up his lamp. "Very well," he said, placing the lamp in Everychild's hands.
And then Everychild's voice: "I must make a light, so that I can find the key!" For the last time Cinderella's voice could be heard faintly "Mother!" And then there was the calm voice of the Masked Lady: "Now you can see!" The room was lighted again! The Masked Lady had arisen from her place. She was holding the lighted candle above her head. Not a second was wasted by Everychild.
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