Baum, Frank | The Queen of Zixi

So Queen Zixi, under the name of Adlena, became an inmate of the king's palace, and it was not many days before she learned where the magic cloak was kept.

But the princess gave her a key to a drawer and told her to get from it a blue silk scarf she wis hed to wear, and directly under the scarf lay the fairy garment.

Adlena would have seized it at that moment had she dared, but Fluff was in the same room, so she only said, "Please, princess, may I look at that pretty cloak?"

"Of course," answered Fluff, "but handle it carefully, for it was given me by the fairies."

So Adlena unfolded the cloak and looked at it very carefully, noting exactly the manner in which it was woven. Then she folded it again, arranged it in the drawer, and turned the key, which the princess immediately attached to a chain which she always w ore around her neck.

That night, when the witch-queen was safely locked in her own room and could not be disturbed, she called about her a great many of those invisible imps that serve the most skillful witches,