THE GREATEST NAME

In old houses there used to be a ring of keys. The door key, the pantry key, the chest key, the rusty key to the garden gate. Whoever carried the ring knew which key opened which door. And in some houses it was said there was a key that opened every lock. No one had ever seen it. But everyone believed it existed. Children searched for it at the bottom of chests, in the linings of old waistcoats.