[CHAPTER XX.]
Kasper Crabtree falls among Thieves.
“All vice in which man yields in greed to do it,
Or soon or late, be sure he’ll sorely rue it.
Experience deep, howe’er false seemings blind him,
Surcharged with retribution, out will find him.
The whole creation’s strange and endless dealing,
In spite of shields and veils and arts concealing,