A JUDGE was awakened by the noise of a lawyer punishing a Thief.
Rising in anger he was about to sentence the
Thief to life imprisonment when the latter said:
"I beg that you will set me free, and I will
some day requite your kindness."
Pleased and flattered to be bribed, although by
nothing but an empty promise, the Judge let him
go.
Soon afterward he found that it was more than an empty promise, for, having become a Thief, he was himself set free by the other, who had become a Judge.