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So the Criminal with a Crown came to the end of his resources. He / had told his last lie, but not even his servants would believe it. / He had made his last threat, but no living soul feared it. He had / put forth his last stroke of violence and cruelty, but it fell / short.
When he saw his own image reflected in the eyes of men, and knew / what he had done to the world and what had come of his evil design, / he was afraid, and cried, "Let the Earth swallow me! " And the Earth / opened, and swallowed him.