man. The Professor had him present at one of the trials for theft of a
petty nature, which occurred a few days after his arrival.

He was surprised to find that any notice should be taken of such a
trivial affair. The Professor, commenting on it at the trial, which he
did particularly for the benefit of Marmo, said: "It is not the amount
of the theft, but the act itself, which we must condemn. If you could
have taken a larger amount you would have done so, and you must learn
that the property you took did not belong to you but the some one else,
and that is just as much a crime as though you took all the man
possessed."

That was sufficient for his first lesson in justice. "But," he asked of
the Professor, "can all men be guilty of doing wrong?"

"Can you do wrong?"

"Yes."

"But you are a Great Chief, and how can you do wrong in taking things
from your people?"

"Because the people own the things, just as much as you own the things
which you have properly obtained."

"Then if you do wrong, will you be punished?"

"Yes; just the same as the people who do wrong. My punishment should be
greater, if I do wrong, because I should set them an example to do
right."

"But how can I do wrong if I take anything from my people? I own
everything."

"Who gave everything to you? By what right should you or I own
everything? Because we are chiefs does not give us the right to own
everything."

"Then how can the chiefs ever own anything?"'

"They should work for it like everyone else does."

"Do you work like the others do?"

"Yes; I oversee the work of others and try to make them happy, and see
that no one is idle and that the laws are obeyed. For that work I am
paid, just as the others are paid for the work they do. I do this work
because my people ask me to do so, and they pay me a certain number of
coins for the work, the same as the man is paid for the particular work
he does."

This doctrine, so entirely new, could not be grasped at once, and he
continued with his questionings: "But the people may not want me as
their chief, and take some one else, and that would cause trouble, and
no one would know who was chief."

"Then it becomes your duty to so conduct yourself that they will not
want some one else to be chief. If a man works for me and he does not
know or care how he does the work, or is careless, and I cannot depend
on him, I get somebody else in his place. Would you keep such a man?"

"No; but I wo