taken and had n't.

"He kept it up for three weeks. Part of the time he was with the
Indians, part in Virginia City, and part in Carson. How he managed to
escape arrest is more than I can tell, and how it happened that he did
n't massacre the whole population of Nevada is still more of a mystery.
He had fights with Indians and with whites, with men who were drunk and
men who were sober, and they drew guns, knives, and fists. But Johnson
didn't get hurt, and nobody else got killed.

"After it was all over and he had sobered up, Johnson came to me and he
was so repentant and humiliated that, I declare, I never felt so sorry
for anybody in all my life. He thought it was all up with him, that he
had ruined all his good repute and influence, that nobody would ever
believe him, or trust him, or respect him after that, and that it was
quite useless for him to try to be a good Indian again. Of course he
did n't put it in so many words--he expressed more by gestures and
looks and grunts than by words--but that was the meaning of it all.

"I felt so sorry for him that I made up my mind I 'd give him a lift;
and as I began to talk and try to encourage him I had an inspiration
that was just the thing.

"'Don't you be so discouraged, Johnson,' I said. 'We can make things
all right again. We 'll get the Legislature to repeal this drunk of
yours and that'll set you right up where you were before. I 'm going
over to Carson to-morrow, and I 'll have the Legislature make a law
that will wipe out the whole business and fix everything for you as if
you had n't been drunk at all.'