"Johnson was delighted, but he did n't feel quite sure about it. So I
had to make him understand that I knew what I was talking about.

"'It's all straight,' I said. 'They do that every session for
somebody. Why, So-and-So'--and I mentioned the name of a prominent
citizen--'was on an awful drunk last winter; and just as soon as he
sobered up he went right over to Carson and had the Legislature pass a
bill repealing his spree, and you know that he is just as much
respected as he was before. I'll attend to your business myself
to-morrow, and then I 'll publish the whole thing in the paper and
everybody will read it and know that you are all right again. But you
must remember one thing, Johnson,' I said. 'You must remember that as
you are an Indian the Legislature can't do this for you more than once.
If you were a white man you could have as many drunks repealed as you
wanted. But being an Indian this is your last chance, and you must
keep straight after this.'

"Well, the upshot of it was that Johnson put his trust in me; and I
flatter myself that I was just the man he needed in the emergency. You
've lived in the West, and you know what the Nevada Legislature is, and
always has been. There never was one that you couldn't count on to do
anything under the sun that tickled its sense of humor. I thought that
bill about Johnson's drunk would strike 'em in just about the right
place, and it did. They dropped everything else and sent it through
with a hurrah.

"There was a long preamble, telling about Johnson Sides's prominence
and influence and the great importance of his retaining the high
position in the respect of the community which he had won, and about
the misfortune into which he had fallen, and how it was the universal