This would sail next morning, at four o'clock--and in the meantime we would be searched for, but not with avidity; and if we were in the Territory after that stage-coach left, we would be the first victims of the new law.

Judge North was anxious to have some object-lessons for that law, and he would absolutely keep us in the prison the full two years.
Well, it seemed to me that our society was no longer desirable in Nevada; so we stayed in our quarters and observed proper caution all day--except that once Steve went over to the hotel to attend to another customer of mine.

That was a Mr.Cutler.You see Laird was not the only person whom I had tried to reform during my occupancy of the editorial chair.

I had looked around and selected several other people, and delivered a new zest of life into them through warm criticism and disapproval--so that when I laid down my editorial pen I had four horse-whippings and two duels owing to me.

We didn't care for the horse-whippings; there was no glory in them; they were not worth the trouble of collecting.