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The Pontiac Manuscript
They made her enter the fort, and took her to the commander's house, as if to confront her, and to ask the commander if he had learned their design from her. They were not, however, better satisfied than if they had kept quiet. They received from the commander bread and beer for themselves and for her, and took her to their chiefs in their village. It was now a question in the village to invent some new trick for masking their treason and bring their evil project to an end. Pontiac, whose genius always furnished new resources, said that he had thought out another scheme which would succeed. better than the first, and that on the following day he would go to work.
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