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The Pontiac Manuscript
This he did only to have a chance of concocting some other bad design. About five o'clock in the afternoon, Pontiac called Messrs. Godfroy and Ohapoton and several other Frenchmen to his camp and told them that he had appeased his young people and that they consented to peace, but in order to conclude it well, they would feel flattered to speak to Mr. Campbell, the second commander in their camp, because they knew him since the three years that he commanded at the fort and regarded him as their brother. But the barbarian hid in his bosom a dagger which should become fatal to this honest man. The Frenchmen, who did not know what he had in mind, and who believed that he spoke frankly, said to him that they would gladly undertake to fetch him if he (Pontiac) would promise them to let him return without insulting him when they should have done.
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