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At Last

CHAPTER VIII: LA BREA
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Juan Bono was very anxious to see the roof on, and the Indians continued to work at the building with alacrity.

At last it was completed, being two storeys high, and so constructed that those within could not see those without.

Upon a certain day, Juan Bono collected the Indians together--men, women, and children--in the building, "to see," as he told them, "what was to be done." 'Whether they thought they were coming to some festival, or that they were to do something more for the great house, does not appear.

However, there they all were, four hundred of them, looking with much delight at their own handiwork.

Meanwhile, Juan Bono brought his men round the building, with drawn swords in their hands; then, having thoroughly entrapped his Indian friends, he entered with a party of armed men and bade the Indians keep still, or he would kill them.


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