In a few days the Iroquois went out again to visit his tribe.  Desiring to revisit his mother’s grave he required some one to assist him down the river.  He selected as his companion Francis DeFalt who appeared willing to accompany him.  On the way down he found out from DeFalt, that he was one of the Indians who by Thoma’s commands set fire to the Englishman’s house and store.  DeFalt bragged about what he had done and said his only sorrow was, that all the white devils were not burned up with the house.

As DeFalt was speaking, the Iroquois blood began to stir quickly.  As soon as darkness was closing down over the face of the river Paul meditated on revenge.  He seized Chief Mag, which he always took with him, and fired it at DeFalt, who turning a complete somerset over the bow of the canoe into the river, was seen no more.  Paul drifted down stream a few miles, paddled to the shore, hauled the canoe upon dry land, turned it over and slept under it during the night, feeling satisfied that he had avenged the insult to the pale-faces.  Paul remained about the old camping ground for three weeks, when he again returned to Grimross.  The Iroquois was never suspected as the cause of Thoma’s disappearance, the canoe was afterwards found, bottom up, in the river, and he was supposed to have been drowned.

On Paul’s return to his tribe, he told the Indians that DeFalt had become acquainted with a pretty young squaw named Charlotte Toney, and had gone over to Fort Cumberland to spend a few months with the Toney family, who were moving over there to settle during the coming winter, and that DeFalt would likely be married before his return.  The Iroquois shortly after this returned to Grimross to spend a few days with his pale-faced friends.  He told Margaret that some of the tribe were greatly agitated.  The American sympathisers had seduced them by making great promises and by holding up to them a grand future.  Paul said to Captain Godfrey, “you may all be murdered if you stay at Grimross; some bad white men now among Indians.”  Margaret did not care to advise her husband to leave, although she had learnt enough from Paul to convince her that great danger was all about them.

The Iroquois had proposed to Margaret to escape with her children to Fort Frederick, saying that he would take them down the river in DeFalt’s canoe, which he had kept at Grimross.  He said to her, “I will never leave you in times of trouble and will lose my life to save yours.”  She would not consent to leave her husband, although he strongly advised her to go, if she thought their lives in danger.