Chapter 6 Summary

At midnight, the ark reaches the castle. The girls go in and go to bed while the men discuss their plans. The first task is to find all the hidden canoes on shore so that the Iroquois will be unable to reach the castle. The three of them manage to find all the canoes and pull them to the center of the lake, hoping that they will not be able to drift to shore before the morning. After accomplishing this, they go to find the Iroquois encampment.

Deerslayer stays in the canoe while Harry and Hutter go in search of scalps. He paddles near the castle and waits for Harry's signal. Instead of hearing the signal, he hears a woman scream. Deerslayer paddles near the shore, not sure what he should do. He hears Harry's voice and realizes that the two men have...