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.
At length the Rebels and Red men grew furious.