When Hawkeye sees Miss Parrish, the new governess of Colonel Sanford's son. He gets suspicious.
Hawkeye has seen her before, she was then Miss Adams and is a notorious woman.
Miss Parrish is in league with ambitious Kubaka, a native Indian who is stirring up other tribes to see off the settlers.
She plans to raise the spectre of a dead Indian war chief Pontiac. Luckily Miss Parrish found a ringer who is also a mute.
Miss Parrish tortures Hawkeye and Chingachgook so she can find the arsenal that Colonel Sanford has hidden.
There is a clever ploy Hawkeye uses so Miss Parrish reveals her true nature to the Iroquois. She certainly caved in easily.
There was some location shooting and the sound echo surely testifies to that.