about one o'clock in the morning
After ample feasting , as became one who had come so far , he lay upon soft deerskins in one of the bark huts and sought sleep . But Braxton Wyatt , the renegade , could not sleep . His evil spirit warned him to rise and go to the huts , where the two remaining prisoners were kept . It was then about one o'clock in the morning , and as he passed he saw the Onondaga runner at the door of one of the prison lodges . He was about to cry out , but the Onondaga turned and struck him such a violent blow with the butt of a pistol , snatched from under his deerskin tunic , that he fell senseless . When a Mohawk sentinel found and revived him an hour later , the door of the hut was open , and the oldest of the prisoners , the one called Ross , was gone . Now , indeed , were the Iroquois certain that the Spirit of Evil was among them .