noon
We have joyful news , both in regard to your brother , and the Village of Peace . Let us go in to tell the others . '' The Huron runner 's report proved to be correct . Shortly before noon signals from Indian scouts proclaimed the approach of a band of white men . Evidently Girty 's forces had knowledge beforehand of the proximity of this band , for the signals created no excitement . The Indians expressed only a lazy curiosity . Soon several Delaware scouts appeared , escorting a large party of frontiersmen .