midday
Not many minutes were consumed in breakfasting , and the raiders were under way by the time the sun was up . All that day the stealthy band crept on , avoiding the trails by which communication was kept up between the settlements . Early in the evening Le Loutre called a halt , and Pierre , exhausted , fell asleep the moment he had satisfied his hunger . Next morning the sun was high ere the party resumed its march , and not long after midday Le Loutre declared they had gone far enough as they were now near the settlement of Kenneticook . There was now nothing to be done but wait for night . A scout was sent forward to reconnoiter , and came back in a couple of hours with word that all was quiet in the little village , and no danger suspected . About nine o'clock the abbé gave his orders .