midnight
Le Maudit Pensonneau sprung up and danced with joy when he heard that . Nothing would please him better than to dress as a Puant and carry off a bride . The Cahokians were so used to being raided by the Puants that they would readily believe such an attack had been made . That very week the Puants had galloped at midnight , whooping through the town , and swept off from the common fields a flock of Le Page 's goats and two of Larue 's cattle . One might expect they would hear of such a wedding as Celeste Barbeau 's . Indeed , the people were so tired of the Puants that they had sent urgently to St. Ange de Bellerive asking that soldiers be marched from Fort Chartres to give them military protection . It would be easy enough for the young men to make themselves look like Indians .