About nine o'clock
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 . Not a soul in the village was to be spared , and not a house left standing . The enemy were to be destroyed , root and branch , and the English were to receive a lesson that would drive them in terror within the shelter of the Halifax stockades . In a few minutes the party was on the march , and moving now with the greatest secrecy and care .