Noon came and no sign of the enemy.

Willet began to think the attack would be postponed until night, as St.Luc doubtless had learned already that he could not carry the place by surprise.

But he relied most upon the word of Black Rifle who had not yet returned from the forest.

The dark scout came back about the middle of the afternoon, and he told Colden and Willet that he had seen nothing of Daganoweda and his Mohawks, though there were indications in the forest that they had defeated the Hurons the night before.

But St.Luc Was at hand, not much more than a mile away, where he had pitched a camp.