Assassin's Creed III Question

[FatalityStriker]

SPOILER ALERT!!!

 

Okay, so if you've played ACIII, you should remember that around sequence five, or six, or maybe even seven, Connor puts a hoe, or some kind of tool, into the pole outside of Achilles' front door. He says it isn't removed until the threat is gone. After he said that I was all like "Oh,oh,oh! In the end of the game, I bet he'll be all beat up and half dead walking up to the house after claiming victory, and he'll remove the thing from the pole and then the credits will begin. So, in the end of the game, he was all beat up and half dead, and then he killed Charles Lee, and I thought for sure he would return to the house to do what I expected, but he didn't. Or at least I don't remember him doing it. So I'm wondering, did he ever remove the tool from the pole? If not, he probably will in a later game like Assassin's Creed Revelations was for Ezio.

 

But did he or did he not remove the tool?