6:30
`` Oh , yes , '' said Riddell ; `` he 's captain of the eleven ; I must . '' `` Hurrah . Well , you 'll have to turn up at the Big practices , of course , during the next three days . There 's one at three this afternoon and another at 6:30 , and if you like to come down for an hour after first school I 'll give you some balls at the nets . '' This was Tuesday . The Rockshire match was to come off on Saturday , and between now and then , as Riddell well knew , every spare moment he could call his own would have to be devoted to cricket . Personally , with the burden of the secret of young Wyndham 's knife upon him , he would have been glad enough of some excuse for avoiding the honour even of a place in the first eleven .