eleven o'clock
To do this he had resort to a very familiar , we may say time-honored , prescription -- rum . He did not use it after the voudou fashion ; the voudous pour it on the ground -- Agricola was an anti-voudou . It finally had its effect . By eleven o'clock he seemed , outwardly at least , to be at peace with everything in Louisiana that he considered Louisianian , properly so-called ; as to all else he was ready for war , as in peace one should be . While in this mood , and performing at a sideboard the solemn rite of _ las onze _ , news incidentally reached him , by the mouth of his busy second , Hippolyte , of Frowenfeld 's trouble , and despite ` Polyte 's protestations against the principal in a pending `` affair '' appearing on the street , he ordered the carriage and hurried to the apothecary 's . * * * * * When Frowenfeld awoke , the fingers of his clock were passing the meridan . His fever was gone , his brain was calm , his strength in good measure had returned .