about eleven o'clock
The morning lessons were to continue as usual , but those for the after part of the day were to be dispensed with . The matron did the boys ' packing , so that there were no especial calls upon their time before leaving . `` Henderson , are you ill ? '' asked Dr. Leacraft , coming into the junior class-room about eleven o'clock , and noticing that Charlie Henderson , the youngest boy in the school and a pattern scholar , was deathly pale , and supporting his head upon his hand . The boy was subject to frightful headaches , which for the time unfitted him for all study or recitation ; and Seabrooke , who was hearing the lesson in progress , had excused him from taking any part in it . These headaches were of few hours duration ; but the boy needed absolute rest and quiet to enable him to conquer them . As he lifted his heavy , suffering eyes to the doctor 's face , Seabrooke answered for him .