nine o'clock in the morning
He was also , positive that there were three figures in the front seat ! Who was the extra person ? was the question that flashed into the minds of the listeners . A small boy came to the schoolhouse at nine o'clock in the morning with ` Rast Little 's new derby hat . He had picked it up at the roadside not far from the schoolhouse and in the direction taken by the Farnsworth party . Anderson gave orders that no word of the catastrophe be carried to Rosalie , who was reported to be ill of a fever the next morning after the spelling-bee . She had a cough , and the doctor had said that nothing should be said or done to excite her .