nine
o'clock in the morning
So , I 've given orders that they stay upstairs and keep at it . It looks like we wo n't have a guilty or not guilty until tomorrow . The prisoner will go back upstairs to his cell . Court will open at nine o'clock in the morning . '' Auguste heard the rear door of the courtroom slam and knew without looking around that Raoul had left . That night Auguste lay on his corn-husk mattress wondering whether he should try to run away when they took him out . To be shot while trying to escape might be more honorable than hanging .