ten o'clock
`` Why , I stayed with the Crumps the first night that I was in Almaville . And it is their little Henry in trouble . I 'll help the little fellow out , '' said she . Tiara observed that little Henry 's case was set for ten o'clock that morning and it was then nine . She dispatched a note to Ensal , who immediately responded in person to accompany her to the place of the trial . `` This , '' said Ensal , `` is but a symptom of a growing disease . In the days before the war the young master and the Negro boys played together and there was undoubtedly a strong tie of personal friendship between the slaveholding class and the Negroes on their plantation .