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The enemy would require , even with their teams , a day to cover the thirty miles to the fishing village of Munising , whence the stage ran each morning to Seney , the present terminal of the South Shore Railroad . He , Thorpe , on foot and three hours behind , could never have caught the stage . But from Seney only one train a day was despatched to connect at Mackinaw City with the Michigan Central , and on that one train , due to leave this very morning , the up-river man was just about pulling out . He would arrive at Mackinaw City at four o'clock of the afternoon , where he would be forced to wait until eight in the evening . By catching a boat at the mill to which Injin Charley had led him , Thorpe could still make the same train . Thus the start in the race for Detroit 's Land Office would be fair . `` All right , '' he cried , all his energy returning to him .