noon
He noticed none of these things , but stared ahead , his gaze vacant , the bronze of his face set in the lines of a brown study , his strong capable hands hanging purposeless between his knees . The ride to Mackinaw City was six hours long , and the train in addition lost some ninety minutes ; but in all this distance Thorpe never altered his pose nor his fixed attitude of attention to some inner voice . The car-ferry finally landed them on the southern peninsula . Thorpe descended at Mackinaw City to find that the noon train had gone . He ate lunch at the hotel , -- borrowed a hundred dollars from the agent of Louis Sands , a lumberman of his acquaintance ; and seated himself rigidly in the little waiting room , there to remain until the nine-twenty that night . When the cars were backed down from the siding , he boarded the sleeper . In the doorway stood a disapproving colored porter .