about six o'clock in the morning
Thorpe walked through the silent group of men without seeing them . He had no thought for what he had done , but for the triumphant discovery he had made in spite of himself . This he saw at once as something to glory in and as a duty to be fulfilled . It was then about six o'clock in the morning . Thorpe passed the boarding-house , the store , and the office , to take himself as far as the little open shed that served the primitive town as a railway station . There he set the semaphore to flag the east-bound train from Duluth . At six thirty-two , the train happening on time , he climbed aboard .