Saturday noon
Perhaps in the inscrutable way of Providence the estrangement was of benefit , -- even necessary , for it had thrown him entirely within himself during his militant years . Let us rather look to the end of the summer . It now became a question of re-opening the camps . Thorpe wrote to Shearer and Radway , whom he had retained , that he would arrive on Saturday noon , and suggested that the two begin to look about for men . Friday , himself , Wallace Carpenter , Elizabeth Carpenter , Morton , Helen Thorpe , and Hilda Farrand boarded the north-bound train . The train of the South Shore Railroad shot its way across the broad reaches of the northern peninsula . On either side of the right-of-way lay mystery in the shape of thickets so dense and overgrown that the eye could penetrate them but a few feet at most .