noon
He said that he wanted a rest , and Tarzan , rather than add to the unpleasantness which already made camp life almost unendurable , had permitted the two men to depart without a remonstrance . Upon the following day , however , Schneider affected a feeling of remorse for his action , and set to work with a will upon the skiff . Schmidt also worked good-naturedly , and Lord Greystoke congratulated himself that at last the men had awakened to the necessity for the labour which was being asked of them and to their obligations to the balance of the party . It was with a feeling of greater relief than he had experienced for many a day that he set out that noon to hunt deep in the jungle for a herd of small deer which Schneider reported that he and Schmidt had seen there the day before . The direction in which Schneider had reported seeing the deer was toward the south-west , and to that point the ape-man swung easily through the tangled verdure of the forest . And as he went there approached from the north a half-dozen ill-featured men who went stealthily through the jungle as go men bent upon the commission of a wicked act . They thought that they travelled unseen ; but behind them , almost from the moment they quitted their own camp , a tall man crept upon their trail .