noon
Together they left the tent . At the door Rokoff could not resist the temptation to turn and fling a parting taunt at Tarzan . `` Sleep well , monsieur , '' he said , `` and do not forget to pray well , for when you die tomorrow it will be in such agony that you will be unable to pray for blaspheming . '' No one had bothered to bring Tarzan either food or water since noon , and consequently he suffered considerably from thirst . He wondered if it would be worth while to ask his guard for water , but after making two or three requests without receiving any response , he decided that it would not . Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar . How much safer one was , he soliloquized , in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men .