noon
For hours they swung slowly along . Tarzan of the Apes did not hurry . He tried to draw out the sweet pleasure of that journey with those dear arms about his neck as long as possible , and so he went far south of the direct route to the beach . Several times they halted for brief rests , which Tarzan did not need , and at noon they stopped for an hour at a little brook , where they quenched their thirst , and ate . So it was nearly sunset when they came to the clearing , and Tarzan , dropping to the ground beside a great tree , parted the tall jungle grass and pointed out the little cabin to her . She took him by the hand to lead him to it , that she might tell her father that this man had saved her from death and worse than death , that he had watched over her as carefully as a mother might have done . But again the timidity of the wild thing in the face of human habitation swept over Tarzan of the Apes .