midnight
Come ! If they suffer no more for the balance of the day they will feel reassured , and the relapse into fear will be even more nerve-racking than as though we continued to frighten them all afternoon . '' So they marched back to their camp of the previous night , and , lighting great fires , ate and recounted the adventures of the day until long after dark . Tarzan slept until midnight , then he arose and crept into the Cimmerian blackness of the forest . An hour later he came to the edge of the clearing before the village . There was a camp-fire burning within the palisade . The ape-man crept across the clearing until he stood before the barred gates .