noon
The following morning Abdul Mourak was enraged and chagrined to discover that his huge , black prisoner had escaped during the night , while Werper was terrified for the same reason , until his trembling fingers discovered the pouch still in its place beneath his shirt , and within it the hard outlines of its contents . Tarzan Again Leads the Mangani Achmet Zek with two of his followers had circled far to the south to intercept the flight of his deserting lieutenant , Werper . Others had spread out in various directions , so that a vast circle had been formed by them during the night , and now they were beating in toward the center . Achmet and the two with him halted for a short rest just before noon . They squatted beneath the trees upon the southern edge of a clearing . The chief of the raiders was in ill humor . To have been outwitted by an unbeliever was bad enough ; but to have , at the same time , lost the jewels upon which he had set his avaricious heart was altogether too much -- Allah must , indeed be angry with his servant .