Quotation from: Lost Continent

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Go to your mother, the queen, and ask her to come to me," I
said. "I have a favor to ask."

She said that she would, and with a parting smile she left
me.

For what seemed many hours I awaited her return, chafing
with impatience. The afternoon wore on and night came, and
yet no one came near me. My captors brought me neither food
nor water. I was suffering considerable pain where the
rawhide thongs cut into my swollen flesh. I thought that
they had either forgotten me, or that it was their intention
to leave me here to die of starvation.