There, on this very evening, he would seize her, drag her before the uuityam, disclose her shameless and dangerous plots, and doom her to the horrible death she deserved to suffer.
Whither was her accomplice, the Tehua, going meanwhile?
He was probably returning to his people to report, and to lead back those in whose company he intended to carry out the projected assault.

The old man could not stop him, being himself unarmed: but he could follow at a distance, cautiously and without exposing himself to danger.

For it was possible that the hellish plot had developed much further, and that the warriors from the north were lurking already near by to pounce upon the Queres at daybreak.

It was not only from the instinct of the old warrior scout, it was out of a sense of duty as head war-chief that he determined at once upon following the Tehua.

As soon as Shotaye, too, was out of sight, he went over to the spot where the interview had taken place and examined the soil carefully.