From time to time she attempted a word of conversation; she smiled and gesticulated, but the only response was a shaking of the head and facial expressions that denoted suspicion rather than friendship.
Teanyi had informed the tuyo that he had met a woman from the Rito de los Frijoles and had taken her to his home, or rather to that of his wife; that the woman was gesticulating in an unintelligible manner; and that all he could surmise was that there might be Queres approaching the Puye with hostile intentions.

He said nothing about Cayamo and his relations toward Shotaye, for Cayamo had enjoined absolute secrecy.
The governor of the Tehuas was a different man from the pompous little tapop of the Queres.

The latter would at once have called the council and done everything to surround the event and his own person with as much noise as possible.

Not so the tuyo of the Puye.

He only said, "I will go with you," and went to the room of Teanyi's wife to see Shotaye and investigate for himself.
The gesticulations began again, and the woman used every effort to make herself understood.