noon
Her home was not likely to be visited by any one for a number of days , and when the warriors of the Queres were on the march nobody would call them back because she had disappeared from the Rito . Perfectly at rest in regard to her own future , reassured as to the fate of Say Koitza , Shotaye had , on the night of the second day after the murder of Topanashka , left her home and climbed to the northern mesa without meeting any obstacle . When the sun rose , she found herself quite near the place which Cayamo , as far as she understood , had designated as the spot where his friend Teanyi would wait for her . Unacquainted with the real distance that separates the Rito from the cave-dwellings above Santa Clara , she had underrated it ; and it was only at noon , after she had spent hours walking through the pine timber and in fruitless waiting , that a man stepped up to her from behind a tree and called out , -- `` Teanyi ! '' Then he added , `` Cayamo , '' and inquired , `` Shotaye ? '' He was the looked-for and longed-for delegate ; and when the sun stood at its height , the two were travelling toward the Puye together . Shotaye attempted to convey the idea to her companion that the Queres were upon the point of moving upon the Tehuas in force .