He could never have got her , and he knew it -- old Auguste and young Paul would have incontinently riddled him with bullets had he ventured near the house as a suitor , -- but he hated Carey none the less , and watched for a chance to do him an ill-turn . There is no worse enemy in all the world than a half-breed . Your true Indian is bad enough , but his diluted descendant is ten times worse . As for Tannis , she loved Carey with all her heart , and that was all there was about it . If Elinor Blair had never gone to Prince Albert there is no knowing what might have happened , after all . Carey , so powerful in propinquity , might even have ended by learning to love Tannis and marrying her , to his own worldly undoing . But Elinor did go to Prince Albert , and her going ended all things for Tannis of the Flats . Carey met her one evening in September , when he had ridden into town to attend a dance , leaving Paul Dumont in charge of the telegraph office . Elinor had just arrived in Prince Albert on a visit to Tom , to which she had been looking forward during the five years since he had married and moved out West from Avonlea . As I have already said , she was very beautiful at that time , and Carey fell in love with her at the first moment of their meeting . During the next three weeks he went to town nine times and called at the Dumonts ' only once . There were no more rides and walks with Tannis . This was not intentional neglect on his part . He had simply forgotten all about her . The breeds surmised a lover 's quarrel , but Tannis understood . There was another woman back there in town . It would be quite impossible to put on paper any adequate idea of her emotions at this stage . One night , she followed Carey when he went to Prince Albert , riding out of earshot , behind him on her plains pony , but keeping him in sight . Lazarre , in a fit of jealousy , had followed Tannis , spying on her until she started back to the Flats . After that he watched both Carey and Tannis incessantly , and months later had told Tom all he had learned through his low sneaking .
Tannis trailed Carey to the Blair house , on the bluffs above the town , and saw him tie his horse XXXXX the gate and enter .
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