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 at the gate and enter . She , too , tied her pony to a poplar , lower down , and then crept stealthily through the willows at the side of the house until she was close to the windows . Through one of them she could see Carey and Elinor . The half-breed girl crouched down in the shadow and glared at her rival . She saw the pretty , fair-tinted face , the fluffy coronal of golden hair , the blue , laughing eyes of the woman whom Jerome Carey loved , and she realized very plainly that there was nothing left to hope for . She , Tannis of the Flats , could never compete with that other . It was well to know so much , at least . After a time , she crept softly away , loosed her pony , and lashed him mercilessly with her whip through the streets of the town and out the long , dusty river trail . A man turned and looked after her as she tore past a brightly lighted store on Water Street . `` That was Tannis of the Flats , '' he said to a companion . `` She was in town last winter , going to school -- a beauty and a bit of the devil , like all those breed girls . What in thunder is she riding like that for ? '' One day , a fortnight later , Carey went over the river alone for a ramble up the northern trail , and an undisturbed dream of Elinor .
When he came back Tannis was standing XXXXX the canoe landing , under a pine tree , in a rain of finely sifted sunlight .
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