Carey looked stupidly at Tannis . `` Send for her , '' he said . Tannis smiled cruelly . `` There is no way . The wires are down , and there is no man at the Flats who will go to town to-night , '' she answered . `` My God , I MUST see her before I die , '' burst out Carey pleadingly . `` Where is Father Gabriel ? HE will go . '' `` The priest went to town last night and has not come back , '' said Tannis . Carey groaned and shut his eyes . If Father Gabriel was away , there was indeed no one to go . Old Auguste and the doctor could not leave Paul and he knew well that no breed of them all at the Flats would turn out on such a night , even if they were not , one and all , mortally scared of being mixed up in the law and justice that would be sure to follow the affair . He must die without seeing Elinor . Tannis looked inscrutably down on the pale face on Mrs. Joe Esquint 's dirty pillows . Her immobile features gave no sign of the conflict raging within her . After a short space she turned and went out , shutting the door softly on the wounded man and Mrs. Joe , whose howls had now simmered down to whines . In the next room , Paul was crying out with pain as the doctor worked on his arm , but Tannis did not go to him . Instead , she slipped out and hurried down the stormy street to old Auguste 's stable . Five minutes later she was galloping down the black , wind-lashed river trail , on her way to town , to bring Elinor Blair to her lover 's deathbed . I hold that no woman ever did anything more unselfish than this deed of Tannis !
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