Crossword-Solution: CANDELAS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Candelas had already expiated his crime on the scaffold, but Balseiro, who was said to be by far the worst ruffian of the two, had by dint of money, an ally which his comrade did not possess, contrived to save his own life; the punishment of death, to which he was originally sentenced, having been commuted to twenty years’ hard labour in the presidio of Malaga.

The friendship of the unrighteous is never of long duration; the two worthies had it seems quarrelled in prison; Candelas having accused the other of bad faith and an undue appropriation to his own use of the _corpus delicti_ in various robberies which they had committed in company.

Still discourteous, Alicia introduced him to the other girl: "Señor Darlés--my friend, Candelas." Candelas fixed her keen, vivid eyes on the new-comer.

Enrique comes here only because he's Don Manuel's friend." The student nodded assent to this, and Candelas smiled coldly.

Men's names came into it; and Candelas laughed heartily as she reviewed the details of a recent supper she had had.