Crossword-Solution: CHALLIS 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

CHALLIS THE DOUBTER The White Lady And The Brown Woman Four years had come and gone since the day that Challis, with a dull and savage misery in his heart, had, cursing the love-madness which once possessed him, walked out from his house in an Australian city with an undefined and vague purpose of going "somewhere" to drown his sense of wrong and erase from his memory the face of the woman who, his wife of not yet a year, had played with her honour and his.

She really liked Challis in her own small-souled way--principally because his money had given her the social pleasures denied her during her girlhood.

And because Nalia, thy wife, is away at the other White Man's house no woman cometh inside the door." Challis laughed.

None but a fool desires to eat a dried flying-fish when a fresh one may be had." "O wise man with the shaven crown," said Challis, with mocking good nature, "thou art full of wisdom of the ways of women.

Two girls who came with her carried baskets of cooked food, presents from old Jack Kelly, Challis's fellow-trader.