Crossword-Solution: OOLA 4 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

For Wombo, tweaking aside the concealing blanket, showed the smooth shaft of a spear transfixed in the quivering flesh of Oola's arm, above the elbow.

But hard as he was--and Lady Bridget had learned that her husband could be very hard, he would never be inhuman, and, naturally, Oola's wound must be dressed.

When Oola's arm and Wombo's gashed head had been washed and bandaged, the trouble was to know what to do with the pair.

Lady Bridget gathered that Oola's husband was a medicine man, and that he had 'pointed a bone at his faithless wife and her lover.' To 'point a bone' at an enemy--the bone having first been smeared with human blood, and subjected to magical incantations--is the worst spell that one aboriginal can cast upon another.

She brought them cooked meat, bread and a ration of tea and sugar, provided them with a pair of blankets, and found for Wombo some old moleskins, a shirt, and a pair of boots, while Oola almost forgot the medicine man's evil spell in her puzzled delight over a lacey undergarment and a discarded kimono dressing-grown, which had been part of Lady Bridget's trousseau.