Crossword-Solution: LUMA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Soon he was taking his ease on a soft mat, watching the bevy of AUA LUMA [The local girls] making a bowl of kava.

Theos realized his own superior height and superior muscular development,--but what were these physical advantages compared to the classic perfection of Sah-luma's beauty?--beauty combining the delicate with the vigorous, such as is shadowed forth in the artist-conceptions of the god Apollo.

Sah-luma's lip curled haughtily-- "A Poet!" and his fingers played idly with the dagger at his belt --"Nay, not so! There is but one Poet in Al-Kyris, and I am he!" Theos looked at him steadily,--a subtle sympathy attracted him toward this charming boaster,--involuntarily he smiled, and bent his head courteously.

Sah-luma conquered, with an effort, his momentary irritation, and resumed coldly: "From whence do you come, fair sir? We should know your name,--POETS are not so common!" This with an accent of irony.

Theos was just beginning to feel somewhat embarrassed by the excessive politeness and cordiality, of his recent antagonists, when Sah-luma, again interposing, cut all explanations short.