Crossword-Solution: NICKUM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There's a vain elf in you somewhere, Pem, that sleeps in the shadow of the Wise Woman." "Maybe--maybe, there's a nickum! That's Andrew's word, Andrew's word for an imp, a tomboy.

Yet when still another six weeks had passed and Pemrose, with all the green world of spring in her heart, stood, breathless, upon that Lenox pinnacle--a pine-clad mountainette some thirteen hundred feet above sea-level--lo and behold! there was a nickum sitting coolly in the Devil's Chair.

Those eyes were now fastened to the back of the nickum's close-cropped head, to his broad shoulders in a rough, gray sweater, noting a certain "bully" shrug of those shoulders at the surrounding landscape, as if, monarch of all he surveyed, he yet felt himself a usurper in his present seat.

But just at this unprecedented moment of excitement Andrew, the true-penny, had encountered another Scot, who emigrated before he did, and was breezily "clacking" with him at some distance from where two breathlessly expectant girls gazed down upon the black top of the nickum's head--and at his wheeling shoulders in the great armchair.

And just as free and frank in her girlish gratitude as that torrent bubbling impulsively out of the earth, when the nickum reached the crest again, she sprang forward, hand outstretched, to meet him.