Crossword-Solution: UGO 3 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Poor Sedelenda had hidden away in some other far-off corner; but even as Clotilda hung for protection to the robe of the good stranger-priest Ugo of Rheims (whom the king, her father, had lodged in the palace, on his homeward journey from Jerusalem), the clash of steel drew nearer and nearer.

Her sister, Sedelenda, had found refuge and safety in the convent of Ainay, near at hand, and there, too, Clotilda would have gone, but her uncle, the new king, said: “No, the maidens must be forever separated.” He expressed a willingness, however, to have the Princess Clotilda brought up in his palace, which had been her father’s, and requested the priest Ugo of Rheims to remain awhile, and look after the girl’s education.

And on the journey, the good Ugo had made the road seem less weary, and the lumbering ox-wagons less jolty and painful, by telling his bright young charge of all the wonders and relics he had seen in his journeyings in the East; but especially did the girl love to hear him tell of the boy king of the Franks, Hlodo-wig, or Clovis, who lived in the priest’s own boyhood home of Tournay, in far-off Belgium, and who, though so brave and daring, was still a pagan, when all the world was fast becoming Christian.

But now that the good priest Ugo of Rheims saw that his own home land was in trouble, he felt that there lay his duty.

The Princess Clotilda took, as if in a dream, the ring of transparent jacinth set in solid gold, and asked quietly: “What would the king of the Franks with me?” “The king, my master, hath heard from the holy Bishop Remi and the good priest Ugo of thy beauty and discreetness,” replied Aurelian; “and likewise of the sad condition of one who is the daughter of a royal line.