Crossword-Solution: VOA 3 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

That is what the priest said.” “The priest?” “Yes, at Voa--do you know? Mother died there when I was small--it is so far away! And there are thirteen houses by the side of the river--just here; and on this side--trees, trees.” This was important, I thought, and would lead to the very knowledge I wished for; so I pressed her to tell me more about the settlement she had named, and of which I had never heard.

Have I not told you of Voa, on the River Voa, where I was born, where mother died, where the priest taught me, years, years ago? All that you cannot see, it is so far away--so far.” I did not laugh at her simplicity, nor did I smile or feel any inclination to smile.

For I must tell you, O mother, that after you died the priest at Voa told me repeatedly that when I prayed, whether to you or to any of the saints, or to the Mother of Heaven, I must speak as he had taught me if I wished to be heard and understood.

And that was most strange, since you had taught me differently; but you were living then, at Voa, and now that you are in heaven, perhaps you know better.

But to you that do not understand, what can I say? Only that you are not like him and all those that I knew at Voa.