Hope Takes Flight by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris [Morris, Gilbert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042030, FIC042000, FIC026000
ISBN: 9781441239952
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

Heather stood watching the tall young flyer as they waited in the train station. She had enjoyed her time with him immensely, and now, as they waited for the train that would take him back, she was sorry to see it end. “It’s been delightful, Gavin,” she said. “I don’t know when I have had more fun.” A mischievous light sparkled in her eyes. “Americans are fun, I think. We English are so stodgy and so confounded rigid.” A thought came to her. “You’ve been good for my father. He needs someone to talk to. He feels so useless and left out of things. I think sometimes that if he didn’t know God, he would kill himself.”

Gavin was startled, but he knew she was speaking truth. He had come to know Leo Spencer very well. The Englishman had taught him to play chess, for which Gavin had shown an almost spectacular flair. Spencer could not believe it when Gavin had beaten him after only four games, and he had laughed and said, “If you can fly an airplane the way you can play chess, my boy, I pity the poor German flyers!”

Heather had encouraged Gavin to spend time with her father and now, as they stood on the train platform, she thanked him for it. “It was good of you to spend so much time with my father. He needed it.”

“Why, it was fun,” he said, then shyly, “I like your parents, both of them. They’re not what I thought nobility would be.”

“Oh, we’re poor nobility,” she said lightly. “A good name and no money. Our home in England isn’t like this at all. It’s really a very small place.”

“I’d like to see it sometime,” he said. “Maybe I…” He broke off, fearing that she might consider him forward.

“Come to see us anytime, Gavin,” she said.

As they talked, Gavin was thinking how strange that he, an Arkansas plowboy, should be carrying on a conversation with an English lady, daughter of a titled nobleman. But he had learned that although there was some rigid pride in the Spencers, there was also a very warm streak. They were, he knew, very religious. He had known this about Heather before; she had told him the last time they had met, and now he brought it up himself. “I wish I had more time. Maybe I could go to church with you.”

Heather regarded him with surprise. He had been rather adamant about that the last time. “I thought you’d given up on church and God.”

Gavin was embarrassed. “No, I hope not…or at least I hope he doesn’t give up on me.”

“Do you ever think about God when you go into a fight?” she asked curiously.

“Yes, I do. I don’t know about the others. But, of course, my brother’s a preacher, and my other brother, Amos…well, he’s a fine Christian.”

“What about you, Gavin? Don’t you believe in God?”

Gavin shook his head. “I don’t know, Heather. I really don’t. I’d like to, but there’s something in me that says no.

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