Silver Wings by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [HILL, GRACE LIVINGSTON]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-194-7
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

What did they mean? It must be that end-of-the-world stuff. What a shame that such an interesting young man should be part of a fanatical cult like this! Perhaps she could help to save him from such things and bring him back to normal once more. He seemed to have good common sense in other ways, and he certainly was a gentleman! She would see what she could do!

When the service was over she stepped back into the far end of the pew and waited, looking toward the pulpit and watching John Dunleith, smiling, and trying to catch his eye across the crowds.

The people were pressing up around him, shaking his hand and smiling, and some of them were actually weeping through their smiles as if they were happy tears. Neddy stood close by him with an important little air of ownership about him, and basked in the smiles that were left over from the worship of his idol.

She must cultivate Neddy. Candy would do it. All boys loved candy! For at any cost she must win her wager that she had so lightly made, to enslave this young man to herself. It was a new thing for her to have to work hard to get any young man to fall at her feet.

So she stood and waited for him near the church door, watching him interestedly, showing him as plainly as she could that she was waiting there for his escort.

Once she looked with a quick searching eye to the corner where Amory had been sitting to see if the other girl waited also, but Amory had slipped out as soon as the service was over and was halfway home by this time.

Diana had not seen the hostile eyes of Neddy as he caught sight of her. Neither did she hear the quick caught breath and the low spoken words, “Aw, gee! Let’s beat it, pard! The enemy’s got an ambush!”

But John Dunleith had not needed the warning. He knew when the exquisite golden girl had entered. He knew, too, how little she had heard of what he had tried to say, and even though he had no eyes in the back of his head, he knew that she was standing now, with that expectant expression on her face, waiting for him to come out. His mind was working on the idea even as he answered the questions of the eager ones who wanted to know more about what he had told them that morning.

A sweet old lady in a gray dress and a little gray hat that suited her face but was not at all stylish slipped into the seat in front of where Diana stood waiting and took her astonished and reluctant hand warmly.

“We’re glad to see you here, my dear!” she said tenderly. “If you don’t mind my saying it, you look like a white flower yourself. I was watching you while the minister was talking and I couldn’t help thinking you looked as if you were wearing that white linen of Christ’s righteousness that he talked about.

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