Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net TURN ABOUT ELEANOR [Illustration: Eleanor] Turn About Eleanor By ETHEL M. KELLEY ILLUSTRATED BY F. GRAHAM COOTES INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1917 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Printed in the United States of America PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Enter Eleanor 1 II The Cooperative Parents 14 III The Experiment Begins 27 IV Peter Elucidates 40 V Eleanor Enjoys Herself in Her Own Way 48 VI Jimmie Becomes a Parent 63 VII One Descent into Bohemia 72 VIII The Ten Hutchinsons 84 IX Peter 101 X The Omniscient Focus 113 XI Gertrude Has Trouble with Her Behavior 124 XII Madam Bolling 138 XIII Brook and River 158 XIV Merry Christmas 167 XV Growing Up 181 XVI Margaret Louisa's Birthright 195 XVII A Real Kiss 203 XVIII Beulah's Problem 219 XIX Mostly Uncle Peter 234 XX The Makings of a Triple Wedding 251 XXI Eleanor Hears the News 261 XXII The Search 271 XXIII The Young Nurse 281 XXIV Christmas Again 292 XXV The Lover 304 TURN ABOUT ELEANOR TURN ABOUT ELEANOR CHAPTER I ENTER ELEANOR A child in a faded tam-o'-shanter that had once been baby blue, and a shoddy coat of a glaring, unpropitious newness, was sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a hansom seat, and gazing soberly out at the traffic of Fifth Avenue.