up the drive!
Jack's head poked ever so far out of the carriage window on one side,
and Max's on the other. A general shriek, "They've come! they've come!"
and in another minute Eleanor is in her mother's arms, to be released
from them only to be hugged and re-hugged and hugged again; while from
every direction comes the cry, "Miss Campbell has come, dear Miss
Campbell." "Miss Tammel are tum, dear Miss Tammel."

* * * * *

At last they are all in bed--Jack, Max, Harry, Chris, Patty, Edith,
Maggie, Flop, and Towzer; and Miss Campbell is free to sit quietly
beside her mother's sofa, with her soft thin hands in hers.

"Oh, dear Eleanor, how nice it is to have you home again!"

"Oh, dear mamma, how nice it is to be at home again!"

Then they talked together of many things--of Eleanor's school-life and
friends, of all that had happened at home while she was away, of all the
girl hoped to do to help her mother.

"I shall be so thankful if you do not find the children too much for
you," said Mrs. Campbell. "You see, Miss Fanshawe is excellent as a
daily governess, but she could not possibly stay here altogether, on
account of her invalid father; if only it is not putting too much on
you, my darling," she added anxiously.

Eleanor stooped over and kissed her mother.

"Don't fear, dear; I may make mistakes, but I shall learn. They are
dear children; how funny it is how my old name for myself has clung to
me! I could fancy myself a baby again when I heard that tiny Towzer
calling me 'Miss Tammel.'"

"You will never get them to call you anything else," said her mother.
"It must sound rather odd to strangers."

"And at school I was always Eleanor! But how glad I am to be 'Miss
Tammel' again. I have brought some small presents for the children," she
went on; "books for Patty and Edith, and dolls for the three little ones
and a few bon-bons--not many, but coming from Paris I thought they would
expect some. There are two little boxes exactly alike for Flop and
Towzer, and a rather larger one for Maggie. So there will be no excuse
for squabbling."

"No; that will be very nice. Poor Maggie," said Mrs. Campbell; "I fear
you will find her the most troublesome. She is an 'odd' one; perhaps
that has to do with it, but somehow she seems always getting into
scrapes, and I fancy the others are a little sharp on her. She has a
queer temper, but she is a very clever child."

"She is honest and truthf