Private Duty Nurse — Isabel Cabot

Two men wanted lovely young Nurse Johnson

Phil Tyler, a widower, was rich and attractive. And Eleanor knew his motherless little girl need her woman's care and love.

But young Dr. Grant was a gifted surgeon who wanted Eleanor to share his brilliant future.

Then tragedy stuck Phil Tyler's daughter. Love and duty both impelled Eleanor to help, but she knew that in this crucial test she must have a man's strength and wisdom to guide her.

To which of her lovers would she turn?

Eleanor Johnson's first date with Dr. Grant Taylor was a blind one--and by the end of the date, Ellie was sure that she never wanted to see the handsome young doctor again.

But when millionaire Thomas G. Tyler, who had donated the money for the Tyler Wing at Belle County Hospital and just about controlled Bell County, was stricken with a heart attack, Ellie was called in on the case as night nurse.

At the Tyler home, with Grant--his differences with his uncle forgotten--taking over most of Dr. Hal Howard's duties, Eleanor couldn't very well avoid the arrogant doctor. And Grant, who had mixed emotions about the girl whom he had labeled "plain" on their one and only date, found himself growing increasingly aware of the earnest young nurse who had so decidedly put him in his place.

Ellie's friendship with Phil Tyler, Thomas G.'s only son, might not have reached the stage it did if she had not wanted to escape riding back to Belleville with Grant each morning. But when Phil was found unconscious at the bottom of a lookout spot in the park one dark night, suspicion pointed to Eleanor. Phil had taken her to dinner that night.

It was Grant's idea that he and Eleanor announce a phony engagement to throw the police off--but even Grant thought that the nurse knew something about Phil's accident...

Then Phil's small and endearing daughter, Jessie, disappeared--and Eleanor and Grant were thrown into the search for the captivating youngster.