While tired Billy slept to-night, the Grand Plan discussion was taken up again and entertained with new enthusiasm. It was now a definite Plan, since they had voted unanimously to adopt it--it was no longer merely a unanimous wish, to be bandied about longingly. It remained only to choose a brave soul to go forth and find for it a "local habitation." "When Billy wakes up, we'll draw lots," Loraine decided gently. "The one who gets the longest slip _will go_--but mercy! I hope I sha'n't be the one! Girls, there really ought to be one to--er--oversee the drawing of the lots--" "Hear! Hear!" from T.O. "You will take your chances with the common herd, my dear," Laura Ann said firmly. "You really need not be alarmed, though, for I shall draw the fatal slip. I always do. Then I shall go up-country and engage four boards at a nice white house with green blinds, and forget to ask how much they will cost--the 'boards,' I mean--and whether they'll take Billy at half-price. You'll all like my white house, but you won't be able to stay more than one night on account of the expense. So you'll turn me out of the B-Hive and I shall--" "Oh, don't do anything else--don't!" T.O. groaned. "That will be doing enough." "We shall have to find a _very_ cheap place," Loraine said, thoughtfully, too intent on the fate of the Grand Plan to listen to pleasantries. "Somewhere where it won't cost much of anything." "Such an easy place to find!" murmured Laura Ann. "I see myself going straight to it!" "We've _got_ to go to it, on account of--" Loraine nodded toward the sleeping little figure in the softest chair. "Girls, Billy is all worn out." "So are you," Laura Ann said tenderly. "And you," retorted Loraine. The Talentless One, unintentionally left out, sighed an infinitesimal sigh, preparatory to smiling stoutly. "Of course we're going to find the right place," she said convincingly. "You wait and see. _I_ see it now"--this dreamily; it was odd for the Talentless One to be dreaming. "It looks this way: Green, grassy and pine-woodsy and roomy. And cornfields--think of it!" "'Woods and cornfields--the picture must not be over-done,'" quoted softly and a little accusingly Laura Ann. But the Talentless One had never heard of Miss Cary's beautiful poem, and went on calmly: "And a--pump. Girls, if _I_ find the 'Eldorado,' there'll be a pump--painted blue!" Here Billy woke up. There was no time to discountenance the pump. "Why, I believe I've been asleep!" Billy laughed restedly. "And I've been somewhere else, too. Guess!" "To Eldorado," someone ventured. "Well, I have. It was the loveliest place! There weren't any pianos or schools or photograph salons or _handkerchiefs_ in it!" "Then we'll go there!" the Talentless One cried. Loraine was busy cutting strips of paper. She cut four of varying lengths and dropped them into an empty cracker-box.