"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.

"Somebody shake them up, everyone shut her eyes and draw one," she
ordered. "And the person that draws the longest slip must be the one
to find our Eldorado."