So Jobe and me sot there dazed like for a little while. Then the sheriff come to us and said the case was over and we had better go home. We got up and come home. We have been over the dear old farm half a dozen times, so as to carry its memory in our minds to wherever we shall go. Oh! how queer I feel when I wonder where that will be. Jobe is jist a mopin around with no life in him at all. I haint heerd him holler for McKinley since we got back from court. I wonder if Mr. McKinley, and Mark Hanna, and Henry Flagler, of the Standard Oil Trust, and Mr. Kohlsaat, and them other millionairs what has been down in Georgia schemin and plannin and arrangin to git Mr. McKinley elected to the president’s office, want to git him elected so as to make it easier for Jobe and his likes to pay for their homes. I wonder if the laws they are wantin to git made, or keep from bein made, is to make themselves richer or to make the life of the fellers who vote the ticket they fix up easier. Them millionair fellers seem to take a great interest in elections and things. CHAPTER XIII. JOBE CHEERS UP. JOBE’S aunt Jane out in Indyana is dead. The poor, dear soul worked hard all her life, and now she is dead. She had been takin care of a rich inverlid for some twelve years, and got two dollars a week for all that time. By livin plain and not goin anywhere for all that time, she has saved $563, and she has left all her savins to Jobe, her only kin, the lawyers out there write us. [Illustration: Aunt Jane.] We got a letter from them last week sayin she had died of a suddent, and left Jobe all she had, arter payin her buryin expenses. Jobe has been more like hisself, ever since he heerd she was dead, than he has been for some time. He now says that if he lives to vote for McKinley it will be the happiest moment of his life. I hope Jobe will live. As soon as he got that letter he started out agin to try to borrow enough money to pay off Mr. Richer’s mortgage before foreclosin day. He found one banker at Canal Dover who said he would let him have $1,800 at seven per cent. interest, jist to commodate Jobe. Jobe is a goin to take it, which, with what he is to git as his dead aunt’s heir, will make the money Congressman Richer is wantin so bad, and a little besides. Jobe went to town yisterday to try to stop the foreclosin bizness until our legicy money comes and we can git the other from the bank at Canal Dover. [Illustration: “He would call him ‘Billy,’ in honor of the next president.”] They told him down to the court-house that they would try to “stave it off.” Jobe said that when the report got out that he was about to git a legicy everybody wanted to shake hands with him and be friendly like.