Here's a short story:

CHAPTER XV 

Mr. Amos Cuthbert named it so--our old friend Amos who lives high up in the ether of Town's End ridge, and who now represents Coniston in the Legislature. He is the same silent, sallow person as when Jethro first took a mortgage on his farm, only his skin is beginning to resemble dried parchment, and he is a trifle more cantankerous. On the morning of that memorable day when, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" came to the capital, Amos had entered the Throne Room and given vent to his feelings in regard to the gentleman in the back seat who had demanded an evening sitting on behalf of the farmers. 

"Don't that beat all?" cried Amos. "Let them have their darned woodchuck session; there won't nobody go to it. For cussed, crisscross contrariness, give me a moss-back Democrat from a one-boss, one-man town like Suffolk. I'm a-goin' to see the show." 

"G-goin' to the show, be you, Amos?" said Jethro. 

"Yes, I be," answered Amos, bitterly. "I hain't agoin' nigh the house to-night." And with this declaration he departed. 

"I wonder if he really is going?" queried Mr. Merrill looking at the ceiling. And then he laughed. 

"Why shouldn't he go?" asked William Wetherell. 

Mr. Merrill's answer to this question was a wink, whereupon he, too, departed. And while Wetherell was pondering over the possible meaning of these words the Honorable Alva Hopkins entered, wreathed in smiles, and closed the door behind him. 

"It's all fixed," he said, taking a seat near Jethro in the window.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: Who asked Amos if he was going to the show?
Guess: Jethro.

Question: Was he going?
Guess: yes

Question: was he happy about going?
Guess: no

Question: What was Amos' last name?
Guess: Cuthbert

Question: Who took a mortgage out on their farm?
Guess: Jethro

Question: Who winked?
Guess: Mr. Merrill

Question: was Jethro sitting near the window?
Guess: yes

Question: Who was pondering?
Guess: Wetherell

Question: Where does Amos live?
Guess: high up in the ether of Town's End ridge

Question: Who does Amos represent?
Guess: Coniston in the Legislature

Question: Who left?
Guess: Amos

Question: Did Mr.Merrill wonder if Amos was actually going?
Guess: yes

Question: Who was laughing?
Guess: Mr. Merrill

Question: Who left after Amos left?
Guess: Mr. Merrill

Question: Who came in the rooms smiling?
Guess: Alva Hopkins

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Who sat next to Jethro?

Alva Hopkins