Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-17
Why She Would
........NOt Marry
IOripinal.l

ter, appeared in Lone Star Gulch one
morning. informed the miners living
there that they were brother and sis
ter, built a cabin and settled them
selves Mark Golfer bought claim
and every morning. Sh0u.dcrin% hk
pick and shovel. went out TO work II
while Sarah remained ut home and dId
the Homework. Sarah was Il 5000
looking woman thirty years Of axe
and had not been long at Lone Stal
Gulch before ST." WAS sought in mar
ria@c by several EIi@"rS. %Ac. ECW2v"T
declined the attentions OF them -! O.
clar:n- that Sc WAS devoted 20 hel
brother and would net leave Him.
There WIS or. lnwcvCr. WHO Per
SISTED. This was Ralph McCAnn. he
was a fair haired. blue eyed fellow OF
twcnty-cight and had Il very attractive
way with him. especially for women
lie soon mai" Roadway with Sarah
Golfer. who did not from the first turn
te him the cold shoulder she had turned
TO her other suitOrS. Mark Golfer, in
stead of rejoicing in the prospect OF
being relieved of the support of Il Sis
ter. frowned on her acceptance of the
attentions Of Mccain. whom he at last
forbade the house. McCann appealed
to Sarah to stand by him in preference
to her brother. but Sarah did nothing
but weep and wiring her hands. Evi'
IDENTIFY She was bound to her brother by
some extraordinary tie, and it was
plain that she had fallen deeply in love
with the stranger.
One evening after working hours
Golfer and Mccain met on the road
way running between the few houses
ranged on either side and known as the
town of Lone Star Gulch.
Golfer" said Mccain, IL would like
some explanation with regard to your
objections to my attentions to your Sis
ter. We are devotedly attached to
one another, l have some money and
q good claim and can give the best Of
references. If there is any reason that
can explain away
"AIl | have to say to you, Ralph Nc
Cam, is to let my sister alone"
Il certainly will if she desires it or
if you will give me any good ground
for your opposition
You say you'll let her alone if she
desires it. DO you mean to tell me
that she doesn't desire it,
"She clings to you in preference to
me, but her heart
Golfer turned white. He made as If
to draw his revolver, but instantly
changed his mind.
Let her alone he cried ficrcely
and strobe away rapidly.
The next morning Il note from Sarah
was left at McCann'S door begging
him to desist from any further attempt
TO win her or even to see or communl-
cate with her, adding that she could
never be his wife as long rs her broth
or lived. Mccain, knowing by the tone
of her letter that she was in earnest,
made no further attempt to sec her.
One afternoon when the coach passed
through Lone Star Gulch stout wom-
an with rcSolutc look on her face got
off with her clothes tied up in bundle
and put up in the only boarding house
in the place. What the woman, who
called herself Mrs. Wilbur, was to do
in this out of the way mining town did
not transpire, but there was surprise
among the citizens when it was known
q few days later that she had gone to
live at the Golfers. The surprise was
occasioned by the fact that Golfer and
his sister had lived entirely alone, new
or receiving any company, and there
was not a family in the gulch where
any one, especially as unattractive a
woman as Mrs. Wilbur, would be less
likely to find board.
The day after the event there were
rumors Of high words being heard in
the middle of the night at the Golfers,
but as there were no evidences Of trou-
bic, except for the grim appearance OF
Mrs. Wilbur and a certain whipped cur
look about Golfer. no one could surmisc
what had occurrcd-that is, no one but
Ralph Mccain, who got his eXplana-
ton in this wise:
Having need to 60 to neighborinS
town for some blasting material, lie set
out early in the morning and was re-
turning in the afternoon when he saw
Sarah Golfer on the road coming to-
ward him.
"Where are you going% asked Nc.
Cam when they met
From the man with whom I have
been living"
"Your brother:"
81 supposed he was my husband" re-
piled Sarah, with tremor in her
voice, "but I was deceived. He had
wife before he married me. His name
Is james Wilbur, and his wife has ap-
peared with proofs Of her marriage to
him.
McCann sat for 4 few minutes thun-
derstvrck. first incensed at the wroCG
that Lad been done the woman lie
loved. then q JOY yelling Up in hic
Heart that there was no insurmounta.
be barrier between them.