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"She is moulderin' in jail," sez she. "In jail? Cassandra in jail!" "Yes, in jail." And Serepta's tone wuz now like worm-wood and gall. "You know she owns a big property in tenement houses and other buildings where she lives.
"Is that all?" asked the inspector, as the men jumped out of the hole. "Yes, marster," the man replied, knocking the clay off his boots, "there's naught there now but the coffin of the old 'un, well-nigh moulderin' away, and the plate says he was one o' the old Mayors o' Bath." I turned again to the exhumed body, and the recognition of it came to me in a flash.
But thinkin' I must be sociable, I says, "Your aunt Eunice is well, I s'pose?" "She is a moulderin' in jail," says she. "In jail? Eunice Keeler in jail?" "Yes, in jail." And Dorlesky's tone wus now like wormwood, wormwood and gall. "You know, she owns a big property in tenement-houses, and other buildings, where she lives.
As I see 'em disappear one by one in the depths below, thinks I, is that where Josiah Allen has disappeared to? Who knows but he is moulderin' in some underground dungeon, mournin' and pinin' for me and his native land.
"Old Jim says hit will be eight years before the ranchin' business can git back on hits feet, en by that time he'll be moulderin' dust en dry bones. Old Jim's still harpin' on that funeral business. Now he plans to hold a big barbecue en send out invitations. Jim's got the money all right, but he wants to spend hit on a big, spread-eagle funeral." "Adine should know about this.
"It's Queen City or moulderin' in the drifts till next summer!" cried Jim, and he turned his horse into a side-path. The others followed without a word, willing to accept his guidance through the greatest peril they had yet faced in an arduous campaign.
What wuz their deepest joy and keenest pain? What goles did they see ahead on 'em, and did they ever set down on them goles? I can't tell nor Josiah can't. A hundred years ago one moulderin' old head-stun leaned over the grave of one of that company. Wuz it a glad or a sad heart that rested there in that ancient grave?
"It only took place a month ago; and she has got her grit up, and won't pay: and no knowin' how it will end. She lays there a moulderin'." I myself don't believe Eunice wus "mouldy;" but that is Dorlesky's way of talkin', very flowery. "Wall," says I, "do you think the weather is goin' to moderate?"
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