The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23
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abyss where cannot Anh youl oh, E3od! It is unh earebiel cannot live without my souiP'
 Nelly bean fled terrified as if from
 q mad man. Indeed, he was mad. There wer6 bioody marks Oh his head where hk had dashed t against tree M hls biANk, hopeless despair. Raging,
 wukhertnk Heights end Sell foul of Hindlsy E&fnshaws who attacked him
 with q kni4e. Heathciiff, whose nor
 mai strength was increased by his
 mania, wrested it from him. cut him ferocfously and Kicked him Into insen- sibsiity. IsabeIia escaped and after Q brief visit 10 heF old home retreated
 to a quiet place near London There a son was born whom she named Lin- For a time it seemed As if peace. ai- belt saadeHed one. had returned again Go Thrushcross Grange. Edgar Lin
 ton spent a life of entire secfnsion
 within his own park limits, varied
 only By rairbies on the rnoofs and vis- it's to his wife's grave. He recalled her memory with ardent love from which his loyal mind and heart had purgSd all other recollecttons. His
 little daughter became all in all to him.
 He never mentioned HsatheliR and ahrAnk from any reminder of him. But the Countryside was too full of the nap penIngs at Wuthering Heights to leave the Grange in Ignorance. Everybody knew that EArnshaw, encoufaged by Fzeathcliff to drink himself Into mad ness and to gamble with him in that l condition had faortgaged his whole l ektate to his evil genius. Little Hareton had conceived | strange aoHlike affection for Heath- | ellH mostly because the latter, for his | own purposes. intefpoasd between him
 ana his drunken father The little fel- low. encouraged by Heathciin In idls- | ness, was growing up more ignorant I than a plowboy. He had been taught | to swear at his father with the volu- | bllity of A trooper; end Eeathclin | watched with eager and malignant joy | to see Hindley Earnshaw's son, the | last of the EArnBhkws, thrust Into the
 same mental and moral darkness Into
 which fIlndley had thrust him. l HinaIey knew too well into what
 tolls he had fallen but his knowiedge
 came too late. Before Catherine had | been buried Six months he dled in | drunken 1t, and Heathclin came for- ward with papers to show that svery foot of the land had been raortgaged l to hifn. f1areton was reduced to a
 state ol complete dependence on his l fathers enemy, and Instead of being 1 the first gentleman In the nel6hbor- l hood lived as q farm lAborer unable to
 read or write, and quite without | friends.
 so twelve years pAssed. Little Miss l Catherine had grown to be q beauty 1 ike her mother but with a despness and tenderness of feeling that was like her fathsr's. She was kept close to the l house and grounds and. saw little of 1 the outside world. Then one day news | came that isabella had died and Mir. | Linton set forth to get her son, Lin
 ton, and care for him.
 He found a sickly. peevish lad, who | responded to catherine's endearments with utter selflshnSss. Hardly had he | been installed in the Grange before peace fled from the place.
 HeathclIff's wild and passionate
 mind. far from finding forgetfulness | with the years had fed on it's tornents 1 ana become ever more black and bitter and revengeful He haunted the grave
 of Catherine at night. like a cursed spirit. as he was. As soon as he heard of Linton's arrival at the Grange he
 saw another opportunity to stab the
 heart of his rival. and so demanded his
 son at once. There was nothing for lt but to deliver the boy to him.
 He sneered openly when he saw the
 puny fretful creature. "I'Il keep him
 alive though" said he You may tell
 that 10 the master of the Grange. My
 son is prospective heir. and I don't
 wish him to de till Edgar Linton Is dead and I can thus be sure of being his successor. Besides I want to see
 my descendant fairly lord over his place and hIs child. That is the sole consideration that makes me endure the
 whelpl"
 MT Linton shut himself up more than ever after that. and only permit ted himself to think of the name of Heathciiff to take precautions that hts daughter Catherine should never meet him. But HeathcliR had other plans and frustrated the simple gentieman's policy with his watehful cunning
 The "whelp" was losing his frail hold on life month by month. His loving father determined to assure his owner ship of the Grange by a stroke that ap- psaied Co him doubly because 1t would hurt Edgar Linton in his deepest af. lection. He forced the boy, III as he was, to ride abroad until they met Catherine The loving girl. checked at her eousInss psllor. was easly induced