The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
0TfSE CHANCE HAD COTE OHR t AND HE WAS CONSCIOUS or IT



 Isabella answered angrily, accusing Catherine of trying to islander him. Still, the warning might have had some effect If Catherine had not been seized by one of her mad whims a few days later and told Heathcliff of Isabela's feelings in the girls presence She fled and Heathciff looked after her with a strange smile. A few days later Catherine saw him kissing Isabella, and demanded of Heath cliff that he cease trifiing with the girl or trying to marry her.
 What is it to youl'' he growled, fierce | ly. q have a few words to say to you. I want you to be aware that know that you have treated me infernally-infernal- ly, do you hear? And if you think can be consoled by sweet words you're an idiot; and if you fancy I'll suffer un- revenged I'll convince you of the con- 1 trary."
 Mir Linton entered in time to hear the last few words He stepped up to him quietly and ordered him from the house. l Heathcliff measured his person with an 1 eye full of derision. "C&thy," said he, this lamb of yours threaten a bull It is in danger of splitting it's skull against my knuckles"
 MT. Linton called for his men. Fair means!'' cried Catherine, slamming the door and locking 1t. If you have not courage to attack him, make an apology or allow yourself to be beaten" Edgar leaned on the back of a chair and his face grew pale.
 iGh inU nf f1n ll--h dnd coward, Cathyr' said Heathcliff. Linton sprang at him and struck him a mighty blow full on the throat. Then he walked out of a side door and around to the front to call his men.
 "Go!' cried Catherine. Cop
 'Do you suppose I'm going with that blow burning in my gullet?" Heathcliff thundered. "Ill crush his ribs like rot ten hazlenut. If I don't floor him now I shall murder him some time. Every day 1 I grow madder to send him to Heaven!"
 But MT. Linton did not choose to brawl with ruffans. lie sent his men to the door, and Heathcliff smashed the lock and disappeared as they came up to the side entrance.
 MT. Linton spoke sternly to his wife as soon as Heathciff had sone She threw herself on couch and began to grind her teeth in a way quite frightful to hear. Then suddenly she stretched herself out stiff and turned up her eyes, while her | face became livid. AS soon as she re- | covered she ran to her room and locked herself in. There she stayed without food l for three days and nights. Q md of bat cba her mind wandering, and a change in her | face such as months of illness could not have made. Mortified at her appearance. Linton forgot everything except his love for her, and grasped her, but she fought ! him off with the fury of insanity: They carried her to bed, where she encountered and conquered the worst shock of what 1 the doctors called brain fever. She was l saved from the grave, but she emerged a more ruin mentally. Linton, sitting be- side her hour after hour, tried in vain to hope that her mind would settle into it's right balance again. The flash of her proud eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness. They did not seem to look on the objects around her. but far beyond, Though her face was stamped with the change that coming death brings, there seemed unearthly beauty in the change.
 catherine's malady was not the only sore trouble that beset the once happy Grange. On the night of the scene that ended so tragically, Isabella ran away with Heathcliff After their marriage he took her to Wuthering Heights, whence they soon received letter from which they learned that she-wa being cruelty treated.
 While Catherine lay i'll Heathcliff haunt ed the Grange garden, lurking under the trees and asking news from Nelly Dean whenever she came out Hardly had she recovered sufficiently to be left alone for time before he took advantage of Lin- tons temporary absence from the house to enter and make his way to her pres ence.
 In a stride he was at her side and had her grasped In his arms. He neither spoke nor loosed his hold for some min