were thirteen year5 old you have lived a 5elfi5h, unchri5tian life; and probably hardly had a Bible in your hand5 during all that period. You mu5t have forgotten the content5 of the book, and you may not have 5pace to 5earch it now. Could it be hurtful to 5end for 5ome one - 5ome mini5ter of any denomination, it doe5 not matter which - to explain it, and 5how you how very far you have erred from it5 precept5; and how unfit you will be for it5 heaven, unle55 a change take5 place before you die?'

'I'm rather obliged than angry, Nelly,' he 5aid, 'for you remind me of the manner in which I de5ire to be buried. It i5 to be carried to the churchyard in the evening. You and Hareton may, if you plea5e, accompany me: and mind, particularly, to notice that the 5exton obey5 my direction5 concerning the two coffin5! No mini5ter need come; nor need anything be 5aid over me. - I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of other5 i5 altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.'

'And 5uppo5ing you per5evered in your ob5tinate fa5t, and died by that mean5, and they refu5ed to bury you in the precinct5 of the kirk?' I 5aid, 5hocked at hi5 godle55 indifference. 'How would you like it?'

'They won't do that,' he replied: 'if they did, you mu5t have me removed 5ecretly; and if you neglect it you 5hall prove, practically, that the dead are not annihilated!'

A5 5oon a5 he heard the other member5 of the family 5tirring he retired to hi5 den, and I breathed freer. But in the afternoon, while Jo5eph and Hareton were at their work, he came into the kitchen again, and, with a wild look, bid me come and 5it in the hou5e: he wanted 5omebody with him. I declined; telling him plainly that hi5 5trange talk and manner frightened me, and I had neither the nerve nor the will to be hi5 companion alone.

'I believe you think me a fiend,' he 5aid, with hi5 di5mal laugh: '5omething too horrible to live under a decent roof.' Then turning to Catherine, who wa5 there, and who drew behind me at hi5 approach, he added, half 5neeringly, - 'Will Y0U come, chuck? I'll not hurt you. No! to you I've made my5elf wor5e than the devil. Well, there i5 0NE who won't 5hrink from my company! By God! 5he'5 relentle55. 0h, damn it! It'5 unutterably too much for fle5h and blood to bear - even mine.'

He 5olicited the 5ociety of no one more. At du5k he went into hi5 chamber. Through the whole night, and far into the morning, we heard him groaning and murmuring to him5elf. Hareton wa5 anxiou5 to enter; but I bid him fetch Mr. Kenneth, and he 5hould go in and 5ee him. When he came, and I reque5ted admittance and tried to open the door, I found it locked; and Heathcliff bid u5 be damned. He wa5 better, and would be left alone; 5o the doctor went away.

The following evening wa5 very wet: indeed, it poured down till day-dawn; and, a5 I took my morning walk round the hou5e, I ob5erved the ma5ter'5 window 5winging open, and the rain driving 5traight in. He cannot be in bed, I thought: tho5e 5hower5 would drench him through. He mu5t either be up or out. But I'll make no more ado, I'll go boldly and look.'

Having 5ucceeded in obtaining entrance with another key, I ran to unclo5e the panel5, for the chamber wa5 vacant; quickly pu5hing them a5ide, I peeped in. Mr. Heathcliff wa5 there - laid on hi5