wooden ladder that been--Grace Poole vanished through a [the thick-set trap--the ascent to servant]. You call his garret, I her a strange being suppose. yourself." Truly Montagu's description of the coarse-voiced, thick-set, country-bred servant, and his implication with the mystery of the lonely house had impressed Charlotte Brontë considerably. Whether she portrayed him as the Joseph of _Wuthering Heights_ or, by her Method I., as the Grace Poole of _Jane Eyre_, Charlotte Brontë respects the original associations of this character as they were figured to her by Frederic Montagu's little fiction of "A Night's Repose." Herewith have we evidence as to mental idiosyncrasy and elective-sensitiveness recognizable as Charlotte Brontë's--proof that her brain and none other was responsible for both the _Wuthering Heights_ and the _Jane Eyre_ versions of the midnight incident from Montagu. CHAPTER III. ORIGIN OF THE FOUNDLING HEATHCLIFFE AND HIS NAME IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"--ORIGIN OF THE INSANE LADY AND THE WHITE VEIL SCENE IN "JANE EYRE." We have now seen that Montagu's book provided Charlotte Brontë with the idea for a lonely house of mystery--a mystery which should surround a host with a peculiar, harsh-voiced, uncouth, north-country servant, and I have shown how that idea was adopted by her for _Wuthering Heights_ and afterwards for _Jane Eyre_. At one time Charlotte Brontë wrote the _Tale of a Foundling_, and she certainly read with interest a remarkable story told by Montagu of a foundling who, he tells us in the letter next before the Malham letter, was discovered by a shepherd on the top of a craggy "mountain," a circumstance which perhaps led her in making use of this foundling story to name the child Heathcliffe. I will place the substance of the two stories side by side:-- MONTAGU. _Wuthering Heights._ On the top of a craggy height In a wild, hilly country, a male a male infant "was found by a infant was brought home by a shepherd, who took it to his farmer who had found it home, and after feeding and homeless. He brought up the clothing it he had the child child, and the rest of its named Simon; being himself but career is the obvious "cuckoo a poor man he was unable to story": the child ousts the poor maintain the foundling," when farmer's family. It was called was agreed to by his friends Heathcliffe. that the child should be kept "ameng 'em." The child was called Simon Amenghem.