It is interesting to recall Branwell avowed he, and not Emily, wrote _Wuthering Heights_. This fact and the association of Branwell Brontë incidents and epithets with the book induced Mr. Leyland to advocate Branwell's authorship. _The Key to the Brontë Works_ shows the absurdness of such a claim. Mr. Leyland suggested Branwell may have collaborated with Emily; and he professed to discover a break in the style. I find, however, that though there were violent psychical fluctuations in the mood of the writer of _Wuthering Heights_, the book is throughout the work of Charlotte Brontë. This may be proved alone by the Chapter III., with which I now deal: it is the "key" chapter, and is, so to speak, a microcosm of _Wuthering Heights_, as the reader will perceive by help of my index. Whosoever was the writer of this third chapter wrote the whole of _Wuthering Heights_, and we see it was Currer Bell. By Charlotte Brontë's Method I., interchange of the sexes, the interloper Jane in the early chapters of _Jane Eyre_ and the interloper Heathcliffe in the early chapters of _Wuthering Heights_ become one and the same; and Hindley's tyrannizing over Heathcliffe is John Reed's (Branwell Brontë's) tyrannizing over Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë). Again, by Method I., interchange of the sexes, old Joseph, in Charlotte's _Wuthering Heights_ version of the rainy day incident in her childhood, serves the part of the servant Tabitha Aykroyd, for whom Bessie in the _Jane Eyre_ version of the rainy day incident was drawn. (See "Joseph" and his bit of garden, _Wuthering Heights_, Chapter XXXIII.; also my footnote on page 47.) Thus Charlotte Brontë as Catherine tells us that when she was banished from the comfortable fire "Joseph" sermonizes, and that she hoped he might give "a short homily for his own sake"; and in the scene in _Jane Eyre_ drawn from the same incident Jane was left to Bessie, who "supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour's length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof."