Charlotte Brontë's conceptions, when she let her imagination have play and forgot the world of readers were, like Jane Eyre's thoughts, "elfish." See the fairy tale, _The Adventures of Ernest Alembert_ (attributed by Charlotte Brontë to her pen in her fifteenth year). It has been remarked this story is not in the handwriting Charlotte Brontë affected at this period, and that the manuscript has not Charlotte's customary title-page.[33] In view of the evidence of _The Key to the Brontë Works_, it is of interest to make a comparison between _Alembert_ and Montagu's _Gleanings in Craven_, published eight years later than the date Charlotte Brontë ascribed to its completion. The association of the family of Lambert with hypothetical high treason and with being extinct; with the Malham country as described by Montagu--the references, so frequent in his pages, to the awe inspired by the wildness of the scenery, to the underground torrent, the contrasting range of crags, the lake, the fairy cave, the fairy and the admittance into faerydom; to "the mellow hum of the bee," etc., are interesting in the extreme, seeing by aid of Montagu that Malham as presented by him became Gimmerton of _Wuthering Heights_. Whether "coincidence" has to do with this matter of _Alembert_ and Montagu, or Charlotte Brontë has for some reason ante-dated _Alembert_, I leave to the reader to decide. MONTAGU. _The Adventures of Ernest Alembert._ Montagu, speaking of the church Charlotte Brontë begins by of Kirkby-Malham, "in the ... relating that there once lived vale of Malham," says:--"Some of an Ernest Alembert. One of the the Lamberts are buried Alemberts having been "beheaded" here--here is a monument to ... for "high treason,"[34] "the John Lambert, who aided Cromwell family had decayed" until the in his murder of Charles the only survivor was Ernest First (as all did who were Alembert. We are told that he implicated in Cromwell's beside a valley; and the river rebellion)[34]--after the became a lake. A stranger Restoration lived he died putting him under a spell, banished and forgotten at [A]lembert accepts him for a Guernsey. The family is now guide, and they wend their way extinct." up the valley. In the chapter on Malham, [A]lembert finds himself at a Montagu accepts a guide who place where the torrent goes takes him up the vale of Malham. underground. He mentions Malham Lake, or Tarn, and says of the River Aire in the connection that the water "delves into the mountain, and does not appear again until it reaches the village of Airton, below Malham."