Since Nelly has no other way to communicate with Cathy, whom she misses dearly, I agreed to bring a letter from her to Cathy when I went over to the Heights to tell Heathcliff that I will be leaving the Grange for 6 months. When I arrived, I tried to discreetly give the letter to Cathy, but, being the defiant thing she is, she brushed it on the ground, and Hareton snatched it. She went into a fit of sobs, and feeling guilty, Hareton returned it to her. Even after this generous act, she began to humiliate him again for is illiteracy, and in the heat of the moment, he threw many books into the fire in which he had been trying to study from. Later, during dinner, I observed how sad they all seem. It is quite unbearable how solemn it is in that house. I left after this, and six months later I have returned to stay for a night. When I arrived at the Grange, I found out that Nelly had been transferred over to the Heights, replacing Zillah. I went over to talk to her, and she started filling me in on what has happened in my absence. The following story is what she told me. After all of her days of humiliating Hareton, Cathy decided that she wanted to teach Hareton how to read. Since they had been and are spending so much time together, they have grown fond of each other, and that has grown into love. Nelly says that it would be her proudest day if she saw them marry. Apparently, at dinner one night, Hareton, Cathy, and Heathcliff got into an argument over Cathy and Hareton's relationship, and also over her inheritance. Heathcliff almost hit her, but, probably seeing Catherine in her, he stopped last minute. After that, Heathcliff confessed to Nelly that he was done taking out revenge on Hareton and Cathy because of his haunting memories of Catherine. She continues by telling me about Heathcliff's decline in health. She recited that he stopped eating, and that he would go out on long walk at night (to unknown places) and return giddy and excited, like a completely different person. He started having odd ghost sightings of Catherine, and he wanted to be alone all the time. One day, Nelly went into his room, and he was just laying on his bed, dead. On a happier note (well depending on how you feel about Heathcliff's death), she reveals that Cathy and Hareton now have plans to get married and move to the Grange! Once Nelly was finished telling me all of this story, I hurried off and went to the graves of Edgar Linton, Catherine Linton, and Heathcliff, contemplating how such quiet graves could do such haunting, as the villagers had said they did. I think that this will be the end of this journal, as it is a closing on an intriguing and mysterious part of my life. Goodbye and farewell my friends, and may the story of the Earnshaws, Lintons, and Heathcliff, live with you forever.
--Lockwood
--Lockwood