The single servant returned first.

He said Mr.Green, the lawyer, was out when he arrived at his house, and he had to wait two hours for his re-entrance; and then Mr.Green told him he had a little business in the village that must be done; but he would be at Thrushcross Grange before morning.

The four men came back unaccompanied also.

They brought word that Catherine was ill: too ill to quit her room; and Heathcliff would not suffer them to see her.

I scolded the stupid fellows well for listening to that tale, which I would not carry to my master; resolving to take a whole bevy up to the Heights, at day-light, and storm it literally, unless the prisoner were quietly surrendered to us.