The Tenant

THE TENANT Trelkovsky rented the small and shabby apartmenteven though the former tenant had hurled herself screaming through the window. Even though her presenceand her madnessseemed to seep through the damp walls. Even though the dead woman still lived in that apartment. A superstitious person, a fearful person, would not have rented it. But Trelkovsky did. For better, or for worse, he was The Tenant .