| Show lena Is once more without a home EW YORK lena Is homeless N NEW agalli again boleslo To leslo a youth who lodged on the top bor of the six story tenement nta nt 2 idar carmine w ine street escorted tier lier to hla his hoarding boarding house nt at night in the hallway they passed emilios Erol llos landlady mrs T theresa heresa cassasa who followed them with a gaze baleful and suspicious pi cious scarcely had door closed behind him when it opened again ona and in stalked Mrs Cassasa she upbraid ed cringing the young woman into ae the house sought to pacify her mrs Cassa cassasa sn a veritable fury sprang toward the girl snatching up PP a knife fram the table emillo intervened ter venea and the ilie thrust which might have been intended only fo to intimidate lena penetrated ills hla cl chest bliest iest As emillo fell se the haft of oc the knife sticking up grotesquely y through faigh his blue serge coat lena sprang and stid caught him and cradled his liend head in her arms arins mrs cassasa Cas aasa drained of kur fury y also leaned over emillo promise me P she demanded promise that you will not tell 1 I will not tell muttered emilio then lena found her voice for forthe the first time since the termagant lind had entered the room 1 I will she ille cried 1 I tell the police and bring a doctor and a priest estill 1 she ran out mrs Cassa six got the form of tier her lodger r to the led bed and laid ailin in it she went downstairs ail and got a candle which the priest had blessed and sat at the bedside holding it sho she was when the door opened and dr james hayes hayea from st vincents hospital entered the door opened again and a priest walked in ile he went straight to tile the wounded man and began administering tile the last rites of the church again the door opened mrs CAB sasa scarce scarcely fy waited for the sight might of blue coat and brass but buttons bunions ions without a word and with tile the holy candle still clutched in her hand she ahe leaped at the window at the beati of the bed she plunged down to the pavement she was dead when they reached her emilio who was taken to st vincents hospital would not say a word informed she was dead and that he probably wins was dy dying ink emilio told hla his story lena never came back nor has hag anything been I 1 learned earned con concerning concerti cerni ng tier lier except want emilio told he sald her name wits was lena and added with ill iro pressia e earnestness that she bad no home |
