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- We went on, deeper and deeper into the earth. Finally we arrived at a vault in which the air was so old and heavy that our lights almost died. Against three of the walls there were piles of bones higher than our heads. From the fourth wall someone had pulled down all the bones, and they were spread all around us on the ground. In the middle of the wall was an opening into another vault, if I can call it that — a little room about three feet wide, six or seven feet high, and perhaps four feet deep. It was hardly more than a holein the wall.
- “Go on,” I said. “Go in; the Amontillado is in there.”
- He stood there a moment, facing the wall, surprised and wondering. In that wall were two heavy iron rings. A short chain was hanging from one of these and a lock from the other. Before Fortunato could guesswhat was happening, I closed the lock and chained him tightly to the wall.
- “Fortunato,” I said. “Put your hand against the wall. You must feel how the water runs over it. Once more I ask you, please, will you not go back? No? If not, then I must leave you. But first I must do everything I can for you.”
- “But...But the Amontillado?”
- I continued working. I could hear him pulling at the chain, shak-ing it wildly. Only a few stones remained to put in their place.
- “Yes. Let us go.”
- “Of course. As we drink the Amontillado.”
- “Montresor! What are you doing!?”
- “Montresor! Ha-ha. This is a very good joke, indeed. Many times will we laugh about it — ha-ha — as we drink our wine together — ha-ha.”
- “But is it not late? Should we not be going back? They will be expecting us. Let us go.”
- “Yes. For the love of God!”
- “Montresor! For the love of God!!”
- “Fortunato!” I cried. “Fortunato.”
- May he rest in peace!
- I heard only a soft, low sound, a half-cry of fear. My heart grew sick; it must have been the cold. I hurriedto force the last stone into its position. And I put the old bones again in a pile against the wall. For half a century now no human hand has touched them.
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