"The Cask of Amontillado"
by Edgar Allan Poe

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      "Pass your hand over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. Indeed it is very damp. Once more let me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power."

      "The Amontillado!"

      "True, the Amontillado. The Amontillado."

 

      As I said these words I busied myself among the pile of bones of which I have before spoken. Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar. With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche.

 
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