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- A maid up ending of the Cask of Amontillado (i got an A-)
- There was none
-
- At precisely 10:30 A.M. I got a call from a Mr. Machiano saying while
- renovating a palazzo his men found the bones of a human. When I got to
- the scene one of his employees showed me to the bones. The clothes were
- still on the carcass. I asked Mr. Machiano how the body was discovered,
- "My men were knocking down the walls and one of them found a skeleton
- with its clothes on, and thatÆs when I called you." I asked whom he
- bought the palace from. "A man I would say in his early eighties, named
- Montresor." I then left to learn about this person.. I found out that
- he is living with a cousin right near his old home. I decided to stop
- by and ask him a few questions hoping he will remember or know
- something. After about an hour of getting "I do not know. What are you
- talking about? Please leave." I realized this was a waste of time and
- decided to go.
- Later that night while eating dinner I decided the next morning I would
- go back to the crime scene to check for clues. The next morning I
- called Mr. Machiano and asked him to meet me at the palazzo. As I
- approached the body I began to feel a little queasy from last nightÆs
- dinner but luckily I brought some herbal tea to help soothe my stomach.
- Anyway, I began to search the ground around the body hoping to find some
- clues. I noticed a gold bracelet on the ground near the body, and it
- read Montrsor. I decided to do a little more research on this man. I
- went to the station and asked the secretary to show me the file on any
- person missing for more than 20 years. The list only had about five
- people on it with a brief description. There was a man by the name of
- Fortunato on it who has been missing for about 50 years. He was last
- seen wearing a motley. I then put two and two together and after some
- investigation, I found out that the carcass was indeed Fortunato. Later
- that afternoon I decided to visit Mrs. Fortunato. She took the news
- pretty well, but I guess she had a feeling he was dead She said "The
- last time I saw him was fifty years ago during carnival season."
- I went back to MontresorÆs house and told him that "Next to FortunatoÆs
- body was a gold bracelet with your name on it." He still claimed to
- have nothing to do with the murder and had no idea how his bracelet got
- near the body. "It must have fallen off and sunk into the mortar."
- When I said that I could sense his nervousness. I asked him if he was
- okay, then I heard him mumble something. I asked him to say that louder
- I could not quite hear that. He said "I killed him, and I do not even
- regret it." He kept the murder a secret all these years because he did
- not want to go to jail. "Now you are definitely going to jail." I felt
- kind of bad bringing an eighty year old person to jail, but I had no
- choice.
- Epilogue
- Four years later Montresor died. The Trumpino Towers was completed and
- a big success!