{"id":4599,"date":"2019-06-16T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T04:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2020-05-09T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T04:06:05","slug":"the-cask-of-amontillado-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/16\/the-cask-of-amontillado-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cask of Amontillado, Part 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Edgar Allan Poe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adapted to chat story format by Captivated Chat<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_Great_Darkness_Approaches_Can_You_Feel_It.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Tap icon above at left to pause or resume music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-part-3.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Tap arrow above to listen to this story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> 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.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> The Amontillado!\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> True, the Amontillado.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> That scraping sound, what are you doing?\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Mixing a quantity of mortar.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Is this wall unsound, then?\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Not high enough to suit me.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> New stones! Muhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Uhhhhhmmmm.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Your intoxication has in a great measure worn off.\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h4>Bottom line?<\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>(5 mins later)<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within.<\/p>\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Heeeeelp! Someone! Help! Heeeeeeeelp! \u00a0Aaii!-Aaah!-Aaaah!\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Heeeeelp! Heeeeeeeelp! \u00a0Aaii! Someone!\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier.\u00a0Indeed, I\u00a0had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato.<\/p>\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Ha-ha ha!\u2014he-he he!\u2014a very good joke indeed\u2014an excellent jest.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> We shall have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo\u2014he! he! he!\u2014over our wine\u2014he! he! he!&#8221;\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> The Amontillado!\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h4>Getting late<\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div class=\"CV-messages-container CV-mainContainer-android\" style=\" background: none; background-color: #cc0000;\"><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Ha! ha! ha!\u2014he! ha! ha!\u2014yes, the Amontillado. But is it not getting late? Will not they be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let us be gone.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Yes, let us be gone.\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-incomingMessagePhoto CV-incomingMessagePhoto-android\" style=\" background-image: url(https:\/\/captivatedchat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cask-Fortunato-e1560201292687.jpg); \"><\/div><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-incomingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Fortunato<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-incomingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> For the love of God, Montresor!\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Yes, for the love of God! Why do you not answer?\n\n\nMe: Fortunato!\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"msg-container CV-messageContainer-android\" style=\"\"><div class=\"CV-message-author CV-outgoingAuthor-android\" style=\"\">Me<\/div><div class=\"CV-message CV-outgoing CV-outgoingMessage-android \" style=\"\"> Again, no answer? Fortunato\u2014\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in reply only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick on account of the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to make an end of my labour, forced the last stone into its position, and plastered it up. Against the\u00a0new masonry\u00a0I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. <em>In pace requiescat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edgar Allan Poe Adapted to chat story format by Captivated Chat Bottom line? (5 mins later) When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. 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