"the cask of amontillado" no answer still. i thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. there came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. my heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. i hastened to make an end of my labour. i forced the last stone into its position; i plastered it up. against the new masonry i re-erected the old rampart of bones. for the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. in pace requiescat! based on the text above, what is the narrator trying to get across to the reader? *