Cask of amontillado 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 that's 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.