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<p><font face="돋움" size="2" color="#333333"><b>THE CRYSTAL EGG</b><br>By Hy Conrad</font></p>
<p><font face="돋움" size="2" color="#333333">"If you want to stay this evening," Sharona had warned him, "then you'll have to <a href="(참다,견디다)"><font color="#006699">put up with</font></a> my friends. I am not canceling tonight. End of story."
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<p>That had been four hours ago. Now the evening was almost over and Adrian Monk had to admit, it wasn't so bad. Two old classmates from nursing school had come to dinner, with Monk as the fourth. Benjy, Sharona's son, had <a href="(급히 가다)"><font color="#006699">run off</font></a> to a friend's house, to do homework.
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<p>"Anyone for more coffee?" Justine asked as she brought out a full <a href="(유리물병)"><font color="#006699">carafe</font></a>. With the meal over, they had <a href="(자리를 옮기다)"><font color="#006699">adjourned</font></a> to the balcony. Monk stayed by the French doors, as far as possible from the balcony edge.
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<p>"Take a look at this." Sharona had disappeared into her bedroom and reappeared a moment later holding a crystal object about the size of an oddly shaped tennis ball.
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<p>Melba clapped her hands. "A Mendall egg." She read from the <a href="(에칭된)"><font color="#006699">etched</font></a> surface. "Summer, 1970." And then she screamed with <a href="(기쁨)"><font color="#006699">glee</font></a>.
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<p>All three nurses collected these crystal eggs, and this, it seemed, was a particularly <a href="(희귀한 표본)"><font color="#006699">hard-to-find specimen</font></a>. "I took Adrian to a flea market," Sharona said. "He spotted it immediately, in the middle of all this junk."
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<p>Monk's pride was <a href="(조절되다, 경감되다)"><font color="#006699">tempered</font></a> by a <a href="(경련)"><font color="#006699">spasm</font></a> of fear. Why did everyone insist on standing on the balcony? And why had Sharona left the egg balanced on the <a href="(난간)"><font color="#006699">railing</font></a>?
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<p>Justine freshened everyone's coffee and the women finally <a href="(침묵했다)"><font color="#006699">lapsed into silence</font></a>. All were looking out in different directions, enjoying the view and the <a href="(미풍)"><font color="#006699">breeze</font></a>. And then their <a href="(백일몽)"><font color="#006699">reverie</font></a> was interrupted by a soft <a href="(떨어지거나 빠지는 소리, 풍덩, 펑)"><font color="#006699">plop</font></a>.
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<p>Everyone looked to the railing. The space between Justine and Melba was suddenly empty. "It fell off," Monk shouted, trying to control his anxiety. "Your crystal egg. Why did you leave it..."
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<p>"It fell in the pond," Sharona said, leaning over the railing to the garden one <a href="(층)"><font color="#006699">story</font></a> below. "<a href="(큰일/별일 아냐.)"><font color="#006699">No big deal.</font></a> I'll get it."
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<p>Sharona headed for the front door, while Melba took in the tray with the cups and the full carafe of coffee. "I'll start cleaning up," she called off to Sharona.
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<p>"Are the jackets in your bedroom?" said Justine. "I gotta get home if I'm going to get to work tomorrow."
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<p>Monk didn't know what to do. One of Sharona's old classmates was trying to steal her Mendall egg.
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<p><b>WHICH WOMAN DID MONK SUSPECT?<br>
HOW DID SHE PLAN TO STEAL IT?</b>
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첫댓글 I had to post it to calm down everyone who is involved in the very 'lover' and 'stone' poem posted by hera right below.