SUSPENSE STORY

This is really a great suspense...
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> Read it carefully to know what it is.
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> A man is driving down the road and breaks down near
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> a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the
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> door, and says, My car broke down. Do you think I
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> could stay the night?
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> the monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner,
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> even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep,
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> he hears a strange sound. The next morning, he asks
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> the monks what the sound was, but they say, We
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> can't tell you. You're not a monk.
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> The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and
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> goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same
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> man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The
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> monks again accept him, feed him, even fix his car.
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> That night, he hears the same strange noise that he
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> The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks
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> The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to
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> was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?
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> The monks reply, You must travel the earth and tell
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> us how many blades of grass there are and the exact
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> number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers,
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> you will become a monk.
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> The man sets ! about his task. Some forty-five years
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> monastery. He says, I have traveled the earth and
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> have found what you have asked for. There are
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> 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and
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> 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.
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> The monks reply, Congratulations. You are now a
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> monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound.
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> The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the
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> head monk says, The sound is right behind that
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> The man reaches for the knob, but the door is
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
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> Behind the wooden door is another door made of
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> stone. The man demands the key to the stone door.
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to
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> find a door! made of ruby. He demands another key
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> from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is
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> another door, this one made of sapphire. So it went
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> until the man had gone through doors of emerald,
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> silver, topaz, and amethyst.
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> Finally, the monks say, This is the last key to the
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> The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door,
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> turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to
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> find the source of that strange sound.
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> . . . . But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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> DON'T HUNT ME DOWN 'COS I'M STILL HUNTING THE PERSON WHO SENT ME THIS