Dr Alex confirms that the amount he needs is $35,000. That's US $, too; none of this Australian peso stuff.
Dear Friar Tuck,
Your mail received this morning.
You are to send the sum of US$35,500 (Thirty-five Thousand, Five Hundred United States Dollars Only) which represents the 0.1% of your contract payment.
Best regards and be guided.
Rev. Adams.
My Dear Brother,
I am shocked. I realize now that I did see the figure. Only I thought you were referring to the whole amount of the transaction.
You want $35,000. This is not the sort of money a monastery carries in a jam jar in the vestry you know! I do not know what church you belong to but it must have a more generous congregation that we can muster.
Is there another option?
I remain, most humbly,
Tuck.
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Like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking
in secret places.
- Psalm 17:12.