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whispers to me that somebody somehow has got wind of some embarrassing detail, and this devil—or whoever is hiding behind him—is using it to threaten and blackmail you so as to use your money to buy his silence (and also the ruins of Hebron). If that’s the way of it, I implore you once more to give me the slightest signal and you’ll see how elegantly I defuse their explosive device for you.
Meanwhile, following the instructions in your telegram, I put a small private investigator onto Sommo (our old friend Shlomo Zand), and I attach the report. If you take the trouble to read it attentively, you will no doubt realize that if it comes to intimidation, we also have something to go on, and we can easily persuade the gentleman in question that two can play at that game. Just give me the go-ahead, and I’ll send Zand to him for a nice little tête-à-tête. I guarantee that within ten minutes it’ll be all quiet on the eastern front. You won’t hear another cheep out of them.
So there are three documents enclosed with this letter: (a) Zand’s report on Sommo; (b) Zand’s assistant’s report on the boy B. B.; (c) photocopies of the decision of the Rabbinical Court in the matter of the termination of your marriage and of the decision of the District Court on your lovely’s claim against you. I have underlined the important parts for you in red. But do try not to forget that the whole business ended more than seven years ago, and that now it is no more than ancient history.
So much for what you asked me to do in your telegram. I hope that at least you are pleased with me, because I’m not at all pleased with you. I await further instructions, in my usual humble way. Just don’t go mad, for God’s sake.
Your very anxious

Manfred
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    PERSONAL ZAKHEIM JERUSALEM ISRAEL
     
    YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR AUTHORITY PAY THE HUNDRED PRECISELY INSTANTER AND STOP PESTERING ME ALEX
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    A GIDEON NICFOR LONDON
     
    IVE PAID RESIGN FROM HANDLING YOUR AFFAIRS AWAIT IMMEDIATE INSTRUCTIONS ON TRANSFER OF YOUR PAPERS YOU ARE STARK STARING MAD MANFRED ZAKHEIM
     
    PERSONAL ZAKHEIM JERUSALEM ISRAEL
     
    YOUR RESIGNATION NOT ACCEPTED TAKE A COLD SHOWER CALM DOWN AND BE A GOOD BOY ALEX
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    A GIDEON NICFOR LONDON
     
    MY RESIGNATION STANDS GO TO HELL ZAKHEIM
     
    PERSONAL ZAKHEIM JERUSALEM ISRAEL
     
    DONT LEAVE ME IM MISERABLE ALEX
     
    A GIDEON NICFOR LONDON
     
    IM LEAVING THIS EVENING ARRIVE AT NICHOLSONS EARLY MORNING JUST DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID IN THE MEANTIME YOURS MANFRED
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    To Michael Sommo
    Tarnaz 7
    Jerusalem
     
Hello Michel. Look Ill come strate to the point with you—I need a lone. Im working hard for your brother in law Abram Abudram, Im shifting crates of vegtibles all day. You can check with him that Im OK. Im happy too because he treats me fare and pays daily and even gives me two meals a day. Thanks for fixing it up. The lone is to by materials to build a do it yourself telescop. Your friend Janin (Mrs. Fuks) as you no also fixed me up as a night watchman (with acomodation) at the Planetarium for nothing. I mean they dont pay me and I dont pay them. But if Im good enough at optikal equipment that Im getting the hang of and theyve got a vacancy their even going to pay me a little. The outcome is I havent hardly got any expenses, only incom. But I want to start on the telescop rite away and the price is 4000 pounds so Im asking you to lend me 3000 (Ive already got 1000 put away). Ill pay you back 300 a month out of my pay, assuming you dont want any interest. If you cant or its just dificult for you forget it never mind. In the meantime I havent killed anyone yet. The only thing Im asking is dont let the woman know anything about it. To you personaly and the little girl all the best. Thanks
     
    Boaz B.
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    For Boaz Brandstetter
Via Abraham Abudarham
The Wholesale Market
Carlebach Street, Tel Aviv
    By the Grace of G-d

Jerusalem

First intermediate day of Passover

(16.4.76)
     
Dear Boaz,
I received your letter