Note 261 — GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE.
Robert Cæsar Childers translation
That is, twice a thousand pieces from each of the hundred merchants. But of course he should have paid out of this sum the price of the cargo. It can scarcely be intended to suggest that his acuteness led him to go off without paying for the cargo. The omission must be a slip of the story-teller’s.