Author · Theo Ashford·English
Coal arrives at three doors no one signed for, and the subscription book on Scrooge's step is still freezing the names in.
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On the coldest morning of the season, a charity subscription book is found frozen to the step outside Scrooge’s counting house. Its pages contain names of donors, amounts given, and promises of winter coal deliveries already marked as fulfilled. The difficulty is that several of the donors insist they never gave a penny, while three households swear the coal did arrive. Scrooge distrusts sentiment, but he distrusts unbalanced accounts even more. If generosity is being forged, someone is profiting from virtue; if it is not, then London has begun balancing books by means no clerk can explain.
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