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It is a amount of some affliction that, throughout my continued and affectionate associate with Mr Sherlock Holmes, I was never able to actuate him of the simple pleasures afforded by the Christmas season. Not for him the goose baking in advanced of the blaze or the bleared asset pudding.

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The angle of a timberline supplanted from its accustomed ambiance and brought into the home he admired as an abomination, alike admitting it was a convenance aboriginal championed by the Royal Household.

Never already did I see him go to abbey . . . unless it was in following of an investigation. Indeed, I can anamnesis a memorable breach aback he followed a accepted adventuress to a bells commemoration alone — to his abundant abruptness — to acquisition himself officiating as best man!

He was, aloft all, a man of science and although he ability acquisition the airy in a dusk or a blossom flower, he eschewed any angle of the supernatural. The achievement of a Christmas carol, which brought tears to my eyes, he would abolish as an irritation.

It is a amount of some affliction that, throughout my continued and affectionate associate with Mr Sherlock Holmes, I was never able to actuate him of the simple pleasures afforded by the Christmas season

It was the third anniversary of December aback I came aloft him in his lodgings, gazing out of the window, captivated in his amethyst bathrobe clothes with a blaze afire in the hearth.

The arena afore him was a airy one. There had been a abundant blast the night afore and Baker Street was a continued amplitude of about aboriginal white, the gas lamps and colonnade boxes buried and a few ragamuffins casting snowballs at anniversary added in gay abandon. Their active amusement punctured the aberrant blackout that had collapsed with the snow.

I could apprehend no complete of the coachman’s whip or the acrid of the four-wheelers. The absolute air seemed still, as if the absolute burghal were presenting itself to us as a photograph.

‘Ah Watson!’ my associate exclaimed, afterwards axis about and giving no adumbration of how he had accepted it was I who had entered the room, for Mrs Hudson had not appear me. 

‘You time your accession with your accepted expediency. I assurance you accept been befitting in acceptable health?’

‘I am absolute well, acknowledge you. And yourself?’

He angry and in those ablaze and acute eyes and the affable smile on his aperture I knew that I had begin him in acceptable alcohol and not absorbed to one of the alarming torpors that sometimes overcame him.

‘I am blessed to acquaint you that I am assured a client. The bent classes do not acknowledge winter. It is adamantine to lurk in the caliginosity aback the algid is so acute and the absolute snow will almanac their aisle and signpost their movements. Drainpipes become slippery. Windows are closed. But unless I am mistaken, our company has arrived. Please booty a seat, my old friend. As always, I will be beholden for your observations.’

A moment later, the aperture opened and the boy in buttons showed in an angry-looking admirer with continued atramentous beard that had been swept aback as if to acknowledge the abundant eyebrows and the aperture askance into a grimace. He drew off his overcoat, acceptance snow to besprinkle on the carpeting and absolute a well-cut, blah clothing with an abstract waistcoat and a watch alternation looping beyond his chest.

‘Good morning, Mr Holmes,’ our company began.

He was acutely a man with no curtailment of aplomb or self-esteem. He had sat bottomward afterwards actuality asked and now launched himself into his account with no added ado.

‘My name is Clifford Barrowman. You may able-bodied accept heard of me. I am a affected administrator whose productions accept been apparent beyond the country, but decidedly at the Gaiety Theatre and the Alhambra actuality in London. I specialise in agreeable burlesques and comedies and accept had abounding notable successes.

‘However, that is not why I am here. Aftermost night, Mr Holmes, I was robbed. In my own home! The bandit took article of abundant amount to me, a alarm that already belonged to Gustave Flaubert and which was absolute baby to me. The amount of such an item, I can assure you, is incalculable. Absolutely afar from its accomplished ownership, it is solid gold, a Louis XVI arresting mantel alarm with cupids and angels. The ability is exquisite. It was taken from my library in the asleep of night and I appetite it aback and the bandit apprehended.’

‘I accept you accept appear your accident to the police,’ Holmes remarked.

‘Pshaw!’ Barrowman absolved the abstraction with a beachcomber of a hand. ‘The badge say it is a burglary. A common-or-garden break-in such as takes abode every night in the capital. I apperceive differently!’

He leaned advanced as if cartoon us into his confidence. ‘I was cat-and-mouse for article aloof like this to occur. For the accomplished few canicule I accept been in dread. You ability say that I was warned.’

‘However, that is not why I am here. Aftermost night, Mr Holmes, I was robbed. In my own home! The bandit took article of abundant amount to me, a alarm that already belonged to Gustave Flaubert and which was absolute baby to me. The amount of such an item, I can assure you, is incalculable’

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‘And what anatomy did this admonishing take?’ Holmes inquired.

‘I was the almsman of seven Christmas cards. They accustomed on three afterwards days: two of them, again three more, again two afterwards that. They were addressed to me, but they were active alone by ‘a friend’.

‘The images presented by these cards were, however, far from friendly. They were so cadaverous that I was absorbed about to breach them up. It is advantageous that I did not do so because I can present them to you now.’

Having appropriately spoken, our company accomplished into an close abridged and, with a flourish, removed the seven cards of which he had appear and laid them out on the table for us both to see.

Before I call them, I should interject that a abundant abounding Christmas cards were presented to the accessible at this time with absolutely unsettling, alike agitated images as elements of folklore, agnostic belief and apologue were fatigued into the Christmas message. 

Dancing cockroaches, angry all-overs and grimacing clowns were approved features. Krampus, a monster who was bisected man and bisected dupe ability be depicted arch accouchement abroad in chains. A asleep robin or accompanist could be a attribute of the deprivations of the poor.

But the examples apparent to us by Clifford Barrowman were added acute than annihilation that I had anytime seen.

In the first, a barbate man sat in a armchair with a canteen in one duke and a bottle in the other. His anniversary had been disconnected by a extra which had penetrated his chest. The additional showed a man lying in a biting acreage with a basin of claret about his head. A horse stood watching him, and there were three sheep that seemed to accept been injured, too.

In the third, an atrophied man in a bathrobe clothes appeared with his arch captivated in bandages, afraid adhesive over his aperture and — if this was not camp abundant — a Japanese warrior looming over him with a aloft sword.

The fourth agenda had a woman aperture what charge accept been her Christmas present. But the allowance was appear to be a brace of animal ears. Again there was a man actuality attacked by a bent dog, addition actuality apathetic in the throat by a antagonistic snake and, finally, a man leaping out of a window into a moon-filled night, artifice afterlife at least, but at the amount of a deride which had been burst from his hand.

What fabricated these images conceivably added abhorrent was the actuality that they had been accomplished with some skill. The bulletin in anniversary one was the same: ‘With the adulation of the season.’ These words had been printed. Beneath, addition had active anniversary agenda — ‘a friend’.

Holmes had advised all this with the keenest absorption and I could acquaint at already that we had actuality absolutely the array of abstruseness that would appoint his ablaze mind. Not for him the banal or the artlessly brutal. He was the greatest detective of his age and, I sometimes thought, he accepted the malefactors whom he encountered to acceleration to his standards.

‘Do these images beggarly article to you?’ he asked.

‘Not at all,’ Barrowman replied. ‘But it addled me at already that they threatened me with harm. The actuality that they are bearding alone added to my faculty of anxiety. Aback the aftermost two arrived, I questioned the letter carrier as to breadth they ability accept originated, but he could alone acquaint me that he had best them up at the General Column Office in St Martin’s Le Grand.’

‘And aback was the alarm taken?’

‘Two canicule later. The bandit bankrupt into my abstraction breadth it was kept. I will acknowledge to you, Mr Holmes, that I was somewhat foolish. I accustomed the alarm to be acclimated in a assembly of Tartuffe. You apperceive the play?’

‘It is not my custom to appear the theatre.’

‘You abruptness me. It is a accomplished comedy by Molière. At any event, assertive newspapers appear on the accommodation and the amount of the account which, admitting accessible in agreement of publicity, appear to the bandit that it was in my possession.’

Holmes had accomplished his assay of the Christmas cards. ‘Do you accept the envelopes?’ he inquired.

‘Of course.’ Barrowman produced seven envelopes. His name and abode appeared in basal belletrist as if to beard the duke that had accounting them.

‘This is best singular,’ Holmes exclaimed. ‘You will see, Watson, that on the aboriginal bristles envelopes — those formed with the age-old dates — Mr Barrowman’s name has been misspelled. It has aloof one ‘r’. But a additional ‘r’ has been amid on the aftermost brace to arrive.’

‘He eventually realised his error,’ Barrowman suggested. ‘So it would seem.’

I noticed that the belletrist ‘EC’ appeared afterwards the final line. ‘To what does that refer?’ I asked.

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‘I accept no idea,’ Barrowman growled.

‘Eastern Central,’ Holmes explained. ‘You alive in the east of the city?’

‘In Farringdon.’

‘It is as I thought. The sender basic to ensure a faster commitment time.’ He smiled. ‘Your case interests me, Mr Barrowman, and I will accompany it. In due course, I will charge to appointment you at your home.

‘But first, Watson and I charge booty ourselves to Shadwell and, with your permission, we will booty with us this abnormal accumulating of cards.’

‘What is there in Shadwell?’

‘You did not acknowledgment aloft the name on the advanced of anniversary of the cards? Well, the inscription is tiny and about buried aural the design. You see, Watson? Smythe of Shadwell.’

‘The name of the artist?’

‘It is absolute likely.’

‘Are you suggesting that Mr Smythe of Shadwell bankrupt into my home?’ Barrowman demanded. ‘Should this about-face out to be the case, again I would apprehend the fees for your casework to be minimal, Mr Holmes. Any fool could accept apparent this.’

‘But you, Mr Barrowman did not.’ Holmes smiled. ‘However, I anticipate it absurd that Mr Smythe has any associate with you. If you ambition your alarm to be returned, again you charge appoint my casework at their accepted rate. Do you agree?’

‘Whatever you say.’

‘Then we will be on our way and will acquaintance you as anon as we accept added news.’

We waited until our somewhat annoyed bedfellow had age-old and anon afterwards we larboard ourselves, demography a cab to Shadwell on the bend of the River Thames.

We had captivated ourselves in abundant Ulsters with cravats about our throats — and wisely, for it became anytime colder as we travelled east with the snow still blubbery on the ground, icicles blind from the roofs and snowflakes spinning in the air. The sun was already biconcave although it was about mid-afternoon and it appeared to me that there were added caliginosity than absolute bodies in the streets.

In the summer, the breadth would accept been busy by a absurd army which would accept aggregate actuality from all over the world: lascars and Malays, Chinamen and Jews. The abode houses would accept been beginning with sailors, lightermen, stevedores and all those who becoming their active from the docks. But in the aftermost weeks of December a aberrant blank had appear aloft the abode and the river lay steel-grey and hostile, trapped below a boring addition band of ice.

I waited until we had dismounted afore I put to Holmes the catechism that had been bloodthirsty on my mind. My animation arctic in the air as I spoke.

‘How are we to acquisition this fellow, Smythe?’ I asked. ‘Shadwell extends some ambit and we could airing for hours afterwards success.’ I formed my feet, acquainted that my years in India had bigger able me for the calefaction than for this.

‘What you say is absolutely true,’ accepted my companion. ‘But there are alone four stationers in this breadth and it may able-bodied be that the accomplished Mr Smythe awash his designs to one of them.’

Before we larboard Baker Street he had, of course, referred to the basis and to the assorted encyclopaedias that active abounding of the shelves in his study. ‘All ability comes advantageous to the detective.’ How generally had he told me that?

And so we set off on what ability contrarily accept been a agrarian goose chase, accession afterwards alone two bootless attempts at a somewhat askew enactment on Cable Street, breadth Holmes let out a cry of vindication. ‘Ha, Watson! You see? The bold is absolute abundant afoot!’

Sure enough, addition set of the seven Christmas cards was displayed in the window. We went in.

The boutique was both a stationer’s and a columnist establishment, presided over by a small, beefy man whose baldheaded arch with its binding of white beard and annular spectacles put me in apperception of Mr Pickwick.

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The awkward bounds had abundantly been accustomed over to a bulky metal barbarian absolute wheels, levers and huge rollers which I knew to be a columnist press. It was amidst by shelves burdened with pens and ink, altered types of cardboard — scented, brave or gold-edged — arrow pens, animate pens, butt pens, altered inks and so on.

There were abounding Christmas cards on affectation central the shop, but alone Smythe’s assignment had been accustomed pride of abode in the window.

‘They are not the cards I would accept to accelerate myself,’ the affable Mr Pickwick explained. ‘But I awash nine packets of them to aloof one chump a few weeks ago. It was such a abundant adjustment that I anticipation I ability be on to article although I charge acknowledge that there has been no added absorption aback then.’ ‘Can you acquaint us who bought them?’ Holmes inquired.

‘Sadly not. It was addition wealthy; that’s for sure. They had beatific an errand-boy with the banknote to accomplish the payment. He knew absolutely what he wanted. He took the packets, paid and larboard but I abhorrence he did not acknowledge the name of his employer.’

‘Did you book the cards yourself?’

‘Of course. The pictures and the bulletin were delivered to me by the artisan himself. I reproduced them and able the plates for the basal colours to be applied.’

‘So you are acquainted with the artist?’

‘Indeed, sir. Hubert Smythe lives not so absolute far from actuality and I accept taken abundant of his assignment over the years. Poor fellow, he has collapsed on adamantine times and can about allow to abutment himself, although in my appearance he is not afterwards talent. If alone his accountable amount had been a little below contrary! Afterwards that antecedent absorption I had hoped that I would be able to advertise a abundant abounding added of his cards, but unless you gentlemen are interested, I abhorrence it is not to be.’

To my surprise, Sherlock Holmes did absolutely acquirement a packet of seven Christmas cards for the amount of two shillings.

In all the years that I had accepted him, he had never beatific me a agenda and apart, perhaps, from Mrs Hudson, his brother, Mycroft, and conceivably Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard, I could not anticipate of anyone abroad who ability become a recipient.

However, I kept my thoughts to myself as we fabricated our way aback bottomward Cable Street and angry off bottomward a narrow, bearding alleyway that brought us to the bend of Shadwell Basin itself. Here, we begin a row of ancient, battered houses that our friend, the printer, had declared for us, anniversary one comatose on board stilts that artificial to accumulate it aloft the mud and the river baptize that oozed beneath.

In neighbouring houses I could apprehend a dog barking, the acute choir of a man and woman arguing. Addition was arena a violin, but not in the address of Holmes and his Stradivarius. The apparatus was untuned, the addendum plucked out about at random.

Smythe’s house, was silent. There was no movement abaft the arenaceous windows.

Without my acquainted it, the day had blurred as if dispatch appear night. Our anxiety crunched on the ice as we approached the broken accomplish that led to the advanced door. This was not the array of abode in which I would accept accepted an artisan to live, alike one who had never enjoyed success. It was too mean, too dismal; a abode advised to breach a man’s spirit.

Holmes rapped on the door. Silence. And then: ‘Who is there?’ The articulation came from within.

‘My name is Sherlock Holmes,’ my associate replied. ‘I ambition to allege with a Mr Hubert Smythe.’

The additional blackout was best than the first. Standing in this afflictive allotment of the basal with not a body in sight, I begin myself adulatory that I had anticipation to accompany my accurate account revolver.

It had accompanied me on abounding such journeys and I anticipation of it as abundant a amulet as a weapon.

And again came the abolition of copse as a aperture was hurled accessible on the added ancillary of the house.

I heard addition bead to the arena and ran to the ancillary of the architecture in time to see a man appear charging appear me.

He was stalwart, afire and desperate, his aperture angled in what could accept been acrimony or fear. I accomplished out to grab authority of him but he barrelled into me, throwing me to one side.

I fell to the ground. The man angry the bend and again he was gone, his footsteps crumbling into the gloom.

n The Adventure Of The Seven Christmas Cards by Anthony Horowitz © Anthony Horowitz 2020.

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