‘It’s worth a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men.’ “‘Here’s a vacancy on the League of the Red-headed Men,’ said he. “Spaulding, he came into the office eight weeks ago, with this paper in his hand and said: We live very quietly, sir, the three of us. He and a girl of fourteen, who does simple cooking and keeps the place clean – that’s all I have in the house, for I am a widower. That is his main fault, but he’s a good worker.” He slips away with a camera when he ought to be working, and then dives down into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. “He is very much interested in photography. Your assistant is as remarkable as your advertisement.” “Why, indeed? You seem most lucky to have an assistant for half wages. But, after all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head? ” Holmes and I know very well that he could earn twice what I am able to give him. “His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he’s not very young. “What is the name of this young man?” asked Sherlock Holmes. I used to be able to keep two assistants, but now I keep one and I can do it only because he agrees to work for half wages to learn the business.” It’s not very large, and it has just given me a living. Sherlock Holmes,” said Jabez Wilson “I have a small pawnbroker’s business at Coburg Square, near the City. “It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Make a note, Doctor, of the paper and the date.” Wilson, tell us all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this advertisement had on your life. “What does this mean?” I exclaimed after I had twice read the advertisement. Apply on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7, Fleet Street. All red-headed men who are above the age of twenty-one years, are eligible. , there is now another vacancy open for a member of the League with a salary of 4 pounds a week. On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. I took the paper from him and read as follows. “I begin to think, Watson,” said Holmes, “that I make a mistake in explaining. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all.” “The fish that you have tattooed on your hand could only be done in China.
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“Your right cuff is so shiny, and the left one has a patch near the elbow where you put it on the desk.” “I won’t tell you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more developed.” Your right hand is much larger than your left. “How did you know, for example, that I worked with my hands? It’s true, for I began as a carpenter.” “Except the facts that he has at some time worked with his hands, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a lot of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.” There was nothing remarkable about the man except his blazing red head. Our visitor looked like a common British tradesman. As he glanced down the advertisement column, I took a good look at the man and tried, like my companion, to read what his dress or appearance could tell me. The client, looking a little proud, took a newspaper from the pocket of his coat. As a rule, when I have heard some story, I am able to think of the thousands of other similar cases. Watson, has not heard the beginning but also because your story makes me anxious to hear every detail. I ask you not only because my friend, Dr. As far as I have heard, it is impossible for me to say whether this case is an example of crime or not, but events are certainly very unusual. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call upon me this morning and go begin a story which promises to be one of the most unusual which I have listened to for some time. “Your cases have been of the greatest interest to me,” I observed. You have shown it by the enthusiasm with which you chronicled so many of my adventures,” said Holmes. “I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is outside the routine of everyday life. The gentleman half rose from his chair and nodded. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of use to me in yours also.” “ You could not have come at a better time, my dear Watson,” Holmes said. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him speaking to an elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.