The read-headed League

The story is narrated by Mr. Watson.

Mr. Watson visits to Mr. Holmes and meets him with a strange person. The person is large man with a
red face, small eyes and bright red hair.

This men is Mr. Jabez Wilson, he is a businessman.

Mr. Holmes sees him and discovers that this man was a workman, he has been writing, he has been in
china. Mr. Holmes says to visits, Mr. Watson and Mr. Wilson, their conclusion and they laugh. Then Mr.
Wilson says that Mr. Holmes is very clever.

Mr. Wilson described a strange situation to Mr. Holmes about a job that he got from an advertisement
and then lost. The job was for singular people and it was very well paid, but one day when he went to
work he found a sign that said that league had ceased to exist. The job was to copy the English
encyclopedia; it had to star with letter A. He was worried because he didn’t want to lose what they paid
them.

Mr. Holmes ask to Mr. Wilson how got the advertisement? He said that his assistant give him the
advertisement, also he said that his assistant went with him to the office in where he got the job and
offered look after the shop while he to work. Finally he described to his assistant, Spaulding, and the
secretary of the league. Mr. Holmes asks when Spaulding was started to work with him and he said
three months ago.

The visit left and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson chat about the case. Mr. Holmes takes a time to think and
smoke. Then they went to a concert of classical music, but before they went to the shop of the Mr.
Wilson. Mr. Holmes saw the stones in the street and then knocked on the shop’s door. The door was
opened and Spaulding go out, Mr. Holmes asked how get there to the Strand, also he saw the
Spaulding’s knee. Then they go to the concert.

Mr. Holmes thought that this case was serious. Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson agreed to meet at 10 p.m.,
Mr. Holmes ask Mr. Watson that bring his gun because will possibility be danger. When Mr. Watson
arrived he met two peoples, a policeman called Peter Jones and the director of the City and Suburban
Bank, Mr. Merryweather.

Mr. Holmes said to Mr. Jones and Mr. Merryweather that he thought that night would be exciting for
both of them, because they could catch two dangerous criminals.

They get on two carriages and went to the bank, when they arrived they checked the cellar. So they
discovered that the floor sounded empty. Mr. Holmes checked the floor with a magnifying glass and said
that probably have an hour more until arrive the thieves. They sat down and waited in the dark.
Suddenly they saw some light through the cracks in the floor. Someone pushed up a big stone and went
up to the cellar, it was Spaulding. Then he helps a friend up to the cellar, it was the secretary of the red-
headed league and accomplice of Mr. Wilson’s assistance.

Mr. Holmes ran forward and caught Spaulding, and then Spaulding told his friend to jump down the hole
again. The accomplice escaped, but Mr. Holmes told to Spaulding that there were three policemen
waited in the Mr. Wilson’s shop, so he couldn’t escape.

Mr. Merryweather said thanks to Mr. Holmes for preventing theft.

Mr. Holmes explains to Mr. Watson the case and his conclusion. Spaulding was a famous thief, it was
grandson of the king’s brother, and he was studied in Oxford. He was very clever. When Mr. Wilson to
describe his assistant and the secretary of the red headed league, Mr. Holmes suspected they were two
famous thieves.