With the case solved, he calls Inspector Jones and Mr Merryweather. Holmes then taps on the pavement in front of the pawnbroker's shop. After Holmes' client leaves, having given the detective a description of Spaulding, the detective decides to see Spaulding, whom he notices has dirty trouser knees. Wilson went to the landlord, who said that he had never heard of Duncan Ross, the person who formed the league. He was well-paid for several weeks of doing obviously useless clerical busywork in a lonely office, but finally one morning a sign on the locked office door inexplicably announces "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED". The next morning, Wilson had waited in a long line of fellow red-headed men, was interviewed and was the only applicant hired. He tells them that his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, some weeks ago had shown him and urged him to respond to a want-ad offering work to only red-headed male applicants. Set in 1890, a London businessman named Jabez Wilson comes to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson.
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