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Wilson asks why Spaulding wishes for red hair. The assistant explains that another vacancy has opened in an organization called the Red-Headed League. There are supposedly more vacancies than suitable applicants, leaving the trustees unsure how to spend the available money. Wilson rarely leaves home and knows little local gossip, so he listens closely to this unexpected news.

"'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Red-headed Men.「『いやね』とあいつは言うんです。『赤毛組合にまた空きが出たんですよ。
It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what to do with the money.受かった人にはちょっとした財産になる話でしてね、聞いたところじゃ、空きの数のほうが人より多いもんだから、管財人たちはお金の使い道に困り果てているそうです。
If my hair would only change colour, here's a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.'この髪の色さえ変わってくれりゃ、おいしい勤め口がすぐにでも手に入るってのに』
"'Why, what is it, then?' I asked.「『へえ、それはいったい何なんだい？』と私は聞きました。
You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting my foot over the door-mat.なにしろホームズさん、私はひどい出不精でして、商売のほうから店に来てくれるので自分から出かける必要もなく、何週間も続けて玄関マットの外へ一歩も出ないことがよくあったんです。
In that way I didn't know much of what was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news.そんなわけで世間のことはあまり知らず、ちょっとした噂話でも聞けると、いつもうれしかったんですよ。