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Vincent Spalding, a pawnbroker at Jabez s, told him of The Red-Headed League, which had been set up in the will of a red-headed millionaire in America to give the red-headed man a comfortable job with the interest of his estate. So whoever was selected could do very little work and get an allowance of two hundred pounds a year. Jabez then took part in a large number of applications and was selected. His task was to copy The Encyclopaedia Britannica from ten o clock in the morning to two o clock in the afternoon in a designated room, during which he was strictly forbidden to leave.