Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Yellow Face & The Stock-Broker's Clerk (p402-429)

The Yellow Face was a short adventure of Sherlock Holmes. In this memoir, Holmes returns to his house and is bored because he does not have a case to work on. But as he enters, Watson tells him that a man stopped by but left because he was not there. Holmes find out that he left his pipe and was sure he would be back. The man, Mr. Grant Munro, had returned and told Holmes what his problem was. His wife had been hiding something from him and would not tell him what it was. She said it would be better for him to not know. He also told him her background and that he had caught his wife sneaking to a neighboring cottage. Upon seeing this cottage he also saw a person with a yellow face in the window. He wondered what it was but his wife continuously told him that it would be better if he did not know. But one day he did go into the cottage and every room was empty. When he told Homes, he agreed on going to the cottage. Once they did unannounced, Holmes found a child with a yellow mask on. So he peeled it off and found it to be an African American child. When Munro's wife found out he knew, she told him that the child was hers and she was hiding her from him. In the end the story finished happily with no racist remarks, which is in a way rare for its time.
In the Stock-Broker's Clerk a clerk named Hall Pycroft went to Holmes and told him about a company that offered him a well paying job. So him and Watson went on a train to where the job is supposed to be. There, Pycroft told Watson that he was not needed from his stockbroking house. He was then offered a job from other stockbrokers, Mawson and Williams and also offered a job from a man named Arthur Pinner. So, Pycroft went to Birminghan with Holmes and Watson to meet Pinner's brother who is also one of the company's founders. There, Holmes and Watson were disguised as job-seekers. They later find out that the only reason Pycroft was wanted was for his signature that a man could commit identity theft and accept a job. Also, upon looking in the newspaper, they learned that Mawson and Williams have been robbed and the criminal had been captured. A large amount of money was taken but recovered by the police by a man in the name of Pycroft and Pinner. After that the story ends and Holmes says that "Human nature is a strange mixture".