The Lure of Millions

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Von Muller, a member of the fashionable Jockey Club, loses all his fortune, and is indebted on I.O.U. to Lang in a large sum, which he is unable to pay. Going to his room he contemplates suicide when his eye is arrested by a letter, which he opens and finds to be an invitation to a masquerade ball from Franz Oberman, a millionaire, and fellow club member. Von Muller resolves to attend. He dons the costume of a beggar. The ball is at its last ebb when a messenger hands him a note for Lang, reminding him the obligation falls due at midnight. He goes to the conservatory, and is about to end it all, but is intercepted by the host. Oberman tells him he has everything that wealth can give, but he, too, is unhappy. Taking Von Muller to his library. Oberman draws up an assignment of his entire wealth on condition that if after he has gone out into the world a poor man and does not find happiness they shall die together.