Moren Masters serves his prison term and is released. He meets an old sea-faring acquaintance just returned from a voyage with a pocket full of money, and is taken by him to a low opium den run by a disreputable Chinaman. Here his evil genius appears to him and suggests that he should possess himself of his companion's earnings. Masters declares that he would sell his soul for wealth, and the evil spirit shows him an easy way. To accomplish his purpose he does not stop short of murder, and with the connivance of the Chinaman he disposes of the body and subsequently adds to his ill-gotten gains by gambling with the frequenters of the place, against whom he has the luck of the Devil. With this beginning he starts a systematic career of fraud and deception, and some time later we find him managing director of a swindling company, a member of as exclusive club, and to all appearances a respectable member of society. Here we see him despoiling the widow and the orphan, on terms of ...