Hughie Erskine is a very handsome young man who is very well-known, but he has a hard time keeping a job. Although he is good-looking, he is not very clever and doesn’t have any money of his own. He changes jobs more often than not before he finally decides to stop working and live off of money that is given to him by his aunt.

Hughie falls in love with Laura Merton, who is the daughter of a retired Colonel. He proposes to her, but the Colonel won’t allow them to get married until he has ten thousand pounds of his own.

Alan Trevor, who was a good friend of Hughie, was a very talented painter. Hughie visits him one day and watches him as he paints a model. After much questioning, Hughie is told that the model is a beggar-man and isn’t going to get paid much for his services. Hughie feels bad for the man, so he digs through his pockets and gives him a sovereign.

Later in the day, Hughie is told that the beggar-man was not in fact a beggar-man at all. He was actually a millionaire named Baron Hausberg, which upset Hughie immensely.

The next morning, Baron Hausberg’s messenger was sent to deliver Hughie a letter. Inside the letter was a check for ten thousand pounds, a wedding present from Baron Hausberg. At the wedding, Alan was the best man and Baron Hausberg also attended the wedding and gives a speech at the wedding breakfast. Alan’s speech closes the story with, “Millionaire models are rare enough, but model millionaires are rarer