Jacques Proudhon was an ambitious chef who posed as a French Count to obtain the hand of a rich girl whose father had designs to obtain his daughter a titled husband. Jacques carried the game through very well by the aid of a disguise and much effrontery, but he reckoned without his host. In his case his host was a fellow menial, a female servant with whom the chef had dallied, who at the psychological moment gave Jacques away. The disguise of the bogus Count was penetrated and justice was done.