Slave of Truth

Alceste is too straight-laced for his own good. His principles are too high and cause too much havoc in his life. His friend warns him that he should not be quite so bluntly truthful about everything; but to no avail. He antagonizes another fellow by telling him the truth about his verse, and this is doubly bad for the antagonist is infatuated with the same coquette as Alceste. In a showdown again bluntly arranged by Alceste both these men discover the true, i.e., perfidious, nature of the coquette. Now, however, the damage is done, and it is too late for Alceste to turn to the girl who had been waiting for him all along, the nice girl who has fallen in love at last with Alceste's friend.