A Deal in Real Estate (1914) watch online HD

Deacon Ezra Gregston has long coveted the property known as "Hillcrest," the old homestead of the wealthy Toombs family. For years the mansion has remained unoccupied. The deacon believed the property a good buy at $50,000 and makes an offer of $30,000. Toombs eagerly accepts the offer, so much so in fact as to raise, in the deacon's mind, the suspicion that Toombs is hard pressed for money. In his library the deacon schemes to bring about a better deal, and finally conceives the idea of installing a "ghost" in the mansion to give the place the reputation of being "haunted." About this time Riley Leigh, the newly installed city editor of the "Tribune," receives a warning from his publisher that the next libel suit brought against the paper will result in his dismissal. Leigh, who has been courting Ruth Gregston assiduously, clandestinely meets the girl in her father's garden and they are discovered by the deacon. He drives Leigh from the premises. A week later Oaklawn is greatly ...