They wanted a house. They called upon a real estate dealer. They discussed the price. That started the trouble. The real estate dealer and his wife wanted him to pay three thousand dollars.... See full summary
The Ghost of a Bargain (1912) Online
They wanted a house. They called upon a real estate dealer. They discussed the price. That started the trouble. The real estate dealer and his wife wanted him to pay three thousand dollars. He wanted to pay two thousand. The real estate dealer very politely refused to sell the house for the sum in question, and the woman very impolitely told him what she thought of a piker. He stubbornly insisted that he would buy that house for two thousand dollars. To all his repeated offers no reply was given, and when he called himself he was told the the house had been sold for three thousand dollars. Then he got an idea. He investigated, and learned that the house had been sold to an aged couple. So he invested in a long chain, stole into the house that night, and began the ghost act. He would blow a horn and rattle the chain and the aged couple would imagine the rest. One night of that was enough and the new purchasers rushed down to the real estate office the next morning, and flatly destroyed...
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