Continued from Sequence FAs Beck walks out of the door.  Mrs. Gordon appears in the doorway.  Beck passes her in the hallway.

Mrs. Gordon tells Houdini that she too has suffered a great loss and with the help of some mediums has seen and spoken with her daughter.

She invites Houdini on Tuesday night to let these men help him.

After two sessions, Houdini tells Bess he has seen and heard some amazing things and for the first time feels this has helped him; he has been given a certain faith and a certain belief.

Bess tells hims that its the other way around, he has helped them with money.

Houdini tells Bess that he has reason to believe that eventually they will be able to do what he hopes they can do.

At the third session, Professor Harvey tells Houdini that he believes tonight will the night we cross the border.

The room is black. The organ is playing very very softly.  Harvey’s foot with the ghost-like face painted on the sole, is moving around the room.

Then suddenly, a very hollow voice is heard, as if from the distance. “Tonight there is someone who want’s to talk with Houdini

A phonograph is being played through a big horn.  The figure of an attendant stands near the phonograph.  The hollow voice is coming from the record on the phonograph.

Then suddenly Harvey brings his foot down and the head apparently disappears into thin air.

Suddenly four or five heads with long, gossamer and phosphoric tails appear and start floating up into the air.

Harvey asks if Houdini will be able to hear the message now and the Hollow Voice replies, Yes, Yes

Then suddenly from apparently right out of the wall appears the spirit of Houdini’s mother (This is of course, Mrs. Gordon dressed in a ectoplasm costume). She shines luminously in the dark and begins to speak, Erich, Erich, my son

Suddenly one of the heads that floated up, starts going down and hits Houdini’s shoulder.  There is a little hissing sound.

Houdini looks up and grabs the tail of a balloon and pulls it to him.

The spirit of Houdini’s mother (Mrs. Gordon) tells Houdini that she is happy and his son is happy.

Suddenly, Houdini takes the balloon and forces his hand into it and it explodes with a loud pop.  He gets out of his chair.

There is the sound of a little scuffle and then suddenly the lights go up and Houdini is standing at the switch.

Houdini then dashes over and rips the gown from Mrs. Gordon.

He turns over the table, rips down the drapes exposing wires, tears open the closet and exposes the phonograph, and smashes the records.

Harvey tells Houdini that will be enough.

Houdini tells him he hasn’t even begun, that he will put all of them out of business.

Houdini knocks Harvey to the floor, takes another chair and crashes it through the front window and then walks out of the room.

Next, Houdini is on the phone with Beck telling him he is ready to go back to work, and to arrange anything, to make it the biggest stunt he has ever tried.  He also tells Beck that he has another angle that will pack them in, he is going to crusade against fakirs who claim they’re spiritualists.

Beck asks Houdini what has spiritualism got to do with your set?

Houdini tells him it’s got a lot to do from now on, that he has been bilked, cheated, fooled, like millions of others and he is going to tell the world that here is no hereafter, there is no God, there is nothing.

With that he hangs up and tells Bess to think that he fell for it, to think that he believed even for one minute.

Bess tells Houdini that those men were fakirs, but that doesn’t mean that

And before Bess could finish her sentence, Houdini tells her it means that they’re all fakirs and he is not going to let others be fooled like he was anymore.

He is going to tell the world.

To be continued…Sequence H