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B and d her husband husban y r who ho o was 1 lost ost wit with h VV oVY V Elsie EI ie Mackay in attempting at attempting at at- J I tempting a trans transAtlantic trans Atlan Atlan r Y r t tic fl flight i g ht The i insert n sert in inthe d s 3 rhe r the he widows widow's irl own writing writing writ writ- lq Y ing is her answer to the r ugly rumor that Hinchliffe p and nd Miss l Mackay are alive and A coset this chose s. s spectacular lar method of f 1 1 v running together r away r r r j. j S E. E V since the HO Honorable lOr ble Elsie l e d J-J J famed London society beauty beauty arid m d d daring ringa adventuress disappeared at sea more t j i ithan than six months ago en route rout to America r a as the passenger of of Roland Hinchliffe 7 English war ace and intrepid overseas f flier a a veil of mystery has been spread over th the affair throughout through ut the British Empire tl the rumor 1 rumor mor persisting that Lord f r daughter and Hinchliffe did not fall to toa a lonely lonel l j de death in the Atlantic Ocean but hied themselves away and are alive today living together in self appointed exile Here Hete for the first time is is the story of fi t the nys mystery flight as s told by the widow of r Hinchliffe long suffering in silence silences reveal reveal- revealing A r 1 ing lg in in inthe th the e following interview the t inside Ji story of the flight fight her own friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship W with wilh th Miss fiss Mackay and Why wh she believes she b believes they are dead rather th than n tn in i hiding London LONG as I 1 am alive I will fight So P- P by every means at hand and with Witt all my strength to kill the rumor that thai husband husband Roland Hinchliffe did not die die in a a gallant a attempt to fly the Atlantic but fled with the Hon Elsie Ma Mackay kay and nd is alive today and in hiding I Emilie the pretty widow girl-widow of pf the flying ace ace spoke with passion and In Interrupting the special interview she was wa giving rose rose and seized a pen and paper with feeling dec declared declared de de- de- de a. a and her voice vibrant c ared The American people shall know tha that that-I I Iam am am telling the truth truth they they shall see it at written itten by my own hand and proceeded proc ded to pen the following document I know that there has been a rumour to the the effect that my husband and and rather better friends Miss Mackay were than a a married man and an unattached woman should be This definitely is not the truth 1 I Iwas was present at most of their interviews interviews inter interviews inter inter- views and I know that their interest inter st was waa not in one another as human i beings but as pilots pilots- skilled pilots skilled fliers about to negotiate the most daring flight a flight worthy of peoples people's awed wonder not a subject and respect t and certainly rise to unwarranted unwarranted unwarranted unwar unwar- th that t should have given ranted ic and T I am here given The The facts are as cost to m mown my myown myown speaking ki g out fully at gre great t feelings to do what I consider my own the names both of f a hero full duty to t my city husband husband and and heroine a as I 1 still regard and always must regard my husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bal bands band's ds d's companion on that fatal flight EMILIE HINCHLIFFE dashing and rather Because B cause Elsie was spectacular in the way she did things attractive to men and she was because unconventional in her dealings England conclusion that there must rushed to the undercurrent of sex in her dis- dis be an a appearance in company with my husband If If anything could have added to the grief gri f of my widowhood it was that the tiniest t atom of glory should be stolen stoler from Rolands Roland's name more especially a as asI asI I am the one person who knows the inside story of the flight and who can realize how cruel how unjust Is such a aslander aslander aslander slander RS HINCHLIFFE had resumed her M MRS seat With an effort she regained her habitual calm and continued The train of events preceding the fatal flight began when a man named Wreford was introduced to my y husband and ask asked d him whether he would consider piloting Miss Mackay the heiress daughter o or Lord across the Atlantic Roland daring and nd brave beyond de description description de- de jumped lumped at th the chance But it was wa her idea not his Lord probably did not realize be no doubt that he that There can took the view that R Roland land had persuaded persuaded persuaded per per- his d daughter to r risk ik her life while actually it w was s the other way round slanders have believed the Or else he may that coiled themselves around his daught daughters daughter's rs r's name together w with th my husbands There Is no doubt of course that Elsie and her father had at times serious dif dif- dif dif- His daughter was too much like to eye with him in all aU him to see eye things Her marri marriage ge to Dennis Wyndham Wyndham Wyndham its strange sequel ham the actor despite of annulment had perhaps ps alienated the peer tall all events she he often opposed her father People declared her set fast and her enemies described her as jaded ever seeking seeking seek seek- ing jug a new sensation My own impression was that she was a a. a woman of unusual beautiful and forceful as worth brilliant she was fascinating But I must go back a little if I am to reveal the inner h history of the relationship relationship relationship relation relation- Hinchliffe with Miss ship of Captain Mackay destined to end with such awful suddenness so tragically Wreford acted as agent for Miss buss iI tI I P v N t gL It has been rumored that the Hon Elsie Mackay shown above in flying togs tOg did not perish but eloped with her herr pilot allowing the world to believe them lost Mackay It was arranged also that thai he w was s to fly as a passenger But Roland refused absolutely to fly with him Wreford Wreford Wre Wre- Wreford ford had hoped to make money out of the the enterprise ie and was infuriated Out of re revenge revenge revenge re- re he let it be known to a London paper that the flight was to take place the news was cabled to Lord who was in Egypt and word came from him that he forbade relatives or friends tc to help Elsie with a single penny I am forced to tell this incident both to explain explain ex explain ex- ex plain why Roland and his copilot kept their plans hidden from the world and tc to tomake make clear my own little drama which followed the supreme tragedy of my husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's death I sympathize with Lord d desire desire de de- sire to prevent Elsie from attempting the most dangerous venture known to fliers Had I not sworn an unbreakable oath that I would never let my love for Roland influence his career I would have gone down off on my knees to him to give up the idea But knowing Elsie ElsIeI J 1 realized that such opposition as her father offered was predestined tined to be useless Nevertheless all our plans were upset The blaze of publicity given to the affair imme immediately started tongues wagging andin and andin andin in less le s than a day it was all over London London London Lon Lon- don that Elsie and my husband were having an affaire People did not realize that Roland and andI I were terribly in love that I was present nearly always when he met Miss Mackay Roland and andI I were as one In our liking for her our respect for her intelligence our confidence in her courage and re re- re I could not have imagined a more suitable companion lor tor him in his flight and in my Y eyes she will always remain a glorious figure of womanhood Her feeling for Ro Roland and was deep and sincere sincere she she admired him for his qualities qualities qualities ties and she was interested in him as 4 f one of the greatest fliers that has ever lived But to talk of love of sex attraction attraction attraction tion of a flirtation and an elopement is folly I was too close to Roland not to know his every ev ry the meaning meaning mean mean- ing of every shade in his voice He was not in love with Elsie Elsie- J HE THE HE last week during which the tho three of us were together most of or orthe the time was was alas the most trying week ormy of or my married life for I felt a sense of impending impending impending im im- pending doom Lord ban on his his' daughters daughter's flight made It impossible for her to appeal to anybody for funds fund The premium for insuring my husband came to somewhere around and she did not have the ready cash She Shedid Shedid Shedid did not realize that the insurance ce people people people peo peo- were afraid to give her credit on account of her fathers father's opposition She wrote and assured assur d them that they could depend upon the money They replied th that t they hey could not take the risk risk and and their letter if my reckoning is correct arrived just a few hours too late for her herto herto herto to receive it I am thankful for her sake that she never knew the terrible dilemma in which I found myself through this She would have been grieved beyond measure for however light hearted her mode of life may have been she was a kind woman On the Sunday night I was compelled to leave Grantham where I had Intended to staff stai with Roland and Elsie until they took off because my baby was ill 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I promised promised promised prom prom- to return if possible on the Tuesday I shall never forget that la ladt kiss that Roland gave me the pressure of his hand r. r 1 d. d 1 Lord father of Elsie Elst Mackay who was in Egypt Eg pt when she made her preparations for crossing the Atlantic Wh When n word ord first reached ed Lord he forbid his daughter to go but she completed her arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar 1 i and hopped off before her father could i could 10 M prevent could it X f S a back Emilie E nilie on mine as he said Hurry back or you'll be too late We c cant can't nt lose at an hour of fine weather Even then I r was assailed by a terrible fear that I was saying my last good good-b to my husband When Tuesday came my baby was wa still too ill for me to leave and I had tc to disappoint Roland That Tha night or or rather the next morning the telephone b bel rang breaking the silence of our our little country home and I heard Roland's Rolands voice voir-e. They were going going at once I I was I-was was to be a a good girl and not noi worry I 1 was to sail on Saturday Sa Saturday Satur Satur- ur- ur day to join loin him in New York Mrs Hinchliffe stirred d. d restlessly as she described this final phone call but bui bu continued con con- continued A A funeral dirge was echoing in mj ml ears My husbands husband's voice had sounded like a knell to me I I. felt disaster coming tome to me out of the air into which he was wa to to soar was soar was so soaring then I visualized the scene I could almost hear the deep- deep toned buzz of the engines see the propellers propellers propellers pro pro- turn picture my husbands husband's face as he sprang into the machine hear Miss Min Mackay's gay tones as she assured him that she was was re ready dy I found that when I had hung up the receiver I couldn't walk I was shaking all over as though I had an ague I knew that bed ed was impossible Rolands Roland's cigar cigarettes were on a little table near me I tried to light one My hand shook hand shook so that I singed my hair and ang as I dropped the match hurriedly it fell on my lap and burned a great hole in my frock be before before before be- be fore I could put it out I had a lump In 1 my throat that made breathing difficult I scolded myself furiously But the silence was unearthly sinister as I 1 sat th there re Inthe Inthe in inthe the loneliness of night and there was an atmosphere about the house as though a a. a dead body lay in a coffin in one of those quiet and horribly still rooms rooms I couldn't shake off my gloom The next night I realized that It was better to sit up than try to go to bed Sleep was out ou of the question I could think of nothing see nothing but visions of Roland Pictures floated through raymind my ray mind at an amazing speed The machine diving fire fire that most dreaded of all aU dangers that beset those who explore the clouds ice clouds ice forn forming ng on the wings No help anywhere whatever his trouble might be cut be-cut cut off from t ie e world he and Elsie Just two tiny human atoms opposed to the vast forces of the elements Thursday Thursday the the day they should have arrived I arrived I spent at the tel telephone phone The news agencies the American Embassy the news agencies the American Embassy again over and over again Thursday night had to be faced The papers were blazoning the fact that there had been no news f v I Ci T No news new But I had had news news My heart had already told me the truth I 1 realized suddenly that my heart was waa broken that broken that Roland was dead Again a dreadful pallor overspread the widows widow's pretty face She was gripping gripping gripping grip grip- ping the arms of her chair as she spoke Before I had h had d time to recover from the th awful shock and the e strain of the next few that days those days those terrible days have scarred my soul and that only grim determination to care for my children helped me to live through through-I I found myself surrounded by unforeseen difficulties The money that Elsie Mackay promised promised promised prom prom- was not forthcoming Roland had not been insured and starvation sta stayed ed my babies in the face I Iwas Iwas Iwas was now alone in the world with two little girls to look after and savings so tiny that it could be at most a matter of ol a few weeks before we were homeless and hungry In addition addItion as though fate had not made me suffer sufficiently in taking from fromme fromme me my hero the being that I regarded asa as asa asa a superman and loved better than life 1 I had to face that scornful half-scornful sympathy meted to to toa a woman whose husband has haa basely deserted her for a o light And all all the while I knew that my husband husband husband hus hus- band had died a R heros hero's death cc NATURALLY AT RALLY I appealed to Lord LN How could I dream that he would hate hat the name of Hinchliffe so bitterly that he would have nothing to do with me me me- 1 wrote again and again I was not asking for charity but only that Miss Miss Mackay's 1 millionaire father should keep her her given word I thought he owed that to her as much as to me And then I read that he had given t tote the e sum that would have been his daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's Inheritance to the nation nation and and still not one penny for my babies babI s sor or for me met mel Later as the world now knows Lord set aside for me the 50 50 which should have been mine according according according accord accord- ing to his daughters daughter's intentions and belief But as I want my children to be educated educated educated edu edu- as they would have been had bad their daddy lived I intend to work I am considered considered considered con con- something of a crack a auto to driver and there are many people I |