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fabric of Chicago‘s South Side politics, who, departing this life hurriedly and unexpectedly and a little mysteriously, and somewhat before the whole of his suddenly acquired wealth had had time to vanish, had left his widow comfortably established with money and some of that prestige which in Negro circles had been his. All this Helga had learned from the secretaries at the “Y.” And from numerous remarks dropped by Mrs. Hayes-Rore herself she was able to fill in the details more or less adequately.
On the train that carried them to New York, Helga had made short work of correcting and condensing the speeches, which Mrs. Hayes-Rore as a prominent “race” woman and an authority on the problem was to deliver before several meetings of the annual convention of the Negro Women‘s League of Clubs, convening the next week in New York. These speeches proved to be merely patchworks of others‘ speeches and opinions. Helga had heard
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