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THE MILLBANK CASE
CHAPTER I
A Statement of the Case
Theodore Wing had no known enemy in the
world. He was a man of forty; "well-to-do,"
as they say in New England; a lawyer by profession,
and already "mentioned" for a county judgeship.
He was unmarried, but there were those who had
hopes, and there was scarce a spinster in Millbank
who hadn't a kindly word and smile for him—at
times. He was not a church member, but it was
whispered that his clergyman was disposed to look
leniently on this shortcoming, for Wing was a regular
attendant at service and liberal with money for
church purposes, which, shrewd guessers said, some
of the church members were not.
Wing lived in the River Road, just at the top of Parlin's Hill. He was from "over East, some-
