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 "good-night" to Wing at half-past nine. She had gone to the library for that purpose, as was her custom evenings when he did not sit with her in her own sitting room till her early bedtime.

"Was it his custom to spend the evening in your sitting room or the library?" the coroner asked.

"Two or three evenings a week he spent in my sitting room. The other evenings in the library, when he was at home."

"Was he away much, evenings?"

"Only when he was at court in Augusta or Portland. When he had cases at Norridgewock he always drove home at night."

"At what time did you have supper?"

"At six."

"On the night of the murder?"

The witness nodded, too much affected to speak her answer.

"Who was present at supper?"

"Theodore and myself."

"Mary Mullin and Oldbeg did not eat with you?"

This was a sore spot in Millbank's estimate of the widow Parlin. The town still held it a Christian