The lawyer was past his prime, balding, with a bit of a paunch. A respected member of the local bar (not that one, the legal one), he was selected by the long time Mayor to be City Attorney. Good naturedly, he labored faithfully on the humdrum, even dull, details of municipal governance, raised two bright and talented children and penned an occasional column for the local papers. To a casual observer he’s just an average small-town attorney; or is he?…..