led on an attic flat of 700 square feet right at the ean. the previous owner was in the middle of maki suddenly got a job at a dot-pany abroad, and blomkvist was able to buy it inexpensively.
he rejected the inal interid fihe work himself. he put moo fixihroom a area, but iting i floor and interior walls to make it into the plaartmehe floor-boards, whitewashed the rough walls, a patd two waterao en livihe bedroom area behind a bookshelf, and the dihe livihe small kitd a ter. the apartment had two dormer windows and a gable ith a view of the rooftamla stan, sto’s oldest sed the water of riddarfj?rden. he had a glimpse of water by the slussen lod a view of city hall. today he would o afford su apartment, and he badly wao hold on to it.
but that he might lose the apartment was he fact that professionally he had received a real sma the would take a loo repair the damage—if i could ever be repaired.
it was a matter of trust. for the foreseeable future, editors would hesitate to publish a story under his byliill had plenty of friends in the business who t that he had fallen victim to bad luusual ces, but he was never again goio make the slightest mistake.
what hurt most was the humiliation. he had held all the trumps a to a semi-gangster in an armani suit. a despiarket speculator. a yuppie with a celebrity lawyer who sneered his way through the whole trial.
how in god’s hings g?
the wer?m affair had started out with suise i of a thirty-seven-foot m?lar-30 on midsummer eve a year and a half earlier. it began by ce, all beer journalist colleague, nor fluy ted to impress his new girlfriend. he had rashly hired a scampi for a few days of romantig io. the girlfriend, just arrived from hallstahammar to study in sto, had agreed to the outiia oer aer’s boyfriend e too. rio from hallstahammar had any sailing experienfortunately blomkvist’s old colleague had more enthusiasm thahree days before they set off he had desperation and persuaded him to e as a fifth crew member, oion.
blomkvist had not thought much of the proposal, but he d when promised a few days of relaxation in the archipelago with good food a pany. these promises aught, aioo more of a disaster than he could have imagihey had sailed the beautiful but i bulland? up through furusund strait at barely 9 knots, but the new girlfriend was instantly seasick. her sister started arguing with her boyfriend, ahem showed the slightest i ihe least little thing about sailing. it quickly became clear that blomkvist ected to take charge of the boat while the ave him well-i basiingless advice. after the first night in a bay on ?ngs? he was ready to dock the boat at furusund ahe bus home. only their desperate appeals persuaded him to stay.
at day, early enough that there were still a few spaces available, they tied up at the visitors’ wharf ouresque island of arholma. they had throwogether and had just finished when blomkvist noticed a yelllass m-30 gliding into the bay using only its mai made a graceful tack while the helmsman looked for a spot at the wharf. blomkvist too sed the spad and sa between their sd an h-boat oarboard side was the only slot left. the narrow m-30 would just fit. he stood up iern ahe man in the m-30 raised a hand in thanks aowards the wharf. a lone sailor who was not going t up the engine, blomkvist noticed. he heard the rattle of the an aer the main , while the skipper moved like a scalded cat to guide the rudder straight for the slot aime ready the lihe bow.
blomkvist climbed up a a haer. the new arrival made o course aly up to the stern of the scampi, by now moving very slowly. it was oossed the paio blomkvist that they reised each other and sm
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