all he civilly could to preveaking plag that salander had a cold, as sed with other work. the lawyer replied calmly that it made he matter was and he could easily le of days. at last there was no way t them together. now frode, who seemed to be iies, was looking at lisbeth salah evident fas. salander glowered ba expression that did not indiy warm feelings.
armansky sighed and looked ohe folder she had pla his desk labelled carl mikael blomkvist. the name was followed by a social seumber, ly prihe cover. he said the loud. herr frode s of his bewitched state ao armansky.
“so what e about mikael blomkvist?” he said.
“this is ms. salander, who prepared the report.” armaed a sed theh a smile that was io engender ce, but which seemed helplessly apologeti’t be fooled by her youth. she is our absolute best researcher.”
“i’m persuaded of that,” frode said in a dry to hihe opposite. “tell me what she found out.”
it was clear that frode had o act towards salaed t the question to armansky, as if she had he room. salander blew a big bubble with her gum. before armansky swer, she said, “could you ask the t whether he would prefer the lo version?”
there was a brief, embarrassed silence before frode finally turo salaried to repair the damage by assuming a friendly, avune.
“i would be grateful if the young lady would give me a verbal summary of the results.”
for a moment her expression risingly hostile that it sent a cold shiver down frode’s spi as quickly her expression softened and frode woher he had imagi look. wheo speak she sounded like a civil servant.
“allow me to say first that this was not a very plicated assig from the fact that the des of the task itself was somewhat vague. you wao khat could be dug up’ about him, but gave no indi of whether there were anything in particular y for. for this reason it’s something of a potpourri of his life. the report is 193 pages long, but 120 pages are copies of articles he wrote or press gs. blomkvist is a publi with few sed o hide.”
“but he does have some secrets?” frode said.
“everyos,” she replied rally. “it’s just a matter of finding out what they are.”
“let’s hear.”
“mikael blomkvist was born on january 18, 1960, which makes him forty-two years old. he was be but has here. his parents, kurt and anita blomkvist, were around thirty-five when the child was born. both have since died. his father was a mastaller and mood deal. his mother, as far as i could see, was hing but a housewife. the family moved house to stoikael started school. he has a sister three years younger named annika who is a lawyer. he also has some s, both male and female. were you planning to serve coffee?”
this last was directed at armansky, umped three the thermos he had ordered for the meetiioned for salao go on.
“so in 1966 the family lived in lilla essingen. blomkvist went to school first in blomma ao prep s kungsholmen. he had det graduating marks—there are the f his prep school days he studied musid played bass in a roamed bootstrap, ut out a si layed on the radio in the summer of 1979. after prep school he worked as a ticket colle the tunnelbana, saved some moravelled abroad. he was away for a year, mostly bumming around asia—india, thailand—and a swing down to australia. he began studying to be a journalist in sto eerrupted his studies after the first year to do his military service as a rifleman in kiruna in lapland. it was some sort of mait, ah good marks. after military servipleted his journalism degree and has worked in the field ever siailed do you wao be?”
“just tell what you think is important.”
“he es off a little like practi the three little pigs. so far he has bee journalist. iies he had a lot of temporary jobs, first in the provihen in sto. there’s a list. his breakthrough came with the story about the bear gang—the bank robbers he identified.”
“kalle blomkvist.”
“he hates the niame, whiderstandable. somebody’d get a fat l
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