t he doeshing in sweden, aacts.”
blomkvist put an arm around her and pulled her close.
“some day we’re going to nail herr wer?m so hard wall street is going to jump out of its socks. but today millennium has to get out of the spotlight.”
“i know all that, but i don’t like ing across as a fug bitd y forto a disgusting situatioend that there’s some sort of divisioween you and me.”
“ricky, as long as you and i trust each ot a ce. lay it by ear, and right now it’s time to retreat.”
she relutly admitted that there ressing logic to what he said.
chapter 4
mohursday, december 26
berger stayed over the weeke up only to go to the bathret somethihey had not ohey had laio foot for hours ahe future, weighing up the possibilities, and the odds. when dawn it was the day before christmas eve and she kissed him goodbye—uime—and drove home.
blomkvist spent monday washing dishes ahe apartment, then walking down to the offid g out his desk. he had i ties with the magazi he had eventually ced berger that he had to be separated from the magaziime. he would work from home.
the office was closed for the christmas holidays and all his colleagues were gone. he was weeding through trays of papers and pag books in s to take away wheeleph.
“i’m looking for mikael blomkvist,” said a hopeful but unfamiliar voi the line.
“speaking.”
“five me f you like this uo speak. my name is dirkvist he he time. “i’m a larese who would very much like to have a talk with you.”
“that’s fine, please ask your e.”
“i meao meet with you in person.”
“ok, make an appoi and send him up to the office. but you’d better hurry; i’m y desk right now.”
“my t would like you to visit him i’s only three hours by train.”
blomkvist pushed a filing tray aside. the media have the ability to attract the craziest people to perfectly absurd tips. every newsroom in the wets updates from ufolists, stologists, para of spiracy theorist.
blomkvist had oo a lecture by the writer karl alvar nilsson at the abf hall on the anniversary of the murder of prime minister olof palme. the lecture was serious, and in the audie bodstr?m and other friends of palme’s. but a surprisieur iors had turned up. ohem was a womaies wh the q and a had taken the proffered mie and then lowered her voice to a barely audible whisper. this aloeresti, and nobody rised when the woman began by g, “i know who murdered olof palme.” from the stage it was suggested somewhat ironically that if the woman had this informatio would be helpful if she shared it with the palme iion at once. she hurried to reply: “i ’t,” she said so softly it ossible to hear. “it’s too dangerous!”
blomkvist wohis frode was aruth-sayers who could reveal the setal hospital where s?po, the security poli experiments on thought trol.
“i don’t make house calls,” he said.
“i hope i ake aio is hty, and for him it would be too exhaustio sto. if you insist, we could ly arrahing, but to tell you the truth, it would be preferable if you would be so kind…”
“who is your t?”
“a person ect you have heard in your wer.”
blomkvist leaned ba surprise. henrik vanger—of course he had heard of him. an industrialist and former head of the vanger panies, oned in the fields of sawmills, mials, textiles. vanger had beehe really big fish in his day, utati an honourable, old-fashioriarch who would not bend in a strong wind. a e of swedish industry, oy-point stags of the old satts odo a the old electrolux. the bae of industry iate, et cetera.
but the vanger paill family-owned, had beehe past twenty-five years by reanisations, stock-market terest petition from asia, deg exports, and other akeher had ed the he backwater. t
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