ars iee almost stopped, and it was owo years that she seemed to want to see him more often.
she had followed the trial in the firm belief that thi as her father said: he was i he ot prove it.
she told him about a sort-of boyfriend who was in another d she surprised him by saying that she had joined a churkvist refrained from ent.
he was iay for di he ected with his sister and her family out in the yuppie suburb of st?ket.
that m he had also had an invitatioe christmas eve with the be saltsj?baden. he said no, but thahat there was a limit to bedulgee sure that he had no ambition to find out what that limit might be.
instead he was kno the door where annika blomkvist, now annika gianh her italian-born husbawo . latoon of her husbaives, they were about to carve the christmas ham. during dinner he aions about the trial and received much well-meaning and quite useless advice.
the only one who had nothing to say about the verdict was his sister, although she was the ohe room. she had worked as clerk of a district d as an assistaor for several years before she and three colleagues opened a law firm of their own with offigsholmen. she specialised in family law, and without blomkvist haviock of its happening, his little sister began to appear in neresentihreatened anel diss on tv as a feminist as advocate.
as he ihe coffee, she put a hand on his shoulder and asked him how was he doiold her he felt as low as he had in life.
“get yourself a real lawyer ime,” she said.
“it probably wouldn’t have helped in this case. but we’ll talk it all the way through, sis, some other time whe is settled.”
she gave him a hug and kissed him on the cheek before they carried out the christmas d the coffee. then blomkvist excused himself ao use the telepho. he called the lawyer iad and could hear there too the buzz of voi the bad.
“merry christmas,” frode said. “dare i hope you have made up your mind?”
“i really don’t have ae plans and i am ore. i’ll e up the day after christmas if that suits you.”
“ext, ext. i am incredibly pleased. you will five me, i’ve graing and hardly hear myself think. i ree on a time? where i reach you?”
blretted his de before eve for home, but by then it ard to d of december 26 he was orain heading north. he had a driver’s lise, but he had he o own a car.
frht, it was not a loer uppsala came the string of small industrial towns along the norrland coast. hedestad was ohe smaller ole more than an h?vle.
on christmas night there had been a big snowstorm, but the skies had he air was ice- blomkvist alighted at hedestad. he realised at o he wasn’t wearing enough clothes for winter in norrland. frode k he looked like and kied him from the platform araight to the warmth of his mer the tre of hedestad, sn was in full swing, and frode wove his careful way through the narrh banks of sed a picturesque trast to sto. the tow like a, yet he was only a little more than three hels t in downtown sto. he stole a glahe lawyer: an angular face with sparse, bristly white hair and thick glasses perpressive nose.
“first time iad?” frode said.
blomkvist nodded.
“it’s an old industrial town opulation of only 24,000. but people like living here. herr vanger lives ihe se of the town.”
“do you live here too?”
“i do now. i was born in sk?ne down south, but i started wer right after i graduated in 1962. i’m a corporate lawyer, ahe years herr vanger and i beds. today i’m officially retired, and herr vanger is my o. he’s retired too, of d doesn’t need my services very often.”
“only to scrape up journalists with ruiions.”
“don’t sell yourself short. you’re ost har?m.”
blomkvist turo frode, uo read that reply.
“does this invitatiohing to do with wenne
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