66 she disappeared aion was broken.”
vaed to a gap in the row of frames. blomkvist felt the hairs rise on the back of his he wall was filled with pressed flowers.
“1967, a year after she disappeared, i received this flower on my birthday. it’s a violet.”
“how did the flower e to you?”
“ed in what they call gift paper and posted in a padded eo. urn address. no message.”
“you mean that…” blomkvist made a sweepiure.
“prey birthday every damn year. do you know how that feels? it’s directed at me, precisely as if the murderer wants to torture me. i’ve worried myself sick over whether harriet might have been taken away beeo at me. it was she and i had a special relationship and that i thought of her as my own daughter.”
“so what is it you wao do?” blomkvist said.
wheurhe corolla te uoy, she made sure to go to the toilet upstairs in the office. she used her card key in the door and took the lift straight up to the third floor to avoid going in through the maihe sed floor, where the duty officer worked. she used the toilet and got a the espresso mae that armansky had bought when at long last he reised that salander would never make coffee just because it ected of her. theo her offig her leather jacket over the back of her chair.
the office was a 61/2-by-10-foot glass cubicle. there was a desk with an old model dell desktop pc, a telephone, one office chair, a metal er basket, and a bookshelf. the bookshelf ed a of dired three blahe two desk drawers housed some ballpoints, paper d a notebook. on the window sill stood a potted plant ithered leaves. salafully at the plant, as if it were the first time she had seen it, theed it firmly ie paper basket.
she seldom had anything to do in her offid visited it han half a dozen times a year, mainly wheo sit by herself a just bef it in. armansky had i she have her own space. his reasoning was that she would then feel like part of the pany although she worked as a freelaed that armahis way he would have a ce to keep an eye on her and meddle in her affairs. at first she had been giveher down the corridor, ihat she ected to share with a colleague. but since she was here armansky fio the cubbyhole at the end of the corridor.
salaook out the cuff. she looked at it, meditatively biting her lower lip.
it ast 11:00 and she was alohe floor. she suddeingly bored.
after a while she got up ahe end of the hall ahe door to armansky’s office. locked. she looked around. the y up in the corridor around midnight on december 26 were almost . she opeh a pirate pany’s card key, which she had takerouble to make several years before.
armansky’s office a front of his desk were guest d a ce table with rht people was in the er. it eeat. she had not snooped in his office for quite some time, but now that she was here…she spe his desk t herself up t the search for a suspected mole in the pany, which ues had been planted under a firm where a theft riing, and what measures had been taken io protet who was afraid her child was in danger of being kidhe father.
at last she put the papers back precisely the way they were, losky’s door, and walked home. she felt satisfied with her day.
“i don’t kher we’ll fih, but i refuse to go to my grave without giviry,” the old man said. “i simply want to ission you th all the evideime.”
“this is crazy,” blomkvist said.
“why is it crazy?”
“i’ve heard enough. henrik, i uand yrief, but i have to be hoh you. what y me to do is a waste of my time and your money. y me to jure up a solution to a mystery that the polid experieors with siderably greater resources have failed to solve all these years. y me to setting on for forty years after it was itted. how could i possibly do that?”
“we haven’t discussed your fee,” vanger said.
“that won’t be necessary.”
“i ’t force you, but listen to what i’m . f
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