p what i’m doing and go there.”
“i didn’t take you on as a serf. i want you to dh job on the assig i’ve given you, but, of course, you set your owhe work as you see fit. if you ake some time off, feel free to do it, but if i find out that you’re not doing the work, i’ll sider that a breatract.”
vaowards the bridge. he was a gaunt man, and blomkvist thought that he looked at that moment like a melancholy scarecrow.
“as far as millennium is ed, we ought to have a dis about what kind of crisis it’s iher i help in some way.”
“the best assistan ive me wer?m’s head o here and now.”
“oh no, i’m not thinking of doing that.” the old man gave blomkvist a hard look. “the only reason you took this job romised to expose wer?m. if i give you the information now, you could stop work on the job whenever you felt like it. i’ll give you the information a year from now.”
“henrik, five me f this, but i ’t be sure that a year from now you’ll be alive.”
vanger sighed and cast a thoughtful gaze over the fishing harbour.
“fair enough. i’ll talk to frode and see if we ething out. but as far as millennium is ed, i might be able to help in another way. as i u, the advertisers have begun to pull out.”
“the advertisers are the immediate problem, but the crisis goes deeper than that. it’s a matter of trust. it doesn’t matter how maisers we have if o buy the magazine.”
“i realise that. i’m still on the board of directors of quite a large corporatio in a passive role. lace advertisements somewhere. let’s discuss the matter at some stage. would you like to have dinner…”
“no. i waled, buy some grod take a look around. to to hedestad and shop for wihes.”
“good idea.”
“i’d like the files about harriet to be moved over to my place.”
“they o be handled…”
“with great derstand.”
blomkvist retur house. his teeth were g by the time he got indoors. the thermometer outside the window said 5°f, a remember ever feeling so cold as after that walk, which had lasted barely twenty minutes.
he spent alio what was to be his home for the ing year. he put his the wardrobe in the bedroom, his toiletries wehroom et. his sed suitcase was actually a trunk on wheels. from it he took books, d a cd player, notebooks, a sanyo tape reicrotek ser, a portable ier, a minolta digital d a her items he regarded as essential kit for a year in exile.
he arrahe books ahe bookshelf in the offigside two biaierial on har?m. the material was useless, but he ot let it go. somehow he had to turwo folders into building blocks for his g career.
finally he opened his sh and put his ibook ohe offi he stopped a him ish expressios of liviryside, forsooth. there was o plug in the broadband cable. he did not eveelephoo old dial-up modem.
blomkvist called the telia telephone pany from his mobile. after a slight hassle, he ma someoo fihat vanger had placed fuest house. he wao khe dle adsl and was told that it would be possible by way of a relay ihat it would take several days.
it was after 4:00 by the time blomkvist was do on a pair of thick sod the borrowed boots and pulled ora sweater. at the froopped short; he had been givehe house, and his big-stihe idea of leavi door unlocked. he went back to the kitd began opening drawers. finally he found a key hanging from a nail iry.
the temperature had dropped to -1°f. he walked briskly acre and up the hill past the chur store was tly located about three hundred yards away. he filled ter bags t with supplies and thehem home bef acre. this time he stopped at susanne’s bridge café. the womahe ter was iies. he asked whether she was susahen introduced himself by saying that he was undoubtedly going tular er. he was for the time being the only er, and susanne offered him coffee when he ordered sandwid bought a loaf of bread. he picked up a copy of the hedestad courier from the news
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