ened by a man on his way out. they almost collided. the mao be in a hurry.
“yes? i help you?”
“i’m here ter,” blomkvist said.
the maened. he smiled and stuck out his hand. “you must be mikael blomkvist, the one who’s going to help henrik with the family icle, right?”
they shook hands. vanger had apparently begun spreading blomkvist’s ahe result, no doubt, of too many years of ing in offid s—but blomkvist ohe likehe similarity between his fad harriet vanger’s.
“i’m martihe man said. “wele to hedestad.”
“thank you.”
“i saw you on tv a while ago.”
“everybody seems to have seev.”
“wer?m is…not very popular in this house.”
“hehat. i’m waitihe rest of the story.”
“he told me a few days ago that he’d hired yer laughed. “he said it robably because of wehat you took the job up here.”
blomkvist hesitated before deg to tell the truth. “that orta to be hoo get away from sto, aad cropped up at the right momehink so. i ’t pretend that the court ever happened. and anyway, i’m goio prison.”
martin vanger nodded, suddenly serious. “ you appeal?”
“it won’t do any good.”
vanger gla his watch.
“i have to be in sto tonight, so i must hurry away. i’ll be ba a few days. e over and have dinner. i’d really like to hear what actually went that trial. henrik is upstairs. ght in.”
vating on a sofa in his office where he had the hedestad cens industri, svenska dagbladet, and both national evehe coffee table.
“i ran into martin outside.”
“rushing off to save the empire,” vanger said. “coffee?”
“yes, please.” blomkvist sat down, w why vanger looked so amused.
“you’re mehe paper.”
vanger shoved ae of the evening papers, open at a page with the headli circuit.” the article was written by a nist reviously worked for monopoly financial magazine, making a name for himself as one who cheerfully ridiculed everyo passio any issue or who stueinists, antirad eivists could all re reg their share. the writer was not known for espousing a siion of his own. now, several weeks after the trial ir?m affair, he was bringing his fire to bear on mikael blomkvist, whom he described as a plete idier ortrayed as a media bimbo:
a rum that millennium is e of collapse ihe fact that the editor in chief is a feminist who wears mini-skirts and pouts her lips on tv. for several years the magazine has survived ohat has been successfully marketed by the edit reporters who uigative journalism ahe sdrels of the business world. this advertising trick may work with young anarchists who wa such a message, but it doesn’t wash i court. as kalle blomkvist retly found out.
blomkvist switobile ao see if he had any berger. there were no messages. va saying anything. blomkvist realised that the old man was allowing him to break the silence.
“he’s a moron,” blomkvist said.
vanger laughed, but he said: “that may be. but he’s not the one who was sehe court.”
“that’s true. and he never will be. he never says anything inal; he always just jumps on the bandwagon and casts the fihe most damaging terms he get away with.”
“i’ve had mahe years. if there’s ohi’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. oher ha anyone who has i away with it. bide your time and strike ba you’re in a positith—even if you o strike back.”
“thank you for your wisdom, henrik. now i’d like you to tell me about your family.” he set the tape recorder betweehe table ahe record button.
“what do you want to know?”
“i’ve read through the first bi the disappearahe searches, but there are so maio i need your help identifying them all.”
for es salaood iy hall with her eyes fixed on the brass plaque that said “advokat n. e. bjurman” bef the bell. the lo the entry door clicked.
it was tuesday. it was their seeeting, and she had a bad feeling about it.<
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