t know what they were using the goods for. and lobaew how to land a tract; he was eaining and good-he perfeazi. gradually i bega he was also a man erately tryi.
“in the early hours of june 22 in 1941, lobao the door of my bedroom. my room was o his wife’s bedroom, and he sigo be quiet, get dressed, ah him. nstairs and sat in the smoking salon. lobach had been up all he radio on, ahat something serious had happeion barbarossa had begun. germany had i union on midsummer eve.” vaured iion. “lobach took out two glasses and penerous aquavit for each of us. he was obviously shaken. when i asked him what it all meah fht that it meant the end fermany and nazism. i only half believed him—hitler seemed uable, after all—but lobad i drank a toast to the fall of germaurention to practical matters.”
blomkvist o signal that he was still followiory.
“first, he had no possibility of g my father for instrus, but on his own initiative he had decided to y visit to germany and send me home. sed, he asked me to do something for him.”
vaed to a yellowed portrait of a dark-haired womaer view.
“lobach had been married for forty years, but i a wildly beautiful woman half his age, and he fell hopelessly ih her. she oor, simple seamstress. lobach courted her, and like so mahy men, he could afford to install her in a a t distan his office. she became his mistress. in 1921 she had a daughter, who was ed edith.”
“rian, p woman, ahat ’t have caused much of a s the forties,” blomkvist said.
“absht. if it hadn’t beehe ish, aly lobach was the father of a jew i of nazi germa they called a ‘traitor to his race.’”
“ah…that does ge the situation. ened?”
“edith’s mother had been pi 1939. she disappeared, and we ly guess what her fate n, of course, that she had a daughter who was in any transport list, and being sought by the departmeapo whose job it was to tra fugitive jews. in the summer of 1941, the week that i arrived in hamburg, edith’s mother was somehow lio lobad he was summoned for an interview. he aowledged the relationship and his paternity, but he stated that he had no idea where his daughter might be, a had any tact with her in ten years.”
“so where was the daughter?”
“i had seen her every day in the lobae. a sweet ay-year-old girl who ed my room and helped serve dinner. by 1937 the perse of the jews had been going on for several years, ah’s med lobach for help. and he did help—lobach loved his illegitimate child just as much as his legitimate . he hid her i unlikely place he k ht in front of everyone’s nose. he had arranged for terfeit dots, aakeheir housekeeper.”
“did his ho she was?”
“no, it seemed she had had worked for four years, but now lobach felt the ening. it was only a matter of time befestapo would e kno the door. the his daughter and io me as such. she was very shy and didn’t even dare look me in the eye. she must have been up half the night waiting to be called. lobach begged me to save her life.”
“how?”
“he had arrahing. i osed to be stayihree weeks aake the night train to and ue by ferry across the souively safe trip, even iwo days after our versatihter owhe vanger corporation was to leave hamburg headed for sweden. lobated to sehe freighter io leave germany without delay. the my travel plans had to be approved by the security service; it was a formality, but not a problem. but lobated me on board that freighter.”
“together with edith, i presume.”
“edith was smuggled on board, hiddehree hues g maery. my job rotect her if she should be discovered ere still ierritorial reveain of the ship from doing anything stupid. otherosed to wait until we were a good distana her out.”
“it s.”
“it sounded simple to me, but it turo a nightmare journ
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