his lip and then said as casually as he could: “to be ho, i have might fill a chapter. it was a dramatit that has cast a shadow over your uhe very least.”
“but you’re o look into her disappearance?”
“what makes you think that?”
“well, the failsson lugged four massive boxes over here. that could be henrik’s private iiohe years. i looked i’s old room, where he, and it was gone.”
ceger was no fool.
“you’ll have to take the matter up with henrik, not with me,” blomkvist said. “but it won’t surprise you to know that henrik has talked a lot about the girl’s disappearahought it would be ih what had beeed.”
cecilia gave him another of her joyless smiles. “i woimes who’s crazier, my father or my u have listeo him o’s disappearahousand times.”
“what do you thio her?”
“is this aion?”
“h a laugh. “i’m just curious.”
“what i’m curious about is whether you’re a oo. whether you’ve swallowed henrik’s or whether in fact you’re the one who’s egging him on.”
“you think that henrik’s a nut case?”
“do me wrong. he’s o and most thoughtful people i know. i’m very fond of him. but on this particular topic, he’s obsessive.”
“but harriet really did disappear.”
“i’m just so damn sick of the whole story. it’s poisoned our lives for ded it doesn’t stop doing so.” she got up abruptly and put on her fur coat. “i have to go. you seem like a pleasant sort. martin thinks so too, but his judgement isn’t always reliable. you’re wele for y house whenever you like. i’m almost always home in the evening.”
“thank you,” blomkvist said. “you didhe question that wasn’t aion.”
she paused at the door a looking at him.
“i have hink it was a has such a simple explanation that it will astonish us if we ever find out.”
she turo smile at him—for the first time with warmth. then she was gone.
if it had been an agreeable first meeting with ceger, the same ot be said of his first eh isabella. harriet’s mother was exactly as henrik vanger had waro be a woman who reminded him vaguely of lauren bacall. she was thin, dressed in a bla lamb atg d she was leaning on a blae when blomkvist ran into her on his way to susanne’s. she looked like an ageirikiiful but as venomous as a snake. isabella vanger arently on her way h a walk. she the crossroad.
“hell man. e here.”
the anding tone was hard to mistake. blomkvist looked around and cluded that he was the one summoned. he did as instructed.
“i am isabella vahe woman said.
“hello. my name is mikael blomkvist.” he stuck out his hand, whiored.
“are you that person who’s been snooping around in our family affairs?”
“well, if you meahat he ura with his book about the vanger family, then yes.”
“that’s none of your business.”
“which? the fact that henrik vanger offered me a tract or the fact that i accepted?”
“you kly well what i mean. i don’t care for people poking around in my life.”
“i won’t poke around in your life. the rest you’ll have to discuss with henrik.”
isabella raised her d pressed the ha mikael’s chest. she did not use much force, but he took a step ba surprise.
“just you keep away from me,” she said, and turned on her heel aeadily towards her house. blomkvist went on standing where he was, looking like a man who has just met a real live ic-book chara he looked up he saw vahe window of his offi his hand he was holding a cup, which he raised in an ironic salute.
the that blomkvist did during that first month was a drive to a bay on lake siljan. he borrowed frode’s merd drh a snoeernooive superi morell. blomkvist had tried to form an impression of morell based on the way he came a the police report. what he found was a wiry old maly and spoke even more slowly.
blht with him a h teions, mai had cropped up while he was reading the poliorell aion put to him in a sasterly way. finally blomkvist put away his notes and explaihe questions were simply an exeeting. what he
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