have another drink?”
oer frode had goin vanger drove up and parked his car by the road in froage. he came over and said hello. mikael wished him a happy midsummer and asked if he’d like a drink.
“no, it’s better if i don’t. i’m just here to ge my d then i’m going to drive ba to speh eva.”
blomkvist waited.
“i’ve talked to cecilia. she’s a little traumatised just now—she and henrik have always been close. i hope yive her if she says anythi.”
“i’m very fond of cecilia.”
“i know that. but she be difficult. i just want you to know that she’s very must y on digging into our past.”
blomkvist sighed. everyoad seemed to know why vanger had hired him.
“what’s y?”
“this thing with harriet has been henrik’s obsession for decades. i don’t k was my sister, but somehow it feels all so far away. dirch says that you have a traly henrik break, and i’m afraid that i it would dood.”
“so you wainue?”
“have you made any progress?”
“i’m sorry, martin, but it would be a breach of that tract if i told you anything without henrik’s permission.”
“i uand.” suddenly he smiled. “henrik is a bit of a spiraatic. but above all, i don’t want you to get his hopes up unnecessarily.”
“i won’t do that.”
“good…by the way, to ge the subjeow have arasider as well. given that henrik is ill and the short term fulfil his obligations on the millennium board, it’s my responsibility to take his place.”
mikael waited.
“i suppose we should have a b to look at the situation.”
“that’s a good idea. but as far as i know, it’s beehe b woil august.”
“i know that, but maybe we should hold it earlier.”
blomkvist smiled politely.
“you’re really talking t perso i’m not on the board. i left in december. you should get in touch with erika berger. she knows that henrik has been taken ill.”
marti expected this response.
“yht, of course. i’ll talk to her.” he patted blomkvist on the shoodbye and was gone.
nothie had been said, but the threat hung in the air. marti millennium on the balaray. after a moment blomkvist poured himself another drink and picked up his val mcdermid.
the mottled browo say hello and rubbed on his leg. he lifted her up and scratd her ears.
“the tw a very b midsummer eve, aren’t we?” he said.
when it started to rai i to bed. the cat preferred to stay outdoors.
sala her kawasaki on midsummer eve ahe day giving it a good overhaul. a lightweight 125ot be the toughest bike in the world, but it was hers, and she dle it. she had restored it, o a time, and she had souped it up just a bit al limit.
ier o a ao ?ppelviken nursing home, where she spehe park with her mother. she felt a pang uilt. her mother seemed more remote than ever bef three hours they exly a few words, ahey did speak, her mother did o knoas talking to.
blomkvist wasted several days tryihe car lates. after a lot of trouble and finally by g a retired me hedestad, he came to the that the car was a flia, a model that he had never heard of before. theed a clerk at the motor vehicle department ahe possibility of getting a list of all the flias in 1966 that had a lice plate beginning ac3. he was eventually told that su archaeological ex in the records presumably could be dohat it would take time and it was beyond the bou could be sidered publiation.
not until several days after midsummer did blomkvist get into his borrowed volvo ah on the e4. he drove at a leisurely pace. just short of the h?rn?saopped to have coffee at the vesterlund pastry shop.
the op was ume?, where he pulled into an inn and had the daily special. he bought a road atlas and ued oe?, where he turowards norsj?. he arrived around 6:00 in the evening and took a room iel norsj?.
he began his search early the m. the norsj? try shop was elephohe polar hotel desk clerk, a girl iies, had he business.
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