o. this girl standio you in this photograph is called harriet. that day she disappeared, and she was never seen ain. the general assumption is that she fell prey to a murderer. e mraphs?”
he took out his ibook and explaiahe puter booted up. thehe series of images showing how harriet’s facial expression ged.
“it ent through these old images that i found you, standing with a camera right behi, aaking a pi the dire of whatever it is she’s looking at, whatever caused her to rea that way. i know that this is a really long shot, but the reason i’ve been looking for you is to ask you if by aill have the pi that day.”
he ared fren to dismiss the idea ahat the photographs had long sinished. instead she looked at him with her clear blue eyes and said, as if it were the m ihat of course she still had her old honeymoon pictures.
she went to another room aer several mih a box in which she had stored a quantity of pi various albums. it took a while to find the honeymoon oakeographs iad. one was blurry ahe maiher showed her husbahe third showed the the parade.
blomkvist eagerly leaned forward. he could see a figure oher side of the street behind a . but the photograph told him absolutely nothing.
chapter 20
tuesday, july 1–wednesday, july 2
the first thing blomkvist did the m he returad was to go to frode’s house to ask about vanger’s . he learo his delight that the old man had improved quite a bit duri eak still, a now he could sit up in bed. his was narded as critical.
“thank god,” he said. “i realised that i actually like him.”
frode said: “i know that. and heoo. how was norrland?”
“successful yet unsatisfying. i’ll explaier. right ion.”
“go ahead.”
“what realistically en to your i in millennium if henrik dies?”
“nothing at all. martin la the board.”
“is there any risk, hypothetically speaking, that martin might s for millennium if i don’t put a stop to the iion of harriet’s disappearance?”
frode gave him a sharp look.
“ened?”
“nothing, actually.” mikael told him about the versation he had had with martin vanger on midsummer eve. “when i was iold me that martin had called her and said that he thought i was very mueeded back at the office.”
“i uahat cecilia was after him. but i don’t think that martin would put pressure o on his owoo savvy. and remember, i’m also on the board of the little subsidiary we formed whe into millennium.”
“but what if a ticklish situation came up—how would you a?”
“tracts exist to be honoured. i work for henrik. henrik and i have been friends for forty-five years, and we are ie agreement in such matters. if henrik should die it is in point of faartin—who would i henrik’s share in the subsidiary. we have a tra which we have uo baium for three years. should martin wish to start any mischief—whi’t believe he will—theically he could put the brakes on a small number of isers.”
“the lifeblood of milleence.”
“yes, but look at it this way—w about such trivia is a waste of time. martily fighting for his industrial survival and w fourteen hours a day. he doesime f else.”
“may i ask—i know it’s none of my busi is the general of the corporation?”
frode looked grave.
“roblems.”
“yes, even a on fier like myself see that. i mean, how serious is it?”
“off the record?”
“between us.”
“we’ve lost twe orders ironidustry i few weeks ao be eje the russia. iember we’re goio lay off 1,600 employees irollh?ttan. not much ive to people who’ve worked for the any years. each time we shut down a fafidehe pany is further undermined.”
“martin is under pressure.”
“he’s pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.”
blomkvist went back to his d called berger. she was not at the office, so he spoke to malm.
“here’s the deal: erika called when i was in norsj?.
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