take this turn.”
“why not? the job was to fier all.”
“but this is disgusting and inhuman. if there’s a dao your life or to fr?ken salander’s life, we are going to e talk to henrik.”
“no. absolutely not. i don’t want to risk his haviack.”
“he asks me all the time how things are going with you.”
“say hello from me, please, and tell him i’m moving forward.”
“what is hen?”
“i have a few questio i occurred just after henrik had his heart attad i was down in sto for the day. somebody went through my office. i had prihe bible verses, aographs fratan were on my desk. you knew and hei of it since he anised fet into the courier offiany other people knew?”
“well, i don’t know who marti ber and ew about it. they discussed y iures archive between themselves. alexa it too. and, by the way, gunnar and helena nilsson did too. they were up to say helled into the versation. and anita vanger.”
“anita? the one in london?”
“cecilia’s sister. she came back with ce henrik had his heart attack but stayed at a hotel; as far as i k been out to the island. like cecilia, she doesn’t waher. but she flew ba he of intensive care.”
“where’s cecilia living? i saw her this m as she drove acre, but her house is always dark.”
“she’s not capable of doing sug, is she?”
“no, i just woaying.”
“she’s stayiher, birger. it’s within walking dista henrik.”
“do you know where she is right now?”
“ visiti any rate.”
“thanks,” blomkvist said, getting up.
the vanger family was h arouad hospital. iier passed on his way to the lifts. blomkvist waited until he was go out to the re. ier at the e exactly the same spot where he had run into his previous visit. they said hello and shook hands.
“have you been up to see henrik?”
“no, i just happe dirch frode.”
martiired and hollow-eyed. it oikael that he had aged appreciably durihs si him.
“hs going with you, mikael?” he said.
“m with every day that passes. when heter i hope to be able to satisfy his curiosity.”
birger vanger’s was a white-brick terrace house a five-minute walk from the hospital. he had a view of the sea aad marina. no-one answered when bl the doorbell. he called ceber but got here either. he sat in the car for a while, drumming his fihe steering wheel. birger vahe wild the de in 1939 and so ten years old when rebecka jaurdered; twenty-seve disappeared.
ag ter a hardly ever saw each other. he had grown up with his family in uppsala and oo hedestad to work for the firm. he jumped ship after a couple of years aed himself to politics. but he had been in uppsala at the time lena andersson was murdered.
the ihe cat gave him an ominous feeling, as if he were about to run out of time.
otto falk was thirty-six whe vanished. he was wo, youhan he in a siderably worse mental state. blomkvist sought him out at the svala home, a yellow-brig a short distahe hede river at the other eown. blomkvist introduced himself to the reist ao be allowed to speak with pastor falk. he knew, he explaihe pastor suffered from alzheimer’s and enquired how lucid he was now. a hat pastor falk had first beehree years earlier and that alas the disease had taken an aggressive course. falk u he had a very feeble short-term memory, and did nnise all of his relatives. he was on the whole slipping into the shadoroo aacks if he was ted with questions he ot answer.
falk was sittihe garden with three other patients and a male nurse. blomkvist spent an h to engage him iion.
he remembered harriet vae well. his face lit up, and he described her as a g girl. but blomkvist was soohe pastotten that she had been missihirty-sevealked about her as if he had seely and asked blomkvist to say he
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