and duri year he would take me out to his y times martin g. he fore and martin to do things with him. and he held my arms while martin…had his hen my father died, martiake over his role. he expee his lover a it erfeatural for me to submit to him. at that time i no longer had any choice. i was forartin said. i was rid of oor only to laother, ahing i ake sure there was never an o when i was aloh him…”
“henrik would have…”
“you still doand.”
she raised her voikvist saw that several of the meent were looking at him. she laiowards him.
“all the cards are oable. you’ll have to work out the rest.”
she stood up and got two more beers. when she came back, mikael said a sio her.
“gottfried.”
she nodded.
“on august 7, 1965, my father forced me to go out to his rik was away. my father was drinkio force himself o he ’t get it up ae. he was always…rough aoere alohis time he crossed the lied oarted telli he was going to do to me. that old me about the women he had killed. he was bragging about it. he quoted from the bible. this went on for an hour. i didand half of what he was saying, but i realised that he was totally, absolutely sick.”
she took a gulp of her beer.
“sometime around midnight he had a fit. he was totally insane. we were up i. he put a t-shirt around my ned pulled it as tight as he could. i blacked out. i dohe slightest doubt that he really was trying to kill me, aime that night he mao plete the rape.”
harriet looked at blomkvist. her eyes eo uand.
“but he was so drunk that somehow i ma aed dow and fled. i was naked and i ran without thinking, ahe jetty by the water. he came staggering after me.”
blomkvist sudde she would not tell him anything more.
“i was stroo shove an old drunk ier. i used an oar to hold him uil he wasn’t struggling a didn’t take long.”
wheopped, the silence was deafening.
“and whehere stood martierrified, but at the same time he was grinning. i don’t know how loside the , spying on us. from that moment i was at his mercy. he e, grabbed me by the hair, ao the —to gottfried’s bed. he tied me up and raped me while our father was still floatier. and i ’t even offer aance.”
blomkvist closed his eyes. he was terribly ashamed a he had left harriet va her voice had taken on a new force.
“from that day on, i was in his power. i did what he told me to do. i felt paralysed, ahing that saved my sanity was that isabella—or maybe it was unrik—decided that martin needed a ge of sery after his father’s tragic death, so she sent him to uppsala. of course this was because she k he was doi was her way of solving the problem. you bet that martin ointed. duri year he was home only for the christmas holiday. i mao keep away from him. i went with henrik on a trip to between christmas and new year’s. and during the summer holiday, anita was there. i fided in her, aayed with me the whole time, maki he didn’t e.”
“until you saw him atan.”
“i was told that he wouldo the family gathering, that he was staying in uppsala. but obviously he ged his mind, ahere he was oher side of the street, staring at me. he smiled at me. it felt like a hideous dream. i had murdered my father, ahat i would never be free of my brother. up until then, i had thought about killing myself. i stead to flee.” she gave blomkvist what was almost a look of relief. “it feels fantastic to tell the truth. so now you know.”
chapter 27
saturday, july 26–monday, july 28
blomkvist picked up sala door on lundagatan at 10:00 ahe orium. he stayed at her side during the y. f time they were the only m with the pastor, but when the funeral began armansky slipped in. he ly to blomkvist and stood behily putting a hand on her shoulder. she looking at him, as if she kneas stahen sh
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