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Thursday, December 26
For the first time since he began his monologue1, the old man had managed to take Blomkvist by surprise. He had to ask him to repeat it to be sure he had heard correctly. Nothing in the cuttings had hinted at a murder.
“It was September 24, 1966. Harriet was sixteen and had just begun her second year at prep school. It was a Saturday, and it turned into the worst day of my life. I’ve gone over the events so many times that I think I can account for what happened in every minute of that day—except the most important thing.”
He made a sweeping2 gesture. “Here in this house a great number of my family had gathered. It was the loathsome3 annual dinner. It was a tradition which my father’s father introduced and which generally turned into pretty detestable affairs. The tradition came to an end in the eighties, when Martin simply decreed that all discussions about the business would take place at regular board meetings and by voting. That’s the best decision he ever made.”
“You said that Harriet was murdered…”
“Wait. Let me tell you what happened. It was a Saturday, as I said. It was also the day of the party, with the Children’s Day parade that was arranged by the sports club in Hedestad. Harriet had gone into the town during the day and watched the parade with some of her schoolfriends. She came back here to Hedeby Island just after 2:00 in the afternoon. Dinner was supposed to begin at 5:00, and she was expected to take part along with the other young people in the family.”
Vanger got up and went over to the window. He motioned Blomkvist to join him, and pointed4.
“At 2:15, a few minutes after Harriet came home, a dramatic accident occurred out there on the bridge. A man called Gustav Aronsson, brother of a farmer at ?sterg?rden—a smallholding on Hedeby Island—turned on to the bridge and crashed head-on with an oil truck. Evidently both were going too fast and what should have been a minor6 collision proved a catastrophe7. The driver of the truck, presumably
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loathsome
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catastrophe
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shambles
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deliberately
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format
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ironic
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previously
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bedlam
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chronological
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feverishly
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commotion
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pastor
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microscopic
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scrap
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preposterous
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vestige
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immediate
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journalism
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knights
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| 骑士; (中古时代的)武士( knight的名词复数 ); 骑士; 爵士; (国际象棋中)马 | |
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straightforward
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labyrinth
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sarcastic
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persuasive
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mince
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lackeys
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puffed
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naive
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gullible
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corps
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castigated
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competence
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economist
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investigations
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