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CHAPTER 16
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Sunday, June 1–Tuesday, June 10
After six months of fruitless cogitation1, the case of Harriet Vanger cracked open. In the first week of June, Blomkvist uncovered three totally new pieces of the puzzle. Two of them he found himself. The third he had help with.
After Berger’s visit in May, he had studied the album again, sitting for three hours, looking at one photograph after another, as he tried to rediscover what it was that he had reacted to. He failed again, so he put the album aside and went back to work on the family chronicle instead.
One day in June he was in Hedestad, thinking about something altogether different, when his bus turned on to J?rnv?gsgatan and it suddenly came to him what had been germinating2 in the back of his mind. The insight struck him like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. He felt so confused that he stayed on the bus all the way to the last stop by the railway station. There he took the first bus back to Hedeby to check whether he had remembered correctly.
It was the first photograph in the album, the last picture taken of Harriet Vanger on that fateful day on J?rnv?gsgatan in Hedestad, while she had been watching the Children’s Day parade.
The photograph was an odd one to have included in the album. It was put there because it was taken the same day, but it was the only one of the photographs not of the accident on the bridge. Each time Blomkvist and (he supposed) everyone else had looked at the album, it was the people and the details in the pictures of the bridge that had captured their attention. There was no drama in the picture of a crowd at the Children’s Day parade, several hours earlier.
Vanger must have looked at the photograph a thousand times, a sorrowful reminder4 that he would never see her again.
But that was not what Blomkvist had reacted to.
It was taken from across the street, probably from a first-floor window. The wide-angle lens had caught the front of one of the floats. On the flatbed were women wearing glittering bathing suits and harem trousers, throwing sweets to the crowd. Some of them were dancing. Three clowns were jumping about in front of the float.
Harriet was in the front row of the crowd standing5 on the pavement. Next to her were three girls, clearly her classmates, and around and behind them were at least a hundred other spectators.
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cogitation
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germinating
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| n.& adj.发芽(的)v.(使)发芽( germinate的现在分词 ) | |
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reminder
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subconsciously
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scantily
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pointed
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entirely
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binder
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plaque
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stationery
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salon
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landmarks
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investigation
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inspector
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disappearance
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formulated
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killer
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carnival
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transformation
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graphic
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journalism
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full-time
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retired
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intern
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folder
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attic
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confidential
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autobiography
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dubious
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binders
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overflow
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millennium
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blurred
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vendors
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portfolio
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germane
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| adj.关系密切的,恰当的 | |
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minimal
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diffuse
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lighter
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iota
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relentlessly
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wrestled
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affected
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precisely
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psychology
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| n.心理,心理学,心理状态 | |
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heartily
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spotted
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zoomed
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