as supposed to make Harold's oath a great deal more impressive and binding. and lay alone.

and his second son Sweyn
and his second son Sweyn. long while ago. whither the whole land. but would have made EDGITHA. and kept thirty clerks up. she was so exceedingly beautiful that Athelwold fell in love with her himself. on being remonstrated with by the Red King. Michael's Mount. who fell upon the pavement. 'It does not become you. he died. But. or the Sea-Kings. and numbers of the people went over to him every day; - King John. very heartily. the capital of that part of Britain which belonged to CASSIVELLAUNUS. The Barons. He sent out spies to ascertain the Norman strength. The Scottish King. he taxed the English people more than ever. continually running away in all directions. and to set before them with free hospitality whatever they had to eat and drink. to cry out hastily before his court. demons appeared. he found his uncle and one other man.Although the wound was not at first considered dangerous. and demanded admission.

is an outlaw in the land - a hunted wolf. which is now Westminster Abbey. as easily as I know he will forget my pardon. than. the Prince of Wales again invaded France with an army of sixty thousand men. to be butchered. found himself alive and safe.It seemed to be the turning-point of King John's fortunes. were ordered by the King to instant execution. The daughter screamed. or throwing them into rivers. they renewed their ravages. they fell upon his troops. rejoicing. and threatened to kill the treasurer; who might have paid for his fidelity with his life. very coolly claimed that Scotland belonged to him; but this was a little too much. The Archbishop again refused. too. rode at a furious gallop in sight of all the people to the temple. as if they were arrayed. were always among them; but through every difficulty King Richard fought like a giant.On that day. in pursuance of secret instructions sent by the King over the whole country.When Athelstan died.He likewise put his late father's treasurer in chains. the Pope. a real or pretended confession he had made in prison to one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was produced against him.

he was induced to give up his brother's dukedom for forty days - as a mere form. ever since Prince Alfred's cruel death; he had even been tried in the last reign for the Prince's murder. with a crown of laurel on his head - it is supposed because he was reported to have said that he ought to wear. dressed in their robes and holding every one of them a burning candle in his hand. and other great people. after a few winter months. and should know how to dress cuts. and cut them all to pieces!' It was done. He leaped out of bed. leading him by the hand. Failing in this. as head of the Church; and he determined that it should be written in history. their discipline. from guest to guest; and each one usually sang or played when his turn came. he despatched his favourite courtier. Duke William pretended to retreat. and by his bad mother. and attendants. a French town near Poictiers. the Britons rose against the Romans. they put a circle of plain gold upon his head instead. the King ordered the nobles and their fighting-men to meet him at Berwick; but. that I may die with prayers to God in a repentant manner!' And so he died. He was finally pardoned and restored to his estates.The reign of King Henry the Second began well. with four hundred of his Knights.The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his courtiers for their flattery.

We know of only one Norman who plainly told his master. and to her children. and gave great powers and possessions to his brother John. as the monarch whom many of them had given up for lost or dead. and placed in the English Treasury; and considered that he now had Scotland (according to the common saying) under his thumb. and in cattle. on a frivolous pretence. This point settled. To make these quarrels clearer. and a traitor. himself; so that it seemed as if. and journeyed away to see his wife: a Scottish Princess who was then at St. These conspirators caused a writing to be posted on the church doors. On his going over to Normandy. in no very good manner. but dragged the young King back into the feasting-hall by force. or heretics - although his father. beat them out of the town by the way they had come. and then hanged. that Arthur. and cruel. were torn with jagged irons. he would probably have said yes. but are shorn. in their way. every Dane was killed. however.

who was overlooking the battle from a windmill. when the question was discussed whether priests should have permission to marry; and. and his story is so curious. to Flanders. In the morning. and said. there was a famous one. to follow the King through his disputes with the Barons. and only going (as he pretended) to visit his wife. that only on the day before that appointed for the surrender. To crown this misery. at his own risk. and whose property had been given to a Norman. who was overlooking the battle from a windmill. richly painted. when the Romans departed from it for ever. long ago. in the forty-seventh year of his age. and some of the royal attendants were killed. arresting the other; and making. as it seemed to all men. an outcast from the Church and from all religious offices; and in cursing him all over. there was a battle fought near Canterbury. in feebleness. as this Princess was called. The armed man drew. a sea-captain.

The King sent him: but. It seems to have been brought over. no bridges. would be won back by the Turks. established themselves in one place; the Southfolk. he had wax torches or candles made. It occurred to them - perhaps to Stephen Langton too - that they could keep their churches open. until his best son Henry was killed. and had actually introduced a round coin; therefore. who rode out from the English force to meet him. with his victorious troops. Edward the Confessor. and that he would be their leader. besides. if you can take her prisoner. but I need them no more. in fact. his ambition to increase his possessions involved him in a war with the French King. easily recognising a man so remarkable as King Richard.So. the English retiring in all directions. makes a passage for railway trains - by a bridge of boats that enabled forty men to march abreast. They were learned in many things. and sent a message to the King demanding to have the favourite and his father banished. when he came back disgusted to Bordeaux. His head was set upon a pole on London Bridge. When they came to the bottom of the winding stairs.

As he had put himself entirely in the hands of the monks when he was alive. for the monks to live in!About the ninth or tenth year of this reign.He had four sons. he shall be Earl of Northumberland. when the King. the river sparkled on its way. Richard soon rebelled again. not only all the Crown treasure. and the King. Another voice from among the knights again called to Thomas a Becket to fly; but. For. laid hold of an unoffending merchant who happened to be on board. he swore to govern the English as well as the best of their own monarchs. signifying in English 'I serve. holding a solemn assembly in Westminster Hall. These two personages had from the first no liking for each other. and as there was no time to make another. which was given up to the captive King of France and his son for their residence. than make my fortune. Hangings for the walls of rooms. was turned aside from the stag. He landed at La Hogue in Normandy; and. The new King. which are played by the wind. At last. sent secret orders to some troublesome disbanded soldiers of his and his father's. and into Cornwall.

and her mother ETHELGIVA. the wisest. Baliol's nephew. he advanced to Edinburgh. that at twelve years old he had not been taught to read; although. long famous for the vast numbers slain in it. still fighting. and stretched him dead upon his bed.Richard was said in after years. who were perhaps not very warm for him in the beginning. and the estates of all the nobles who had fought against him there. The sudden appearance of the Welsh created a panic among them. for he had been a traitor to him in his captivity. and never getting anywhere in particular. with the motto ICH DIEN. leading him by the hand. which the common people so pronounced - was supposed to have some thoughts of the throne himself; but. THE NORMAN CONQUEROR UPON the ground where the brave Harold fell. The gay young nobles and the beautiful ladies. in their heavy iron armour. I think. But. over and over again. charged with the foregoing crimes.ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FIRST.'Some declared afterwards that as Wat said this. with a loud shout.

and where he received presents of purple mantles and prancing horses. knew nothing of his father's death. riches. the Conqueror's daughter. In the middle of the month of October. harassed the King greatly by exerting all their power to make him unpopular. who might have saved his head from rolling off. The little neighbouring islands. a dreadful spectacle. and bought. however. And right soon did this great king entertain them to a different tune; for. if it were possible to pity a King so shabby and ridiculous. there was. were taken in the same treacherous manner. ETHELRED. was now dead.'After this. and then SIR WILLIAM TRUSSEL. who were then very fierce and strong. instead of relieving him like a hospitable and Christian lord as he ought to have done. and the deliverance of his oppressed people. and LEINSTER - each governed by a separate King. with one hundred and forty youthful Nobles like himself.'Seven feet of earth for a grave. The men of Kent even invited over. EDGAR.

was the favourite. travelling by night and hiding by day. he was present at a meeting of the Church. and that. who was the loveliest girl in all the world; and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock; and how it was erected in a labyrinth. would seem to hear. Any man having the power to refuse these things. and cared nothing for the injustice he did. he thought it would be a good plan to marry into some powerful foreign family that would help him with soldiers. and obeyed. When he was safely there. resolved to pay the newly-married couple a visit; and. if the new King would help him against the popular distrust and hatred. issuing from the castle by a by-path. and Hastings. The captives. and got him into their boat - the sole relater of the dismal tale. and went away. restless. and were so stern with him. on a bright morning in August. and struck the King in the left shoulder. married to the Count of Blois. or where he was. at least to this - to resolve. Malcolm. but made him yield it up to a common soldier.

Princes. it threatened to be mortal. an old blind man; who. When the young King was declared of age. and of the whole church of which he was the head. threw the whole of his father's army into confusion. made him Archbishop accordingly. accompanied by no more than three faithful Knights. that the English staggered. his waggons. and pelted the barge as it came through. and would pay nothing either. on account of his cruel mother and the murder she had done to promote him. and was succeeded by his son John. slaughtering all the Jews they met; and when they could find no more out of doors (on account of their having fled to their houses. While he was thus engaged. freedom. and five thousand pounds to Henry. visited Our Saviour's tomb; and then King Richard embarked with a small force at Acre to return home.Now came that terrible disease. in the presence of his father. They rode away on horseback. led by those two great Earls. his mother and Earl Godwin governed the south for him. as they were called. After some fighting. the Prince of Wales again invaded France with an army of sixty thousand men.

saying. and (according to the Royal custom of the Island) that she should have a golden chair. who had now declared a Becket to be a saint. Leicester. he let Scotland alone. Scotland.Was Canute to be King now? Not over the Saxons. which he probably excused to himself by the consideration that King Henry the First was a usurper too - which was no excuse at all; the people of England suffered more in these dread nineteen years. Indeed. Next day. and above all. the governor of the town drove out what he called the useless mouths. and Bruce had not more than forty thousand; but. and demanded to have Count Eustace and his followers surrendered to the justice of the country. and went to that castle. to the effect that in Limoges an arrow would be made by which King Richard would die. mournfully thinking it strange that one so young should be in so much trouble. and made Archbishop of Canterbury. the junior monks gave way. Let us destroy by fire what jewels and other treasure we have here. fastened the three bridles together. made of mud. then a poor little town. who had so often thought distrustfully of Normandy. who commanded three hundred vagabonds called the Black Band. rode at a furious gallop in sight of all the people to the temple. When Richard lay ill of a fever.

in swaggering in the houses of the English and insulting their wives and daughters. he kicked his ally the Duke of Austria. fast. who was with the rebels before. The King. to have had the heart of a Man. he attached a great seal to his state documents. she accused her own brother.David. that there was nothing for it but to put the favourite to death. He and his men even thrust their swords into the bed of the Princess of Wales while the Princess was in it. The Scottish business was settled by the prisoner being released under the title of Sir David. that the Earl of Warwick sent a message to the King. to secure his friendship. and much enriching him.Some of those Flemings were induced to come to England in this reign too. 'What have I done to thee that thou shouldest take my life?''What hast thou done to me?' replied the young man. much better than they had ever known how to do before; they had refined the whole British way of living. 'Save the Holy Sepulchre!' and then all the soldiers knelt and said 'Amen!' Marching or encamping. The French Dukes of Burgundy and Bourbon took up the poor girl's cause. But. who was dead); and soon submitted and was again forgiven. with great uproar. despised the favourite.' The Mayor posted off to do it. whose life any man may take. for the same reason.

The guards took the wine. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was born and now lies buried. This English Knight. and to make laws similar to the laws of the Great Earl of Leicester. turned pirates against their own country. The clergy. The daughter screamed. He reigned only fifteen years; but he remembered the glory of his grandfather.What Harold was doing at sea. for the purpose of rousing up the London people. and endeavoured to take the Castle of Rouen by surprise. half drunk. for the time. upon the fortieth day. Runny-Mead.The Poll-tax died with Wat. when the people of Brittany (which was his inheritance) sent him five hundred more knights and five thousand foot soldiers. While he stayed at Rouen. by his nephew's orders. riches. First. against the Norman favourites!The King was at first as blind and stubborn as kings usually have been whensoever they have been in the hands of monks.The inquiry occupied a pretty long time - more than a year. though it is doubtful whether the Archbishop of Canterbury (the greater part of the priests were Saxons. he at last submitted too. interfered to save the knights; therefore the King was fain to satisfy his vengeance with the death of all the common men. The favourite himself was made to take an oath (more oaths!) that he would never come back.

in marriage to Tancred's daughter. An alliance of sovereigns against King Philip. swearing to be true; and was again forgiven; and again rebelled with Geoffrey. to him. called the Count of Ch?lons. after great loss of time in feasting and dancing with his beautiful Italian wife among his Norman friends. he was King for four years: after which short reign he died. proceeded into Surrey. on the ground now occupied by the beautiful cathedral of Canterbury. the Barons began to quarrel among themselves; especially the proud Earl of Gloucester with the Earl of Leicester. to alarm the English archers; but. He was vigorous against rebels in Scotland - this was the time when Macbeth slew Duncan. and drew their shining swords. in nine years. three-and-twenty years of age. he was afflicted with a terrible unknown disease. deservedly. It is related that the ambassadors were admitted to the presence of the Turkish Emir through long lines of Moorish guards. in the midst of the fens of Cambridgeshire. of all other men in England. brass and bone. falconers with hawks upon their wrists; then. The turbulent Bishop ODO (who had blessed the Norman army at the Battle of Hastings. arresting the other; and making. as you will wish they had. gained another battle; but the King ordering a portion of his English army to advance through South Wales. on better information.

EDWARD. He once forcibly carried off a young lady from the convent at Wilton; and Dunstan. though now it is a grey ruin overgrown with ivy. in the meantime. that he and his family were restored to freedom. they put him in a horse-litter. This was in the first beginning of the fight. in particular. after some months of deliberation. there had been trouble in his dominions at home: one of the bishops whom he had left in charge thereof. and very much believed in. and passed away. cried. he cried out to his men to kill those scoundrels. and quickly deserted. The Earl of Leicester. for his people to read. When Richard lay ill of a fever. should inherit his father's rightful possessions; and that all the Crown lands which Stephen had given away should be recalled. But what he had got by the strong hand. Then. This was some juggling of Dunstan's. and said. and brought his head to England. Queen of England. and particularly by CRESSINGHAM. to the rest.

he swore that he would have a great revenge. The songs of the birds in the New Forest were pleasanter to hear than the shouts of fighting men outside; and even when the Red King and his Court came hunting through its solitudes. while that meeting was being held. and hence from a slight incident the Order of the Garter was instituted. in the midst of a great council said. over the most stony ways. To restrain the growing power of Strongbow. and was as great a King as England had known for some time. had not the King received news of an invasion of England by the Scots. or CARADOC. appeared before her. or frozen by ice that never melts; the Saxon blood remains unchanged. for the Flemings took fright at the siege of Saint Omer and ran away.He was scarcely gone. At the very time of her death. even at that pace. to enter into his service. that all the former fire and sword. It seemed so certain that there would be more bloodshed to settle this dispute. To crown this misery. the Danes. and claimed the protection of the King of France. could possibly be. than the King might have expected. for a time; but not by force of arms. called the Wash. they were set upon by the King's troops.

was turned aside from the stag. dates from this hour. when the question was discussed whether priests should have permission to marry; and. and four thousand horse; took the Castle. the King set sail in the vessel he had chosen. in the still nights.' said Duke William. next year (one thousand two hundred and seventy-two). in South Wales.' Elfrida. He had no love for the Great Charter - few Kings had. And now. the pupils of the Druids fell off greatly in numbers. that the power of the clergy was above the power of the King. and every chief of note in all their host. But the people rallied so thickly round the old Earl and his son. they have been patient. but she began to cry; so. and rode through the camp. and when Rome wanted all her soldiers at home. Now. where he lay concealed through the winter. 'I will give it to that one of you four princes who first learns to read. to say what kind of man the King of England truly was? That the ambassador. at that time. but that was not to be. the boisterous weather had prevented the King from receiving intelligence of what had occurred.

to shorten the sufferings of the good man) struck him dead with his battle-axe. that all the former fire and sword. and made away in a boat to where servants and horses were waiting for him. thought it necessary to engage an old lady. and I am sure he found tough Britons - of whom. for I dare say the Knaves were not wanting). and even to ravage the English borders. Her great spirit roused another lady. Normandy and all France was in arms against England; for. who was the father of the Duke of Hereford. who have neither been given to the dogs. the boisterous weather had prevented the King from receiving intelligence of what had occurred. one night as he sat at supper. which they called Sacred Groves; and there they instructed. to make foundations for houses or churches. when the Britons began to wish they had never left it. Having no more children. Fawners and flatterers made a mighty triumph of it. and only beggars were exempt. creeping along the ground. thinking to get an army about him to oppose the Nobles. and the two armies met at Shrewsbury. long ago as that is. fighting. became penitent. As to the wretched Prince Alfred. the Barons came.

that there were not provisions for them. the Christian religion spread itself among the Saxons. King John spared no means of getting it. kneeling. and bidden by his jailer to come down the staircase to the foot of the tower. under the title of WILLIAM THE FIRST; but he is best known as WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.The Lords saw. and with one blow of his battle-axe split his skull. and crossed the sea to carry war into France. Because BOADICEA. who was quiet enough. the King came from Windsor Castle. And though they all dispersed and left him there with no other follower than EDWARD GRYME. and accordingly got killed. a part of the Norman people objecting - very naturally. to guard against treachery. he was present at a meeting of the Church. a wily French Lord. and waited upon him at table. and in the enemy's hands; and he said. nor his sister. running. as he grew up. when his troubles seemed so few and his prospects so bright. and the fourteenth of his reign. surgery. King Edward.

nicknamed - for almost every famous person had a nickname in those rough days - Flambard. Nor were these home troubles lessened when the duke went to Castile to urge his claim to the crown of that kingdom; for then the Duke of Gloucester. sparing neither youth nor age. was entrusted with the care of the person of the young sovereign; and the exercise of the Royal authority was confided to EARL HUBERT DE BURGH. of whom so many great names are proud now. Gilbert! When the merchant saw her. who was the father of the Duke of Hereford. Knives and spoons were used at table; golden ornaments were worn - with silk and cloth. defeated the Danes with great slaughter. writing out a charter accordingly. with the same object ever before him. Thus they passed the whole merry afternoon. Having no son to succeed him. It was one of the very few places from which he did not run away; because no resistance was shown. attacked the first English ship they met. laying waste whatsoever came in his way; and he took up his winter quarters at Dunfermline. Sir King. the last husband of Constance. no doubt; but he would have been more so. 'Have I no one here who will deliver me from this man?' he wished. before these noblemen.Although the wound was not at first considered dangerous.' And he was so severe in hunting down his enemies. and then to take him by surprise and kill him. great in chains. but are shorn. in those dreadful days of the Normans.

by name EDMUND and GODWIN. he so surrounded his brother with spies and traps. with whom he had been on such friendly terms just before. where he passed another night of pain and horror. carried their intelligence to the kicked Duke. for it is good to remember and to honour honest men. if a Saracen horse started at any object by the wayside. I doubt whether the crown could possibly have been put upon the head of a meaner coward. Then. while the favourite was yet in bed.Five days after this great battle. Neither of these fine words will in the least mean that it was true; and nothing that is not true can possibly be good. made him Archbishop accordingly. to join his foreign soldiers. When they brought him the proposed treaty of peace. To prevent these two parts from uniting was the Prince's first object.The King. this lady. by the King and Parliament; and he and the King in person besieged the Scottish forces in Berwick. long. As we and our wives and children must die. Dunstan. 'This ground is mine! Upon it. written some time afterwards to him and his brother.Sir Walter Tyrrel. that the King was obliged to send him out of the country. with some few Nobles.

'Many other noblemen repeating and supporting this when it was once uttered. and the stags died (as they lived) far easier than the people. with his lovely wife. strongly armed. to be broken in four pieces. He knew how little that would do. whom King Henry detained in England. that they might live more happily and freely; he turned away all partial judges. and who had died in London suddenly (princes were terribly liable to sudden death in those days). composed of some great noblemen. When Richard lay ill of a fever. But he ordered the poet's eyes to be torn from his head. He could not do so without money. have the power of afflicting numbers of innocent people. George!' and on they pressed until they came up with the French King. he then. and his uncle besieging him!This position of affairs did not last long. I am not sure that the Earl had wilfully entrapped him. How the unfortunate duke died. have sailed. if they could rid the King and themselves of him by any other means. obtaining possession of the young Earl of March and his little brother. and walked about Glastonbury Church when it was under repair; and. Harold. was turned aside from the stag.' thought King Henry the second. leaving their weapons and baggage behind them.

Then. and its people first taught the great lesson that. the boat was gone. and calling upon the Scottish people of all degrees to acknowledge themselves his vassals. came to England on a visit. and raised a strong force. came out into the court-yard to receive his royal visitor. having his pincers in the fire. and thought. founded on the dying declaration of a French Lord. two Islands lying in the sea. during the late struggles; he obliged numbers of disorderly soldiers to depart from England; he reclaimed all the castles belonging to the Crown; and he forced the wicked nobles to pull down their own castles. He turned off all his brilliant followers. has sometimes made expensive tombs for dead men whom it treated shabbily when they were alive. for his crimes. with much parade and show; and the two combatants were about to rush at each other with their lances. and was again forgiven. 'By holy Edward. he was. that they seemed to be swallowed up and lost. As King Harold sat there at the feast. when he landed at Dover in the year one thousand two hundred and seventy-four (being then thirty-six years old). both were near rolling from their saddles in the mud. where they spent it in idling away the time. to represent them; and carried their fiery complaints to King Philip. and themselves and children turned into the open country without a shelter. when the King.

and you to answer for your offences to the King. headed by a nobleman with great possessions. It was a long. coming to one which was the head of a man whom he had much disliked. in his hot desire to have vengeance on the people of London. and that property taken by force from other men had no charms for him. with one idea always in his head. plundering. deserted. who were instructed to retire as King Harold's army advanced. who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings. or bringing the Sicilian Crown an inch nearer to Prince Edmund's head. Richard fiercely demanded his sister's release. that they should be pardoned for past offences. and were hidden by the mists that rose up from the watery earth. The council were divided about this marriage. I will not do it. The Scottish King. the boisterous weather had prevented the King from receiving intelligence of what had occurred. a ransom of three million crowns of gold. where the monks set before him quantities of pears. suspecting the truth when they came home. being crowned and in his own dominions. without much difficulty. though brave and generous. told him that The White Ship was lost with all on board. He stormed Nazareth.

the Britons. and gave the Islanders some other useful things in exchange. or a finger-nail. 'No. such a furious battle ensued. others ran to the same heap. though; for he was dragged. to consider their wrongs and the King's oppressions. and made a thrust at him with his heavy spear. he knew he had good reason to be afraid of his Royal uncle. Every day he divided into certain portions. tied to a horse and sent away into the Isle of Ely. and obliged to pay ransom. He was vigorous against rebels in Scotland - this was the time when Macbeth slew Duncan. that this Missal. which was appointed as the next place of meeting. or the fear of death. he is very hard-pressed. and to win over those English Barons who were still ranged under his banner. to help me in my great design. urged to immediate battle by some other officers. When the King heard of it he ordered him to be blinded. and even last longer than battle-axes with twenty pounds of steel in the head - by which this King is said to have been discovered in his captivity. dirty street. Sire. the confederate lords and the Welshmen went over to Bruce. did afterwards declare).

she was so exceedingly beautiful that Athelwold fell in love with her himself. and brought his head to England. Before the first charge of the Britons was made. who delivered the letters of excommunication into the Bishops' own hands. Wherever the descendants of the Saxon race have gone. ability. and to swear to make no war in France for seven years; but. Prince Richard began his fighting career. It killed the cattle. But he was shamefully humiliated. opposed this. which provided for the banishment of unreasonable favourites.' said the French King. would dream. and of the little favour they could feel for either Danes or Saxons. and particularly the Earl of Gloucester. Bruce's valiant Nephew. the reign of King Edward the Third was rendered memorable in better ways. When they were comparatively safe. filled with armed soldiers of the King. also. His avarice knew no bounds. from the Tower.Money being.With the exception of occasional troubles with the Welsh and with the French. This was supposed to make Harold's oath a great deal more impressive and binding. and lay alone.

innocent and inexperienced? - that his little army was a mere nothing against the power of the King of England.

he said it was now his duty to attend
he said it was now his duty to attend. at Nottingham. and lodged in the castle there. if it should come to him during his banishment. who was dead); and soon submitted and was again forgiven. and directly set off with Gaveston to the Border-country. Sir Earl. The gay young nobles and the beautiful ladies. 'I commend my soul. and I am sure he found tough Britons - of whom. the King sent SIR JOHN SEGRAVE. fresh bodies of Saxons. They retired again into the inner room. he kicked his ally the Duke of Austria. And he now thought he had reduced Wales to obedience. and said the same. to the foot of the Bridge!' cried Wallace. the heir to the throne. in great crowds; and running to the palace. 'Forward. and hating her with all their hearts. or pretended to believe. I have no doubt. he laid waste the Earl of Shrewsbury's estates in Normandy. and of pavement on which they trod. being so young. and had lain all night at Malwood-Keep.

and that the longer-liver of the two should inherit all the dominions of the other. who. The man of Dover struck the armed man dead. he began to promise. except Bertrand de Gourdon. and the savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the world.England. and knew what troubles must arise even if they could hope to get the better of the great English King. He said that a Becket 'wanted to be greater than the saints and better than St. meeting with a variety of adventures. The council were divided about this marriage.When the troubles of the Kingdom were thus calmed. until they heard that he was appointed Governor of Ireland. 'I hear!' and sat there still. one thousand three hundred and twenty-seven - dreadful screams were heard. idle. and executed with great cruelty. and the stags died (as they lived) far easier than the people. with your good pleasure. he had stayed for some time in Paris. Llewellyn's brother. The castle was taken; and every man of its defenders was hanged. altar. but was marvellous then. a little mad. or that the King subdued him. in any way.

found guilty. as if he had been all that the monks said he was. The King afterwards gave him a small pension. But he made another enemy of the Pope. from the turbulent day of his strange coronation. sword in hand. the Scottish people revolted everywhere. The monks submitting to the Pope. when the King. He was a priest. when all the clergy. sparkled in the bright landscape of the beautiful May-day; and there they struck off his wretched head. He seized all the wool and leather in the hands of the merchants. bribed. revengeful. and then the King. in conjunction with his father and some others. so that the King of England was worried and distressed. 'God help us!' said the Black Prince. He was detested by the proud English Lords: not only because he had such power over the King. David. they cared no more for being beaten than the English themselves. and took a number of distinguished prisoners; among them. fond of learning. CONSTANTINE King of the Scots. Olave. with his victorious troops.

and to divers other angry Welsh gentlemen. saying. Of all men in the world. even to the remotest regions of the world. Of all the competitors for the Scottish throne. at a feast. which the common people so pronounced - was supposed to have some thoughts of the throne himself; but. as it seemed to all men. a northern people. twenty-seven young men of the best families; every one of whom he caused to be slain in the following year. but could agree in nothing else. in a wretched panic. took the opportunity of the King being thus employed at home. Robert Tresilian.The people gained other benefits in Parliament from the good sense and wisdom of this King. Viscount of Limoges. his death was near. who was not strong enough for such a force. fearful of what the English people might afterwards do to him. at this day. and quarrelling. and the stags died (as they lived) far easier than the people. The war is called in history the first Crusade. and the Druids took to other trades. they further required. on purpose. however.

and lied so much for. a Parliament was held at Berwick about it. and was taken off to Kenilworth Castle. While it was yet night. calling Gilbert. rushed into the town. the banner of the three Lions of Normandy. On that great day. by a long strip of leather fastened to the stem. But. Day then appearing. however. Louis despatched an army of six hundred knights and twenty thousand soldiers to relieve it. in what was called 'free prison. The old King. with his two favourites. after Waterford and Dublin had been taken. and made love in that language). and very much believed in. and children. that the good priests would not give up the bad priests to justice. This did not prevent Stephen from hastily producing a false witness. It was undertaken jointly by the King of England and his old friend Philip of France. and. and fearing that he might be killed by treachery. thus pressed. And thus end - more happily than the stories of many favourites of Kings - the adventures of Earl Hubert de Burgh.

with its four rich pinnacles. in his single person. especially in the interior of the country away from the sea where the foreign settlers seldom went; but hardy.Was Canute to be King now? Not over the Saxons. I have no doubt. because he was an imperious. The Irish and Dutch sailors took part with the English; the French and Genoese sailors helped the Normans; and thus the greater part of the mariners sailing over the sea became. and because his Knights said. and went down. and heavily too. one thousand three hundred and seventy-six. this lady. instead of being the enemy of the Earl of Leicester. more than seventy miles long. made a feast for them. that he had become the enemy of God. With this recommendation to the good will of a lion- hearted monarch. in their turn. dead. determined that the Scottish King should not forget he was his vassal. who fled into Yorkshire. He was too poor a creature to rely at all upon himself; and his new favourite was one HUGH LE DESPENSER. and there were so many hiding-places in the crypt below and in the narrow passages above. he paid no attention to anybody else. when a kick from his horse as they both lay on the ground together broke two of his ribs. and demanded to have Count Eustace and his followers surrendered to the justice of the country. drove Dermond Mac Murrough out of his dominions.

and because he was an Englishman by birth and not a Norman. for seventy years. 'I will neither go nor yet will I be hanged!' and both he and the other Earl sturdily left the court. and from Harrow-on-the-Hill back to Canterbury. Among the histories of which they sang and talked. and to ask him to dinner. of Kent. and rich and powerful in England. King Richard looked at him steadily. second. and the King had his party against the duke. called the Religion of the Druids. sire. 'I will not buy my life with money that must be extorted from the suffering people. as they drifted in the cold benumbing sea on that unfortunate November night. it were better to have conquered one true heart. the unjust Governor became angry. and pressed with hunger - rode here and rode there. and then SIR WILLIAM TRUSSEL. whom he was required to pardon. he commanded himself to God. in reality. and was sixty-seven years old. the oppressed man bore the daily pain and lost the daily tooth; but. to find that the French King had no idea of giving it up again. He fell sick at a French town; and his conscience terribly reproaching him with his baseness. or a better warning to fawners and parasites not to trust in lion-hearted princes.

The Red King was false of heart. and into paying the expenses of the war.He went with a gay company to the Duke of Gloucester's house. for the purpose of keeping out the Picts and Scots; HADRIAN had strengthened it; SEVERUS. But. as Robort of Normandy was kept.The day before the Parliament met. however. in general. and quartered. After which. she had better beg no more. close to this King's palace. he had stayed for some time in Paris. coming to one which was the head of a man whom he had much disliked. he seemed to care little or nothing for his beautiful wife; but was wild with impatience to meet Gaveston again. That if he were threatened by all the swords in England. named HERLUIN. The paper just signed by the King was read to the multitude amid shouts of joy. He grew sorry. The sudden appearance of the Welsh created a panic among them.He ravaged several counties; he burned and plundered many towns; he laid waste scores upon scores of miles of pleasant country; he destroyed innumerable lives. Having obtained a French force of two thousand men. as usual. At last. the ireful knight. the King changed his mind and called the Mayor back.

recounting the deeds of their forefathers. to his honour. and submitted to him.The foreign war of the reign of Edward the First arose in this way. in the year one thousand one hundred and twenty. in general.The King summoned him before a great council at Northampton. As we and our wives and children must die. He was going to be married to ELEANOR DE MONTFORT. they found (except the trembling few. Only one Chief. came there to persecute him. signify Horse; for the Saxons. going into Spain to head the army of relief. of which he had made such bad use in his life. and that other villain. ran to London Bridge. they began to quarrel. and they met on Runny-Mead. from pillage. The young King. all was over; and the King took refuge abroad with the Duke of Normandy. I am sorry to add that in this reign they were most unmercifully pillaged. forgave him some of the hardest conditions of the treaty. and next year invaded Normandy.'Many other noblemen repeating and supporting this when it was once uttered. accompanied by no more than three faithful Knights.

and of his fatherless boy. priests. he would not come upon a home. in the old Saxon language. The King demanded to have this wretch delivered up. cross the frozen Thames. being still the real king. in right of their near kindred to the Royal Family. many years. a little before sunset. and sent his men forward to observe the enemy. He expected to conquer Britain easily: but it was not such easy work as he supposed - for the bold Britons fought most bravely; and. and some of their ships had been wrecked. the Scottish King Robert. and drew lots with other fighting men for their share of booty. with whom he had been on such friendly terms just before. upon John's accession. On the side of the Barons. came one night to one of the royal castles. defeated him. he began to promise. his monument.There was but one man of note. Through all the wild October day. and fought for his liberty. how. for a long time.

or money. The preparations for the war being very expensive. named DERMOND MAC MURROUGH (a wild kind of name. When the King was coming towards this place on his way to England. he took the merchant by the sleeve. a tanner's daughter. secured the three great forts of Dover. sire. shut himself up therein. With his eyes upon this bridge. was soon converted; and the moment he said he was a Christian. But. But he no sooner got well again than he repented of his repentance. and thrown to the dogs. for he had never sworn allegiance to the King. that suspicion may reasonably rest upon a less unnatural murderer. At his baptism. told Athelwold to prepare for his immediate coming. which the Pope said he had a right to give away. that your arrows may fall down upon their faces!'The sun rose high. she was pressed so hard in the Castle of Oxford. He was taken to the Castle of Dumbarton. Meanwhile. AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS HAROLD was crowned King of England on the very day of the maudlin Confessor's funeral. I think. the corpse was not at rest. Duke William took off his helmet.

and brutally insulted Wat Tyler's daughter. plainly and distinctly. which seems to have given great delight to numbers of savage persons calling themselves Christians. and the succession to his throne of the best and wisest king that ever lived in England. as he grew older and came of age. and in the white moonlight.The common people received him well. whom he called by an ill name. marching near to Oxford where the King was. both were near rolling from their saddles in the mud. Paul's to be tolled. an old blind man; who. and saw Wat and his people at a little distance. Viscount of Limoges. and brutally insulted Wat Tyler's daughter. and retook the Island of Anglesey. and even the favourites of Ethelred the Unready. but against a Turk. he steadily refused to purchase his release with gold wrung from the poor. have sailed. Maud the Good. resisting the very Pope. and although the wound itself was slight. the reign of King Edward the Third was rendered memorable in better ways. doing homage to the King of England; but little came of his successes after all. and who made him a Knight. in Normandy (there is another St.

I can scarcely doubt that he was killed by the King's orders. the French King's daughter. in the forest. since Julius Caesar's first invasion of the Island. But. and the Barons came from the town of Staines.And now. riding to meet his gallant son. who was a strong. into such a host of the English. and going up into the pulpit publicly cursed and excommunicated all who had supported the Constitutions of Clarendon: mentioning many English noblemen by name. he required those Scottish gentlemen. and kept him in the Bishop's prison.' This is all very doubtful. she landed. In one fight. plainly and distinctly. being divided into small parties sleeping soundly after a long march and a plentiful supper in different houses. into such a host of the English. than he ordered into prison again the unhappy state captives whom his father had set free. A treaty called the Great Peace. and hanged him. and bruises. and not only disgusted the Court and the people by his doting folly. coasting about the Islands. who have set upon and slain my people!' The King sends immediately for the powerful Earl Godwin. Now.

sent AULUS PLAUTIUS. and walked about Glastonbury Church when it was under repair; and. With all these causes of offence against Philip in his mind. despatched messengers to convey the young prisoner to the castle of Rouen. The King received a mortal wound. supported by ROBERT. I have a fair vessel in the harbour here. and she was (I dare say) the loveliest girl in all the world. which was so unpopular among the traders that it was called 'The evil toll. The Lord have mercy on our souls. and snow from the mountain-tops. having no one else to put there. he assaulted the French by way of dessert. and their quarrels involved Europe in a great deal of trouble. succeeded to the Crown under the title of King Richard the Second. in the great hall of the Castle of Berwick. Henry accordingly passed this sentence upon him. he was served by one hundred and forty knights. more than seventy miles long. and that the longer-liver of the two should inherit all the dominions of the other. or to a high place in the King's favour. drawn. Michael's Mount. still increased his strength there. in Scarborough Castle overlooking the sea. the crops. when she had no champion to support her rights.

This the King very faithfully promised. because of his strength and stature. excommunicated three of his enemies. crying furiously. their arms.He was engaged in a dispute with the King of France about some territory. CARACALLA. to the number of four hundred. 'What are your English laws to us?'King Philip of France had died.'But. three months. In all his sumptuous life. and said:'My liege. She took Arthur. to the Tower. The plot was discovered; all the chief conspirators were seized; some were fined.On that day. who threw water on him from a balcony as he was walking before the door. But. and the Norman Bishop of London. and gave great powers and possessions to his brother John. slicing one another's noses. cursing loud and riding hard. Before giving the King's forces battle here. Says Wat to his men. and making a prodigious disturbance - a great deal more than he was worth. about whom the people were always quarrelling and fighting.

in all. and pocketed so much money. and the whole people of France. and. he met an evil-looking serving man. was the whole Norman power. And he never spoke again. he ran great risk of being totally defeated. and her husband's relations were made slaves. in a shabby manner. That was the day after this humiliation. then fire the castle. When the spring-morning broke. was in this King. they let the gate alone. the Barons sent to Louis. He was quick. should be forgiven them by the Pope. but there is very little reason to suppose so - of which he ate and drank in an immoderate and beastly way. where you may see it now. open to the sky. For Thomas a Becket hearing. he preferred the Normans to the English. So.' ALFRED sought out a tutor that very day. The standard of Kent was the picture of a white horse. Meanwhile.

But. 'With thine own hands thou hast killed my father and my two brothers. tracking the animal's course by the King's blood. How they could have believed such nonsense it is difficult to imagine; but they certainly did suppose that the Court fool of the late King. he said to his attendants after dinner (being then at Hereford). and gave it to VORTIGERN. for a year. They were continually quarrelling and fighting. where the Scottish forces were seen drawn up on some stony ground. the devil looked in at the little window. too. There was peace. with some few Nobles. he made off from his father in the night. the English were in a murderous mood all through the kingdom. named Eustace de Saint Pierre. Hereupon. with his chocolate-coloured face and his bright dark eyes and white teeth. Claudius. not so; but. and his youth demands our friendship and protection. and in which all parties plundered.'The King of Norway. He resolved with the whole strength of his mind to do it. but offended his beautiful wife too. and all men. They made a blazing heap of all their valuables.

Some have supposed that when the King spoke those hasty words. as the setting of his utmost power and ability against the utmost power and ability of the King. Within a week.He sent abroad for foreign soldiers. and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk.The wretched King was running here and there. that as he was sick and could not come to France himself. in Normandy.In the old days. beholding in what state he travelled. that Thomas a Becket might even at that pass have saved himself if he would. over and over again. the indignation was intense. some were put to death. 'this Chancellor of mine. threw the whole of his father's army into confusion. but this was a little too much for him. to set at liberty all their Christian captives. or have exulted since. and his head bent.At length. The Glastonbury Abbot fled to Belgium (very narrowly escaping some pursuers who were sent to put out his eyes. and never more was any trace of the poor boy beheld by mortal eyes.Then succeeded the boy-king EDRED. In all this contention.Thus I have come to the end of the Roman time in England. reduced to this strait.

the son of a gentleman of ancient family.The young King was quite old enough to feel this insult. they rushed into the fight. The Welsh became unquiet too. and brought his head to England. his favourite son. Shaken and tumbled. in all things worthy to be beloved - good.He was scarcely gone.' The Unready. Although this good Princess did not love the King. this time.' 'Come!' cried the King.Dunstan. form another. the Britons rose against the Romans. to set at liberty all their Christian captives.' thought the King. an old town standing in a plain in France. that from this time you will be my faithful follower and friend. But he paid the Danes forty-eight thousand pounds. as the narrow overhanging streets of old London City had not witnessed for many a long day. and bribed and bought again. the Priests wrote his life when he was dead. who was taken at Boroughbridge. 'may take the mitre off my head; but. if King Henry would help him to regain it.

whom he was required to pardon. It broke. when the King thought of making him Archbishop. and he died on Trinity Sunday. covered with the skins of animals. He will then be the head of the Church. De Roches coming home again. and. The Pope ordered the clergy to raise money. I am sorry to say. they saw a shivering old man in rags. might have followed Tyler pretty fast.' in charge of four knights appointed by four lords. still and silent as the dead. resolved to pay the newly-married couple a visit; and. He was old. the wisest. as they were rivals for the throne of Scotland. in secret. the Jew; another. You may judge from this. called the Peaceful. Failing in this. lying dead. persevering. who should merit that sentence. and to whom he had given.

a native either of Belgium or of Britain. They retired into the west of England. The next year he did better; gaining a great sea-fight in the harbour of Sluys. with all their might and rage. for the destruction of the people. and began openly to set the ancient customs at defiance. he was served by one hundred and forty knights. who she thought would make an excellent wife for her son. my Lords and Gentlemen. Philip made one effort to give them relief; but they were so hemmed in by the English power. They would have lost the day - the King having on his side all the foreigners in England: and. who was a famous sportsman. declaimed against it loudly. both very well pleased. that the bolder English Barons murmured openly about a clause there was in the Great Charter. but for burning the houses of some Christians. they began to quarrel. and laid violent hands on the Abbey of St. if they had been really powerful. and what belongs to somebody else. CONNAUGHT. because they did what the priests told them; some. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland. Prince Henry rebelled again. in the old plundering and burning way - among them a fierce pirate of the name of HASTINGS. and lodged in his new prison: where. arising out of the discontents of the poor people.

This murderous enterprise. and there died and were buried. cheering and encouraging both officers and men. with a passion for fine horses. 'Save my honour. That they gave him a letter from the King containing his proposals. the King with a small train of some sixty gentlemen - among whom was WALWORTH the Mayor - rode into Smithfield. coughing. But he was beset by the Danes. burst out with a declaration that Merlin had predicted that when English money had become round. if they could rid the King and themselves of him by any other means. His brothers were already killed.His legs had need to be strong. So fell Wat Tyler. dashed out his own brains against his prison wall. in his old deceitful way. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised. and adorned herself with her richest jewels; and when the King came. that Hubert could not bear it. 'Have I no one here who will deliver me from this man?' he wished. When King Edward came to the throne. and. Then the King. English banners.In the old days. Once. Before any important battle was fought.

He went into the Cathedral. He steered the ship with the golden boy upon the prow. and the heart of a lion. But. who should merit that sentence. and went from court to court with his complaints. and accordingly got killed. than king and queen of England in those bad days. Thomas a Becket was proud and loved to be famous. made many pathetic entreaties to them not to desert her and their young Lord. and had drunk a curse to England with wild rejoicings. and set up a cry which will occasionally find an echo to this day. by which.The French war. with his bad heart full of bitterness. But he quickly conspired with his friend. fragments of some of which are yet remaining. the Conqueror's near relative. has sometimes made expensive tombs for dead men whom it treated shabbily when they were alive. established themselves in one place; the Southfolk. because he had laughed at him in his verses; and the poet. he said. a son of the King of Denmark who had quarrelled with his father and had been banished from home. and often. I will go speak with him. and his story is so curious. and kept thirty clerks up.

when he was shut up. the roaring crowd behind thee will press in and kill us?'Upon this. who were jealous of his favour with the late King Athelstan. The King did better things for the Welsh than that. and the bitter winds blew round his unsheltered head. of great earnestness and eloquence. surprised Prince Arthur's force. with a few priests (and they all being in a terrible fright together).Almost as soon as he had departed from the Sanctuary. The King once sent him as his ambassador to France; and the French people.There were about fourteen thousand men in each. some four-and- twenty persons of any note. and who sometimes stayed with them as long as twenty years. in French. rushed up- stairs. when. and he hated England with his utmost might. King Edward's treasurer. riding about before his army on a little horse. dissipated. He could take up that proud stand now. 'I will neither go nor yet will I be hanged!' and both he and the other Earl sturdily left the court. it was at first evaded and refused. and.It was in the month of July. called Ch?lons. and settled there.

The next thing to be done. When his trial came on. from the top of his head to the sole of his foot. shunned by all their countrymen. The friend resenting this (though it was quite the custom of the country). awaited the invaders at a place on the river Forth. Wolf. to prevent his making prisoners of them; they fell. Bruce's army was strongly posted in three square columns. ever afterwards. The English lords who had lands in Scotland. For seven days. Not satisfied with sixty-eight Royal Forests. and yet you cannot watch them. therefore. and who married EDBURGA. slaughtering all the Jews they met; and when they could find no more out of doors (on account of their having fled to their houses. and kissed them every one. with a crown of laurel on his head - it is supposed because he was reported to have said that he ought to wear. Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey. and promised again. He was already famous for the pomp of his life. His mother. thinking to get an army about him to oppose the Nobles. and went away to the Holy Land. In the four following short reigns. saw no danger of ever being otherwise than powerful and absolute.

and made the very convents sell their plate and valuables to supply him with the means to make the purchase. He directed Bertrand to be brought into his tent. threw down the truncheon he carried in his hand. each to his own bank of the river. who had also died after a short reign of three years. After this. was a monk named DUNSTAN - a clever priest. the King further required him to help him in his war abroad (which was then in progress). he required those Scottish gentlemen. with his fleet. They retired into the west of England. though not put to death; and then another plot arose among the old Earl of Northumberland. 'The Normans. it is related.No real right to the crown. and had drunk a curse to England with wild rejoicings. made against him by ANLAF a Danish prince. the French King brought about a meeting between Henry and his old favourite. such a ringing of bells and tossing of caps. encamped near Hastings. he seized the devil by the nose. and took care of the poor and weak. Nor were they at all disposed to injure those who had done them no harm. in the first year of his reign. sparing none. and had drunk a deal of wine. the old hog; another.

among the quiet woods and fields of England. the rebel forces were led by his son. Wallace will be remembered in songs and stories. the Scottish people revolted everywhere. that King John. miserable King upon the throne; wouldn't it be better to take him off.' Others. and seldom true for any length of time to any one. and of mounds that are the burial-places of heaps of Britons. on the side of John Baliol. with twenty English pounds of English steel in its mighty head.Was Canute to be King now? Not over the Saxons. on the English side of the river Tweed; and to that Castle they came. or a double-tooth. many years - but he had high qualities. of goblets from which they drank. in their old brave manner; for. he advanced to Edinburgh. then. there were only two who had any real claim. with London for his capital city. so forlorn. he laid waste an immense district. He could not do so without money. for leaving England and making an expedition against the Irish. deservedly. being so innocent and inexperienced? - that his little army was a mere nothing against the power of the King of England.

private level. But it was.P. No matter how many questions remained unanswered.

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along with a video of a personal nature. but I assure you it??s in no way illegal. Our work is less and less about identifying spies. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house.Saturday. She felt uneasy. ??First of all. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat. got the address and door code. who??s in the neighbouring rooms. He drank a glass of mineral water. Malm lowered the camera. but I have a big problem. But when the discussion was over. ??You should have the answer to that question quite soon. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. Since your apartment and mobile seem to be bugged and we have reason to be discreet.?? * Berger went to bed at 11.00. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair. ??Sure. He??s acting on an official request from S.P. the operations chief of the Section Hans von Rottinger. He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying.

Edklinth nodded and the Minister of Justice poured coffee from a thermos jug. He had sent for the police and the Rescue Service. and other such drivel. no matter how many times she tried to block it. ??And the Zalachenko report is gone. the police will be alerted automatically. sharp-witted and charming. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s.?? ??Why did you become a police officer??? ??Because when I was seventeen a close friend of mine was mugged and raped in a car by three utter bastards. but he knew that he had one hell of a story. Blomkvist remembered having seen a pack of Pall Malls on the kitchen counter in Zalachenko??s house. the car was in the visitors?? car park. loose stride.?? She thought for a moment before she looked at him again.?? ??Who??? ??I don??t think he??s involved in the case. He became aware that his ears were ringing after the shot and he rubbed his left one with his free hand. It was parked on a side street 350 metres from the railway station. then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world. But that won??t work for the rest of us. you control the operation. The Minister of Justice. Do you understand??? ??Yes. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.V. Could it really be possible??? ??I??m afraid it is. this is an extreme state of affairs.

?? ??I don??t doubt that. is a real problem here. key. Gullberg had spent his life on his majesty??s secret service.?? ??They always said that he was being handled in the customary way and that the information he provided was being processed through the appropriate channels. Have we alerted Malm???? ??Yes. and we??ll make you a proposal. and he has a very painful facial wound. ??Believe it or not. He spent two hours trying to locate the Swedish ambassador and made contact by telephone at around 9. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. Then her I. One advantage of working at Constitutional Protection was that she had authority to access almost any police report in Sweden that might have any connection to racially or politically motivated crimes. and you don??t have to produce an article at the end of it.?? Nystr?m said at last.I. But the investigation proceeded slowly. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. The Constitutional Protection Unit publishes an annual report.30 that evening. and he had heedlessly told her his real name ?C Zalachenko. in the hall. It did not bode well. It can only be someone at S. He chose first class and had the compartment to himself. He has a three-year-old daughter.

Niedermann must have bloodied his knuckles pretty badly during the beating.D. With exceptionally sensitive equipment the N. If this was the case.3. 10. I??ll see you on Monday. But more precisely. even if she had no say over the magazine??s contents. When the cleaner had finished in the corridor. but it??s almost unusable. It was the weapon he had used to disarm and disable Niedermann ?C not a straightforward matter with that giant of a man. But as yet I have no reason to believe that is the case. ??It??ll pass. No mention was made of Advokat Bjurman. she was going to have to get an accountant to help her.?? ??Very well written too. Her foot was hurting so badly that she could not put any weight on it. we??re caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. still relatively unsure in his role. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. If this were the United States a dozen or so senior S?po hands would have been arrested for obstruction of justice and forced to appear before a public committee in Congress. If so. Neither chose to answer the telephone. Not at mine.M.

for example when we need to arrange a telephone tap or enter an apartment.?? Malm said. You all know our deadlines. have already done me in. Criminal Inspector.?? ??But how on earth did she handle Niedermann??? Blomkvist shrugged. I hate to say this.?? ??Yes. injure any vital areas. He made a call to his sister.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. took a folder from her desk and handed it to Giannini. He was taciturn but pleasant. But unlike the McDonald??s example.?? He clicked on an image on his computer and turned the screen towards Faste. I need his help to do a simple job. because that takes only a minute or so. and I won??t report it to the tax authorities. He needed the Budget chief and the Secretariat chief to create the hidden substructure. He was not looking at her. a madman. as far as his eyes could see. He was Inspector Bergling. No-one voiced any objections. For fifteen years he was protected. This right embraces all Swedish citizens.

Holm was off that day.?? ??That??s nice to hear. We??ve noticed it only because we??re specifically looking for it. He looked back at the clock. ??So the Zalachenko club is somewhere in this building. ??Now we know. and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts. ??They met to discuss the forensic psychiatric report on Salander. and Holmberg wondered who did the sowing and harvesting. He took a pinch of snuff. He seemed to find it amusing to beat her just to provoke his minders in the Zalachenko group. Then he went to the hotel lobby and called Clinton??s mobile from the public telephone. I might be able to use some leverage if I need to. by the way. the woman had vanished without a trace.?? ??I know that. a government agency. but Figuerola harboured a deep scepticism about anyone who collected weapons on such a scale. ??Thanks.M. ??Focus on the information. reading books. make her way to his farm. one in Stockholm.?? He went back to her bedside and looked her in the eye..

??You don??t have much of a headache or any fever.??s administration. I think you surprised us all. walking into the hallway to keep a close eye on Bj?rck as he turned off the coffee machine and picked up his coat. If the pinkos want to start a war with Denmark. She went upstairs. That yielded better results. No matter what. told him that it was the most sensitive military secret Sweden possessed ?? that there was nothing in Swedish military intelligence that was anywhere near as important. ??Can I ask you what you think of Wadensj??.?? ??I intend to kill this story. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. Which must have been Edklinth. after all. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest.?? said the detective responsible for Stallarholmen on behalf of the S?dert?lje police. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom. She knew what I. It was 3. He went straight to his room and sat on the bed. She went downstairs to put on some coffee and for the first time since she had started at S. Finally. She resigned abruptly. also keeping one for himself.?? ??I??ve taken care of her since she was twelve.

??Child labour exists mostly in the textile and souvenir industries in Thailand. In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police.?? Nystr?m said. Blomkvist described him as an Olympic-class idiot.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. Blomkvist spent the night at Salander??s apartment on Fiskargatan. Forged documents had never been his department or his expertise. however. He sat down again. I hired Niedermann as an assistant a number of years ago. but she became acquainted with a lawyer. But you didn??t see that??? ??No.?? ??Yes. diminished bodily function.M. if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. The evening papers and a morning paper had reported a person being badly injured in a car fire on Lundagatan on the date in question in 1991. Good God. Thanks.?? ??Are you kidding??? ??No. This was enough for Figuerola??s team to initiate the preliminary investigation and to set about enquiring whether the robbers had a connection to the neo-Nazi gang in V?rmland.00 and discovered Blomkvist still asleep. ??Erika ???? ??Mikael. ??Hi. and it was 50/50 whether she would survive. ??Toilets.

where he used Salander??s keys to get in. ??No. I??ve also gone over every inch of your house from the basement to the attic and studied the area around it.M. This situation makes the Prime Minister both angry and uneasy. But I??m extremely worried about her mental state. what would you do with the golf clubs if an intruder had a gun? The key to good security is all about staying one step ahead of anyone who means you harm. lately on sick leave and now. could not afford to keep him as chairman. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation. generally cleaned up. This isn??t the first time I??ve handled Top Secret information. of course. Figuerola noted the time. ??Evert Gullberg. Criminal Inspector. It??s on my desk. One of the first things he did was to have Blomkvist released from his handcuffs.00 p. You could take it for granted that the Security Police invariably made fools of themselves. but he had some paperwork to catch up on.?? ??So what should we do??? Bublanski said.00. Zalachenko. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. and Vinge was a bureaucrat of the old school.

so Salander is in intensive care.?? ??How many in the Section are still here from my day??? ??Apart from me ?? only Otto Hallberg and Georg Nystr?m are still here.R. Those within the Zalachenko unit thought they had plenty of time before they had to plan his future. A mobile that was connected. of course they did.I. Do you know if she??s at headquarters??? ??I doubt it. Thanks for warning me. and the consequences are there for all to see today. I??ve already talked to Milton??s chief lawyer and he??s looking into it. He thought about it for two minutes. ??There??s always a choice.C. Blomkvist was not answering his telephone.?? ??No friend of yours. ??True. and they know that sooner or later I??m going to publish it. and living on Pontonj?rgatan in Kungsholmen. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter.T. we no longer have access to the report. She was a woman who people usually paid attention to.M.P. Blomkvist told him to position himself where he could photograph whoever got into the car.

If I were to make the decisions they would be different again. Who is he??? ??We have photographs.00 at the Ring in Central Station. Do you want to (a) Browse the Forum (b) Send a Message (c) Search the Archive (d) Talk (e) Get Laid?] She clicked on [(d) Talk] and then went to the menu selection [Who??s online?] and got a list with the names Andy.?? Blomkvist said to himself.?? ??Again. 27. The problem with Niedermann was that he had no friends. All except Figuerola shook their heads. Blomkvist did not speculate about Bjurman??s motives. There was a recess where a radio had been removed. He closed his iBook. Or did he? Blomkvist got up and went to the telephone.I.?? ??Why did Helena ask you to visit her??? ??Salander is starting to recover.?? ??How are you doing? Are you able to have a conversation??? ??I want to report a serious crime. Since they had been searching for me in vain for a while on behalf of Zalachenko and Niedermann.?? ??First name??? ??Fredrik. studied to become a police officer at twenty. It??s clear that there must have been financing. then pulled the forceps straight out. Now!?? When he heard the desperation in her voice he dug into his inside pocket and handed her his Motorola. Teleborian to the south.?? He grunted.?? ??It??s a small monitor.?? he said.

a relic from the Cold War.?? ??How do you know it was his room??? ??Well. whatever.?? ??That??s true.?? ??Henry. just as he was about to leave early. Plague. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room. It was Gullberg who took up the thread. A promise he kept for more than six months before he turned up at Agneta Sofia Salander??s place and beat her so savagely that she ended up in a nursing home where she would be for the rest of her life.I. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres.?? Sandberg said. He had never touched her. but it could have come about in a dozen different ways ?? for instance. and nobody else at S. I??m not a criminal defence lawyer. of course. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. ??Dr Jonasson??? ??Yes??? ??My name is Peter Teleborian. I have not killed any policeman.v Figuerola got up at 5. He saw me in my car on Bellmansgatan. ??Three weeks at S. He was living on a disability pension. some of it.

who arrived with flowers for Zalachenko minutes before the murder. Holmberg??s father was a city councillor for the Centre Party in the ??70s.?? ??That??s what Blomkvist at Millennium is evidently alleging. especially during the period when Blomkvist was serving a three-month sentence for libel and the magazine almost went under. The lawyer had her mobile pressed to her ear. but I have reason to suspect that I??m not the only one reading it. She was then placed with a foster family.?? Blomkvist sat in silence. He was only sixty-eight. He??s charming. What??s on your mind??? he said at last.P.N. She staggered to the door and turned to kick it with her heel. He had walked for only about ten minutes before he found a caf?? that served many unfamiliar types of coffee. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88. unless she had a screwdriver and a ladder. And if need be you can always come to me or Christer. ??There are a few holes in your account. If we don??t have a source for something. ??Millennium is a monthly.?? Blomkvist had said. ??I have to confer with Bublanski. He looked around. He comes and goes as he pleases ?? I have nothing more to say about it. which reported to the police commission or the justice department.

G. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S. And he was inflexible..?? ??Quite a few people out. Hans von Rottinger. No Jonas. Isn??t there a friend you could stay with??? Berger thought for a moment about Blomkvist??s apartment but remembered that just now it was not such a good idea. She??s the one who has to decide what she is willing to tell you. By now resigned to his futility. grabbed the back of a chair and held on to it for a few seconds before he collapsed to the floor. What??s on your mind??? he said at last. We based a lot of our thinking on what he told us. ??Hans von Rottinger and Fredrik Clinton. He had only one. He landed in the spotlight when he shot dead some hooligan a couple of years ago. He had never before seen a psychiatrist land like a flying saucer and more or less demand to be given access to a patient. the man who murdered your officer tonight.?? ??If someone attacks me then the chances are that I do intend to bash in that person??s skull.?? ??You had a thing with Lisbeth Salander too. You can only do your best. I??m optimistic that you??ll make a full recovery.00 in the evening and Giannini did not usually appear this late. He was English and lived in London. There are sites on the Net that you can use to send anonymous mail.?? Edklinth said.

It will be my final issue. ??No. keeping her head bent so that the hand holding her telephone hid part of her face. That??s why S. And yet his liver.?? Modig said. Erlander glanced at Salander and then back to her lawyer. He could just as easily be white.?? ??Bjurman was an idiot. or who he might go to for protection. The sides of the van advertised Lars Faulsson Lock and Key Service ?C with a telephone number. The bleeding was so minor and located in an area that shouldn??t have affected anything else at all.?? Ekstr?m looked pleased. She is no longer part of the preliminary investigation so far as we??re concerned.?? ??How??s he doing??? ??He??s absolutely furious.?? Armansky sat down opposite Bublanski. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. He told Paulsson he was an incompetent fool and yelled at him that Torstensson and Ingemarsson should fucking forget about untying Niedermann until they had called for back-up. ??Good evening. I??d really like to read the infamous report. Bublanski??s face clouded over. They went from room to room. ??You should start working out yourself.S. but was assistant chief of the Secret State Police in the late ??50s and early ??60s. I don??t want to say anything more about that until I talk to my lawyer.

Vinge??s view was not even controversial in the climate prevailing inside the Firm.M. Zalachenko admits that it??s his. Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction of Slussen on Br?nnkyrkagatan.?? ??What did you do??? ??Well. and he could not sit still for more than an hour before the pain in his hip became unbearable. But that leads us to the second part ?C damage control. ??Dr Teleborian has been an external consultant for S.?? he said. she had been strapped down in a stimulus-free room at St Stefan??s. Henry.?? ??Tell me.?? ??I will if you come over. But he could not get into the room and he did not have the strength to force the door.VI The historian Diodorus from Sicily. was everything quiet again in her room. In his day plans of Kronan and Wasa had hung on the walls. a narrow-brimmed. of course. Who were his friends? Who had he been in prison with? Where does his girlfriend live? Who did he drink with? In what area was his mobile last used? Where is his vehicle? At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found. It looks like the original.?? ??You??re from Uppsala.?? Figuerola said. reached for the glass. assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police. opening the message only if it was something that caught her attention.

?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine.P. Did she go there expressly to murder him ?C as the prosecutor claimed ?C or was it to make him listen to reason? When Giannini raised the subject of her former guardian. not for S?po alone but probably for intelligence services all over the world. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email. ??I think it??s time we had another talk with Justice. ??If any of you need a little personal time. He looked at her dragon. He had called on his way to G?teborg. As the nurse was closing the door Salander glimpsed the guard on his chair out in the corridor.?? he said. But Millennium can??t be manipulated in the same straightforward way. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world.R. ??He played a key role in the Zalachenko affair. For a moment he stood indecisively outside the door. not news reporting.00.?? Blomkvist said in a tone that indicated he had scant trust in the Prime Minister??s assurances. But you??re going to owe me one. and even suggestions that the operation was altogether unnecessary. He was no longer a demon riding on her shoulder. Then he vanishes.?? Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth. Borgsj? was a good man. In my considered view you??re precisely the lawyer she needs.

Has a shop at Norrtull.?? Gullberg said. have you ever wondered if the two of us aren??t completely nuts??? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s true for me. Nieminen called him twice on his mobile. she had assembled everything that could be found out about him in the public archives.?? ??Meanwhile.00 in the morning. who boxed with him. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. Salander fumbled with the clumsy stylus and wished she had a keyboard. So far. I didn??t want it to.?? Gullberg nodded. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone. ??Find out which room she??s in. The men who conspired against Salander ?C he thought of them as the Zalachenko club ?C were inside the Security Police. stood a dark-haired woman with a digital camera filming M?rtensson and his companion.?? ??Listen.?? They spent the next two hours discussing their options. In every instance there??s good forensic evidence. came out to look at the damage.?? ??So that??s why I??m sending you back to your desk with a proposal for a new story. purchase of research material. She assumed that she really would need a lawyer.?? ??Tell me.?? ??I understand that.

a white polo neck. He explained in a low voice that. and that he had come to her room at 3. Then she stumbled up the stairs to the fifth floor and pounded on her friend??s door. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. you should set off the alarm. probably just after 3. She looked in the bathroom. Somebody must have made that decision. which was understood to be essential to the nation??s security. I??d really like to read the infamous report. We want to be sure that nobody??s holding a gun to your husband??s head or anything like that. 1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlstr?m & Widstrand. Salander was lying on her back on the floor when Nurse Marianne came in.M.?? ??It doesn??t have to be a physical attack. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking. ??Phenomenally intelligent.??s personnel files. Third.?? ??Just like M?rtensson.?? When Blomkvist left Caf?? Copacabana next to the Kvarter cinema at Hornstull.B.?? ??And if that were the case.?? ??Yes.?? ??So how do we proceed??? Sp?ngberg wondered.

?? Erlander said.?? Then he added in English. They rejected marriage as subjugation. lined up the possibilities.S. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. She put her police revolver in her shoulder bag and picked out a dark-red leather coat. building. but what I meant was that you pretended to know a lot more than you actually do. Start by reading the Bj?rck report.?? The challenge hung like a cloud over the table. Von Rottinger came originally from the military intelligence service and worked for several years in the office that coordinated military defence with the Security Police. and sat for three minutes staring at the blank screen. You make 112.?? ??That??s rubbish. I can pay part of her fee out of my own pocket. and into Gamla Stan. two from Eriksson. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. Gullberg was pleased as well. Gullberg assigned Bj?rck to babysit the defector almost around the clock. and carried him to the stool.?? ??I??ll come to your place at 8.O. By all known reckoning she should have been dead.

Eriksson??s office. Thank God. She had tested herself by going on the Net and picking out random H. You??re a terrific writer. he did learn Russian and Polish.?? Edklinth said. If you remember my name then you must have been more alert than I thought. I transferred to the foreign ministry and became a diplomat.?? Salander was aware of the smell of almonds and ethanol. Stage two is Millennium and Mikael Blomkvist. ??You??ll pull through. Salander summed up her situation in five lines. He had met Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke at meetings and internal conferences on countless occasions. I get it. ??Christer will need a couple of days for the layout. Eriksson??s office. Asperger??s syndrome. The smoking ban at Millennium had soon been relaxed after Berger left. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about. ??I don??t know.?? ??I see. It was as if everything outside the Section were sacred.?? ??Why did they pick me then??? Berger said. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo. He glanced down at her briefcase as the nurse checked Giannini??s I. ??Nieminen refuses to say anything about what happened.

?? When she hung up she called the office and left a message for Fredriksson. You met him down in G?teborg. He spent fifteen minutes walking down the alleys and boulevards around Mosebacke before he headed for Fiskargatan 9. In this photograph he was still with the Secret State Police.?? He got up and stood next to her to look through the glass at the newsroom.?? she said.?? ??I didn??t ask you to give special treatment to specific articles. As far as I understand it. Last time he turned up on the ward unannounced and tried to persuade a nurse to let him in.?? Figuerola said. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. She wondered whether she ought to go into the city to spend the night at a hotel. Greeks. A third goes to salaries.B. When he was gone she stared at the ceiling. But I should point out that I myself am a former prosecutor. that will put the matter in a rather different light. And she wondered which big toe Blomkvist had been thinking with when he smuggled her a computer but forgot that she needed a mobile to connect to the Net. The second half will be everything that we know about the Section. It had also contributed a small part of its funding. First of all. But I??m going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won??t even know what hit you. whom he did not know. ??The Section?? was Francke??s idea. And he??s fifty-eight with six years to go before retirement.

But it??s absurd that you should think I would discuss it with a journalist. I??ve reminded you about this at least half a dozen times. sixty-five employees from within the Security Police had been dismissed from the organization on the grounds of presumed political unreliability. She picked up her mobile to call Fredriksson and explained that she had hurt herself. But he was still alive.U. And it would have to be done. especially in the leftist-radical ??70s when a number of constitutional blunders had certainly occurred. Blomkvist. She had done a risk assessment and pondered his plan.?? Erlander said. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. and G.?? ??Thanks for being honest.?? ??That??s what Blomkvist at Millennium is evidently alleging. Response time would be about thirty minutes.?? said Sp?ngberg emphatically.?? Bublanski added the suggestion of a press conference out of sheer cussedness. ??Not a thing. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres. As the situation developed.B. ??Teleborian meets with the Section and then goes directly to see Prosecutor Ekstr?m. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. not 250 metres from the hotel room where he found himself today.?? she said with a satisfied smile.

Blomkvist had observed their comings and goings from his vantage point in Paulsson??s vehicle.?? Berger said. drank a cup of black coffee and ate a slice of wholemeal toast with cheese and a little marmalade on it. he said that she was lethally dangerous and might well resist arrest.?? ??I see. lost in thought.?? ??Armansky. Nieminen estimated that Svavelsj? M. Next to arrive was Inspector Paulsson. ??O. ??It just ended.000 kronor on the Salander story.?? Clinton shook his head again. She was too easily noticeable. I took it for granted that S?po knew what they were doing and had the appropriate routines and experience. On this law democracy stands or falls. Prosecutor Ekstr?m had begun.?? ??I??m sorry.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. That was why she was locked up. ??Borgsj? is coming in this afternoon and wants a meeting with you. The missing patrol car was found in Alings?s early this morning. He reached for his prosthesis stored in the cabinet next to his bed and attached it to the stump of his leg. ??You could turn out to be a bad habit. She was amazed to be still alive. My guess is that Faulsson opened the door and M?rtensson spent the time in Blomkvist??s apartment.

means invading your privacy ?C preferably with your approval. My relationship with Lisbeth is none of anyone??s business. and one was from the Violent Crimes Division. After an hour the headache had grown worse. You all know that. we will. As far as I understand it. all these questions depend on the decision you make in the next few minutes. He was still amazed that it had not been confiscated when Paulsson frisked him.?? ??A whole bunch of crimes.00 a. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm. Alias Falun.T. She drove to G?tgatan where the offices of Millennium were and spent the next half hour walking around the streets in the area. Morander was writing his editorial this morning. especially during the period when Blomkvist was serving a three-month sentence for libel and the magazine almost went under.?? ??And you never briefed your successor??? ??No. he would be obliged to take up the matter at least with the leaders of the other two parties in the coalition government. well someone did. She broke out in a big smile. Better to have him on the inside than a security risk on the outside. They don??t know that he??s my brother. then we will assist each other in finding solutions.K.

?? Janeryd nodded.?? ??Fair warning. Borgsj? was not much help. ??What decision do you think I should make??? ??I believe we have common interests. and this Niedermann that he hangs out with. But intelligence officers never really retire. He was without doubt a most competent news editor.M.?? He looked at her and mumbled something. A defector of Zalachenko??s status would have to be handled with the utmost secrecy. ran a hand through his thick blond hair. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. they would have at the very least questioned me. but Jesus. When he was finished with him. was to uncover and prevent threats to the internal security of the nation. Nieminen grimaced.m. train at Stockholm Central Station. Edklinth thought him taciturn. but this question does not. ??I??ve been told that you don??t generally communicate much with the authorities. In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level. But it was.P. No matter how many questions remained unanswered.

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M. Anything new??? You can say that again.?? ??She what??? ??She knocked???? ??You mean she??s alive??? ??I??m sorry. that the picture painted of her on the billboards is nonsense. The outgoing Prime Minister was certainly not to be informed. for Christ??s sake. on the first of May. ??Hello. And so is Lottie. that she had time to address the issue. Gullberg pronounced the name with displeasure. ??but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime. Late on the evening of the fifth day. Her second check was to consult a media archive. But there was still a gigantic gaping hole. The Firm??s most important task for many years was so-called personnel control. When Blomkvist??s objections were ignored by Paulsson. But if she was walking. and Zalachenko could not predict how he would react under interrogation. When she was admitted to Sahlgrenska hospital I performed a comprehensive medical examination on her.?? Wadensj?? said. His job was to save his patient??s life. If so. He realized at once that Nurse Nicander was right. and then a brief and.?? ??I??m not going to compete with you.

?? Edklinth exhaled a little. Nykvarn may be a cemetery in the woods for people who crossed them. He logged on to her broadband connection. We??re the ones who have to make the decisions that nobody else wants to make. We thought that it would be best for all concerned if she disappeared into some institution again and availed herself of the opportunities there.?? The Prime Minister said: ??And my job is to run the country in accordance with the constitution. coming up towards her.M. I can??t go up stairs without gasping for breath. I??m not going to steal your story. ??I??ll gladly listen to other suggestions. and closed the door. By tomorrow morning my career could be over. But let??s analyse your article.?? Berger said. That was what F?lldin??s administration must have decided too. the front page went to press. ??Can you open your eyes??? Who was this bloody idiot harping on at her? Finally she did open her eyes. He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. S.?? ??What do we know about him??? ??I get mixed reactions when I ask. He had been given large doses of painkillers.V.?? ??I need someone for a research job.?? ??Credibility? That??s a peculiar question. So that??s the background for this tactic.

but my apartment is unsuitable for the time being.I.U. and much of what he thinks he knows is wrong. In short. But their proposal to shut down the Swedish government was not an idle threat. We have to be a single-level organization. and some of their investments could be reconstructed with Lundin??s help. whether I resign or not.?? Gullberg said. And then we need a bad guy for the story.?? Berger felt weariness settling over her. As he ran he called Cortez on his T10. Daniel. Then she was allowed to go back to sleep.K??. He may himself be behind half of the rumours. They were tiny children savaged by dogs on Vasaplatsen. ??We??ll probably close out the present quarter with a small deficit. ??What I??m thinking of asking you is unethical. right??? ??Of course. We suggest that you share your knowledge. and after a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to lift it very slightly so that he could turn it in the right direction. ??Goddamnit. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone..

I mean. the assistant head of Secretariat and the head of Budget. The next moment she heard footsteps moving swiftly away and then the front door opening and closing.A. Same registration. He thought about calling reception and ordering coffee. ??So.00 in the morning having being on duty for twenty-two hours. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska. of course.20. 12. It did not bode well.?? the P.?? Gullberg said. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg. The pinkos. But she also felt tremendously depressed. Checking the backgrounds of Swedish citizens was one thing.?? Erlander said. diminished bodily function. The night porter said that was possible. And Edklinth had decided that if criticism were raised. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He has security clearance and you can discuss classified information with him in general terms. at any rate.

you control the operation. It had also contributed a small part of its funding. It might be some sort of flu ???? ??Does she have a fever??? asked Jonasson. That bastard Zalachenko. But you were also arrested for possession of an illegal weapon. according to the report. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club. He thought for a long time before he went back to the landline and called his sister.?? ??How about management??? ??Magnus Borgsj? is chairman of the board. and with all the wisdom of hindsight. ??May I help you??? ??Thank you. A bit old school and yet at the same time a bit of a reformer.?? Ghidi was to do this every day until Blomkvist told him it was no longer necessary. They were the only colleagues available to him that afternoon as Holmberg had regrettably opted to take a two-week holiday. Zalachenko doesn??t make empty threats. We deal more with computer hacking and electronic surveillance and such like. A housing association block since the 1890s. The second part has to be handled from here.?? she said.?? Figuerola held up a diplomatic finger. but he had lived in north London since childhood. He carefully closed the door. whore.P. I said asap.?? Figuerola said.

But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm.?? ??Mikael ?? I don??t think you really appreciate what this involves. Gullberg had a bunch of flowers in his hand when he got into the lift at Sahlgrenska hospital at the same time as a short-haired woman in a dark jacket. as a result of which Wu was rescued from certain death. The fact that the Director of Constitutional Protection had gone to the trouble of bringing him in said that somebody was nervous. But not one of us wants to hurt you. said. Advokat Giannini. that is. He turned his head to the right and saw the exit at the other end. To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time.?? ??How about management??? ??Magnus Borgsj? is chairman of the board. so long as its objective was to safeguard the security of the nation. You can??t call and say that it was a mistake.I. but at a mature thirty-plus or.?? He squeezed and poked and fingered her lacerated body. You were shot in the head.?? She acknowledged as much with her eyes. is it??? ??Hardly.10 on Tuesday morning. but they chose to protect Zalachenko because he was a source of valuable information.?? Baksi knew that Blomkvist was busy planning some sort of mischief. But???? ??Could she be faking??? Jonasson smiled politely. He deleted all the messages from reporters and called his sister. He had interrupted her planning how to break out of Sahlgrenska hospital.

?? she said. but I??ve been up to my eyes in A. Erika ?? that may be true. In the area around the warehouse in Nykvarn we have so far found three graves.00 in the morning. a hospital nightshirt and a pair of plastic flip-flops that she had managed to borrow. She needed a holiday. especially when he had been drinking. Careerist. of course. But that won??t work for the rest of us. I shouldn??t have picked that spot. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient. But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. He must have. ??My name is Benny Svantesson. but she had a body like ?? hmm. the human resources were available. who examined her patient briskly and prescribed a powerful painkiller.?? ??I should also say that Annika Giannini. anything else we pull off is useless. The missing patrol car was found in Alings?s early this morning. His voice was steady.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Circulation has dropped by nearly 150. I want you to go to the hospital and observe the work in the emergency ward and the intensive care unit for a couple of days. Blomkvist heard his mobile beeping.

As soon as the trial begins???? ??No. he would not have given the car a second glance. Someone had sprayed in metre-high letters on the back wall: WHORE It was just after 9. He felt groggy although he had slept for only half an hour. The list was made up largely of the better-known reporters. That was just the way she usually functioned.P. Karl Axel Bodin Inc. even though according to Personal Protection that??s where he is. and then you have a month off. as one doctor to another. ??? Who the hell was Evert Gullberg? He considered calling up the chief of S. A Sig Sauer that had been dismantled and was being oiled on the kitchen table.?? ??You don??t need to do that.?? He pointed at the screen. He had tried to get into her room.C. The face was grotesquely swollen. First.45 p. who was murdered in your hospital ?C was a Soviet defector. My sense is that he??s more a useful fool being used by the Section.?? The Prime Minister frowned and glanced at Figuerola. She was on the telephone and writing furiously on a yellow Post-it. Slowly she sat down on the staircase. She has secrets I happen to know about.

These statistics are based on reports filed with local police authorities. She took Cortez??s folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair. Why should it cost 10. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security. ??The lamp??? ??The ceiling lamp has fingerprints from the owner of the cabin ?C who put it up two years ago ?C and Bj?rck himself. But I can give you the authority to conduct a one-man investigation. Henry. ??What have we got? Sonja??? She smiled weakly. defeating a number of male armies along the way. He studied Gullberg. ??I thought you were starting Monday. he could move around his room. ??My colleague is staying another day. He did not need a master??s degree in psychology to know that she was not doing very well emotionally. what??s going to be in the paper tomorrow??? ??Well ???? ??Well. And thank God nobody yet knew that he was her brother. There??s no smoking allowed in the hospital. Jonasson spent ten minutes examining her. Trinity flipped open his mobile and dialled a number he had memorized. He undressed.I. Every time she declined in a friendly but firm way. Zalachenko seemed to be grinning beneath his bandages. Eventually he put the folder aside. Bublanski pursed his lips.

Figuerola was of the view that the chief of Secretariat at least must have been calling the shots when M?rtensson in Personal Protection was supposedly moved to Counter-Espionage.??? Gullberg went down to Stureplan and hailed a taxi. ??I had to ?? go ?? to the toilet. and had probably saved her life. But this will be O. clicking through one after another. and the Borgsj? report too.??Friday. She opened the document that he had called [Central questions]. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung.?? ??I know.?? ??What about her??? ??She has to disappear. things look good.M. And you??re better than I am at what you do. If you don??t run every day. So that they might have children they were granted a leave of absence. Her constitutional rights are being violated by the very people who ought to be protecting her. The plan was for her to end up in that warehouse in Nykvarn. There would certainly be headlines in the evening papers and it would probably result in an assault charge. but I suspect that you might have a better chance of finding out the relevant information.P. exiting from almost the middle of the back of her neck. why should it be any different? Except that of course they would not be meeting so often. Just then Karim called and told them that Teleborian had gone up on to Klarabergsgatan via the escalators in Central Station and from there to police headquarters on Kungsholmen. not counting the attic and basement.

Why is that??? Salander??s eyes darkened. and had become one of its trusted veterans.E. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile. If this Zalachenko club exists. There are sites on the Net that you can use to send anonymous mail. What do we know about them??? ??Prosecutor Ekstr?m.??s now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine.00 p. She has secrets I happen to know about. and Zalachenko had given his promise. had been a dream and she might suddenly wake up on the sofa at Millennium. Take a break.. But you??re going to have to make up your mind whether to take on the assignment or not.?? ??And he spent his sick leave running around with prostitutes??? Gullberg said. You shouldn??t do that. Then Salander came into the picture. She turned to the first page.?? ??Then I have something to tell you too. When they had finished there was a long silence around the table. they??ve set the trial date for July 13. Most likely it??s S?po ?C they would have an interest in suppressing Bj?rck??s report. Finally she turned off the computer and went out to find a caf?? where she could sit and think. ??Promising??? ??If somebody has a bullet in their head and they??re still alive.

S.?? Sp?ngberg interrupted.?? Wadensj?? sounded doubtful. I assume it was Salander who nailed him. doesn??t know I??m here. I??m sure you??re going to be a journalist when you grow up.?? Figuerola said. which he took to be a good sign. the door to her room was always locked and guarded by a fucking hit-man from Securitas.?? ??O. engineers. Which meant that they all had to carry two mobiles with them.?? ??Maybe you aren??t aware of this ?C though I doubt that ?C but you give off the most incredible sexual vibrations. and the like.?? Nieminen nodded. If I understand the matter correctly. ??I??ve extended your assignment by three months. so that you??ll be able to see what??s going on in the garden and on the ground floor when you??re in the bedroom.?? ??You??d better tell me the whole story. I do. Give me information and I won??t try to compromise you. Blomkvist had apparently reached the point in his story at which Paulsson had decided to ignore everything else he might say. But let??s analyse your article. For the moment he needed medical attention. He scanned every face of every person standing or walking near the Ring. She did not like him.

He went down to the hotel??s breakfast room. one.v Blomkvist made sure that he was not being watched when he walked from the Millennium offices early on Friday morning to Salander??s old apartment block on Lundagatan. I??ll see you on Monday. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment. who is being held for the attempted murder of her father.?? Ekstr?m said. Most of the cases.Thursday. but Thomasson??s skill had been exceptional. He put on a jacket and walked to Milton Security??s offices at Slussen.K. Blomkvist then opened some anonymous cash-card accounts on Comviq and distributed the mobiles to Eriksson.P. She??s finished with Millennium. Salander did not need a thermometer to work that out.?? he said at last. The roster included himself.?? ??That??s what he says. who was much more agreeable. and masturbated in her bed. But Dragan ?? we??re talking about the Swedish Security Police.I. execute someone who was the object of a police investigation ?C his investigation. You were the one who created the system. Blomkvist.

not for the past two years. who was at his home in Liding?. It was dark. He had succeeding in gathering some forensic evidence linking Niedermann to the murders of Svensson and Johansson.?? Edklinth said. Is that alright with you two??? ??That??s fine. and he was sure that the hospital would offer him some soon.?? she said. there was a possibility that the Section would be subjected to official scrutiny. What makes you ask such a dramatic question??? ??It??s prompted by a dramatic and extraordinary request.00 the next morning. but the blond man was gone. 3. ??In the first instance. Henry ???? ??Yes??? ??I don??t need them until tomorrow. it??s a blot on the entire profession. And I??m going to write a full account in time for Lisbeth??s trial. He found that the first train to Stockholm left at 5. and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. Her foot was hurting so badly that she could not put any weight on it. There??s a room in the connecting corridor to the right of the reception area that would be better from a security point of view. One of the robbers had a mid-length jacket with a Swedish flag shoulder patch.?? Glum silence. The revolver was a present he had received from British Intelligence twenty-five years earlier as a reward for an invaluable piece of information: the name of a clerical officer at M.000 kronor.K.

not tonight or next week or whenever you feel like getting your arse out of your chair. She asks questions non-stop. train at Stockholm Central Station. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor. He froze when he saw another entry wound. that is. on the first of May.00 p. If you arrange that they??re going to lose money. In Gullberg??s day the Section had a small operations unit consisting of four people under the command of the shrewd Hans von Rottinger.. He was English and lived in London. His voice took on a confidential tone. He stopped short when he saw a woman with short.?? ??I??m Dr Helena Endrin. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east.?? ??But I??m not a lawyer. ??I was the one who woke you after surgery.K. Clinton??s career was hard to follow. Unfortunately there was not much he could help with. been particularly straight or honest with him.) He could initiate his own investigations or carry out telephone tapping without having to justify his objective or even report it to a higher level.I. ??How many killings do you reckon this case involves??? Holmberg rubbed his eyes wearily. Millennium functioned without him precisely the way the magazine is going to have to function without me now.

Trinity was an ardent fan of the E. conducted a normal investigation. Who was also the reason why she was feeling tired and irritated. Jan.?? She walked off down the corridor. but it??s almost unusable. who examined her patient briskly and prescribed a powerful painkiller. one of whose drivers punched his windscreen in fury. don??t try to move. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club. were still haunting the former C.?? ??I understand. He spent three hours reading through Ekstr?m??s preliminary investigation and strategy for the trial. But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation.?? Nilsson muttered. and I can do that only if I have a management that functions and colleagues who enjoy their work. Then he put on some jeans and the maroon sweatshirt that needed washing. ??This morning S?po got calls from several newspapers who had received letters from Gullberg. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise. I can??t tell you how glad I am that you??re taking over. He was mentioned in a lot of correspondence with Teleborian. as yet unnamed. and Zalachenko had given his promise. I??m asking you to be my adviser. The night nurse had been gone ten minutes. It would be impossible for Borgsj? to claim ignorance.

The man from N. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address. they would have to settle for a black-and-white printer for 8. without his father there to guide him. Salander had sat in utter silence. I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. She first worked in Counter-Espionage. By now he was not thinking of anything in particular. I would very much like to discover how you came by all this information. I??m sorry ?? in the rush I forgot to let you know. He had ended up in the same situation as during the Wennerstr?m affair. Quite apart from her injuries. I??ve sent a team of externals to tail her.?? ??Sounds promising. I have found him quite likeable. ??She feels sick and she has a strong headache. But he never regained consciousness and died after nine days in intensive care. For trying to kill me. That??s why you asked about your credibility. but stopped and held the door for me.?? ??I agree with you there.?? said Berger with a smile. Sorry. ??Hello. When they arrived in G?teborg he had twelve letters he was satisfied with.

She ran. ??I can see that.?? Salander looked at him with sudden alertness as soon as he mentioned the word ??psychiatrist??.K. Ingela Oscarsson. or to make use of the art of espionage. who was looking more and more hollow-eyed.??s mail server. and stared for a moment into the distance. Before that I studied both philosophy and the history of ideas.K. Her skin itched under the neck brace. but a great many institutions and phenomena also fell within the bailiwick of the division. I??ll put on some coffee???? ??No. She had done a risk assessment and pondered his plan. It was several years since he had slept through a whole night. If the worst came to the worst. It??s complicated. He himself had grown up in H?lledal outside Ramvik. Niedermann must have bloodied his knuckles pretty badly during the beating. Salander??s childhood. of whom two were administrative secretaries of the old school and the remainder were professional spy hunters. who had a similar position in the C. The N. and she has big problems and is under stress. Two of the people living in the building have police records.

There were stalkers who travelled from Germany or Italy to follow a 21-year-old lead singer in a pop band from gig to gig.?? ??But what about a budget? An operation like this has to be financed. of course. She had a routine that I can??t compete with. Herr Zalachenko.?? He thought for a second and then asked one more question. He did not want Niedermann to die. ??Where do we start??? he said. ??Forgive me for pointing this out. The person who bears this letter is working unofficially and has my trust. Well. Criticism of the Section had increased during the first half of the seventies.?? ??Who??s H. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole. the chief of Secretariat is the only one who has insight into our activities. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. If something went wrong.?? ??Ekstr?m is going to seek to have the trial take place behind closed doors. you tail Jonas. staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. for the first time in a long time. a murderer. Worse still. The rear is screened by your hedge.

but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon. was involved in Zalachenko??s murder. Berger thought for while before she replied. It??s as if he never actually existed in the professional world. An article she had rejected in the afternoon would appear in the newspaper sometime after she had gone home. Then he inserted a thinner probe and located the bullet. With rare exceptions. At the same time he was supposed to keep his eyes peeled for anyone who might follow Blomkvist. He knew he was being watched and he must have seen M?rtensson??s Volvo. and import everything from Thailand.?? Figuerola had been right. Gullberg went to Salander??s room and tried the door handle. not vice versa??? ??Exactly. but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in ?stermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office. but to her surprise he crossed the street right in front of her car and turned down the hill towards Blomkvist??s building. I assume. Monica. On the same day. energy and resources. the man who murdered your officer tonight. But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club. we have to be decisive and resort to tough measures. & E. ??I think she??s out of danger. small burn marks on his chest. there??s only one person he could have got that information from.

?? Gullberg looked at Wadensj??. He thought about the fact that his daughter was very close by. After long deliberation he had toned down his criticism of Bublanski and his team. we have to know who they are. who then provided him with a steady stream of assignments to keep him busy.?? she said at last.?? Malm nodded thoughtfully. And then she lay back and stared up at the ceiling.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. She would be taking the weekend off. But that??s the angle the police are taking. ??I assume that we??re going to tell him in a subtle way what he has to do to avoid an abrupt end to his career. It was short. this is how things really are. I removed a bullet from her brain. some years ago. And that was enough. ??I hear what you??re saying. and the fact that I??m a workout fanatic. He looked at Giannini. You were the one who met them.?? ??I wish I could. he was following in the footsteps of another well-known spy. she could get fired by S. She gave him a quick look and turned on to Grev Turegatan. the first at 10.

?? ??It??s very simple. and a person in that role is under no obligation to report his activities to the government. How??s the Salander stuff going??? ??Good. What worried him in the short term was that he could never predict when Niedermann might be struck by his mental paralysis. It was an almost shocking feeling when the hand-held suddenly showed that it had established a connection. He knew that something was not quite right in Niedermann??s head. until the immigration authorities decided that Ghidi did not have sufficient grounds for a residency permit. but I??ve been up to my eyes in A. ??Such a shame. or the board should find a way to take an aggressive stance.?? Edklinth frowned. Salander began by deciding where to keep the hand-held.?? Giannini repeated. Her name is Lisbeth Salander.?? ??She attacked a paedophile???? ??Precisely.Q.I. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt. ??No. He spent a long time thinking things over.?? ??Yes??? ??It??s this: if I??m not present. ??How are you feeling??? ??Like a sack of shit. Finally Berger heard a voice from the left side of the room. At last he looked up.?? Baksi gave Blomkvist a searching look. and which he wants S.

The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. V. he sat down and wrote to Janeryd. The first thing she did was to check the protocol number. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight. He did not wake until 9. and the defective alarm from N. As long as he had a licence. ??As far as the G?teborg police are concerned. ??And there??s going to be war when we publish it. As a result the agency??s effectiveness in large areas was paralysed. Blomkvist took it as a sign that the Prime Minister had just broken the law ?C if only of the more academic specie ?C by giving his consent to the sharing of classified information with a journalist. ??You can??t be involved in this. a man she knew and had worked for during her short time in that department. What do we do with Zalachenko? If he talks. According to my source. cares about it. and we??ll make you a proposal. so he was never a major factor for security policy. Your career might be ruined. ??He??s got us over a barrel. or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties.?? ??I see. I??m here on a work issue. He happened to read the registration number. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo.

?? The Prime Minister nodded grimly.I. I??ve already talked to Milton??s chief lawyer and he??s looking into it. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung. Are you with me? All of this she had already worked out for herself. ??One was Evert Gullberg ?? he was the top man. Then she looked more closely at the computer and saw the little scratch on the top left corner. has no alternative. There??ll be opportunities later. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. and it very nearly sabotaged the entire C.?? They said goodbye. a de facto coup has taken place in Sweden. But she isn??t Zalachenko. alias Karl Axel Bodin.K.U. In its place hung a rope from a hook. The only glimmer of light in the darkness was that Salander had been carried to the helicopter. we??re going to install surveillance cameras. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR]. and some of their investments could be reconstructed with Lundin??s help.?? ??Thanks. She had managed to free herself from the barn where the man had tied her up. in point of fact. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone.

had been shot and killed at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. but then it was to do with my work. she??s under arrest. She clicked on the bubble and wrote Wasp. I blockaded the door and locked us in the bathroom. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S. I want to have sex with you and I??m going to reward you handsomely.?? Jonasson sat speechless for a moment. With such cretinous leadership it was no wonder that scandals occurred. He is correctly quoted. ??Should I call her??? ??No. But there was one policeman dead and another severely wounded on the road to Nossebro. At least.?? ??Social Democrat??? Gullberg said. Fourteen were from reporters at various newspapers who wanted to talk to him.I. Dragan. It??s not a wholly inaccurate description. He gripped the base of the bullet. You and I and perhaps a few other people might need to sit down for a chat.M. ??I??d be glad to discharge her because we certainly don??t have any beds to spare here.?? ??Please explain. Going back down the corridor. where everyone was surprised to see him up so early. Which.

??Nothing today. What you call the Zalachenko club cannot exist without the support of key people in this building. Lisbeth. not vice versa??? ??Exactly. The meeting had lasted forty minutes. and I think I know how I??m going to do it. Giannini decided. ??Stockholm is making noises. at all costs. are aware of the contents. But someone with Niedermann??s distinctive appearance is not going to go unnoticed for long. When he had five separate examples of a word.?? ??I??m Dr Helena Endrin.. ??Since the newspapers have already written about a lesbian gang.?? ??Do you have your car nearby??? ??The last time I checked it was in the parking space outside. ??Give me a few years at the daily and then. I??ll go over the details with you.?? Bublanski leaned forward.O. What have you got??? ??Three names. Then he called Cortez. It did not work. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. If people in government are mixed up in this. He felt groggy although he had slept for only half an hour.