She had to wait for almost half an hour before an old woman with a cane
approached from the direction of Djurgården. The woman stopped and studied
Salander with suspicion. Salander gave her a friendly smile in return. The lady with
the cane returned her greeting and looked as though she were trying to remember
when she had last seen the young woman. Salander turned her back and took a
few steps away from the door, as though she were impatiently waiting for
someone, pacing back and forth. When she turned, the lady had reached the door
and was slowly putting in a number on the code lock. Salander had no difficulty
seeing that the combination was 1260.
She waited five minutes more before she went to the door. She punched in the
code and the lock clicked. She peered into the stairwell. There was a security
camera which she glanced at and ignored; it was a model that Milton Security
carried and was activated only if an alarm for a break-in or an attack was sounded
on the property. Farther in, to the left of an antique lift cage, there was a door with
another code lock; she tried 1260 and it worked for the entrance to the cellar level
and rubbish room. Sloppy, very sloppy. She spent three minutes investigating the
cellar level, where she located an unlocked laundry room and a recycling room.
Then she used a set of picklocks that she had “borrowed” from Milton’s locksmith
to open a locked door to what seemed to be a meeting room for the condominium
association. At the back of the cellar was a hobby room. Finally she found what she
was looking for: the building’s small electrical room. She examined the meters, fuse
boxes, and junction boxes and then took out a Canon digital camera the size of a
cigarette packet. She took three pictures.
On the way out she cast her eye down the list of residents by the lift and read the
name for the apartment on the top floor. Wennerström.
Then she left the building and walked rapidly to the National Museum, where she
went into the cafeteria to have some coffee and warm up. After about half an hour
she made her way back to Söder and went up to her apartment.
There was an answer from [email protected] When she decoded it
in PGP it read: 20.
CHAPTER 6
Thursday, December 26