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He obtained to his ft, walked over to her and confirmed her what he had stumbled on. ‘At first i assumed it used to be rat droppings,’ he stated, maintaining up a bit brown lump among his hands. ‘What is it? ’ Eva Lind requested. ‘It’s a gauze,’ Erlendur acknowledged. ‘A gauze? ’ ‘Yes, containing chewing tobacco that you simply placed below your lip. somebody has thrown away or spat out his chewing tobacco the following during this hall. ’ ‘But who? Who might have been during this hall? ’ Erlendur checked out Eva Lind. ‘Someone who’s an even bigger tart than I am,’ he acknowledged. CHRISTMAS EVE 30 HE figured out that Ösp was once engaged on the ground above his room, and he went up the steps after having espresso and toast from the breakfast buffet. He contacted Sigurdur Óli approximately a few details he wanted him to assemble and phoned Elínborg to determine even if she had remembered to question the girl Stefanía claimed to have met on the lodge while she was once captured at the safeguard digicam. Elínborg had long gone out and didn't resolution her cellular. Erlendur had lain unsleeping in mattress until eventually virtually morning, in pitch darkness. while he eventually obtained up he seemed out of the resort window. it'd be a white Christmas this yr. The snow was once surroundings in heavily. He might see it within the mild from the lamp posts. Thick snow fell into the sunshine they shed and shaped one of those backdrop for Christmas Eve. Eva Lind had stated so long to him within the basement hall. She used to be going to satisfy him at domestic that night. They have been going to boil a few smoked lamb and while he awakened he all started brooding about what to provide her for Christmas. He had given her small offers after she started spending Christmas with him and he or she had given him socks, which she admitted she had stolen, and as soon as a couple of gloves, which she stated she had got and he quickly misplaced. She by no means requested approximately them. might be the point of his daughter’s personality that he cherished so much was once that she by no means requested approximately whatever until it mattered. Sigurdur Óli known as him with the knowledge. It wasn’t a lot, yet sufficient to head on. Erlendur didn’t understand precisely what he was once trying to find, yet notion his speculation was once worthy placing to the try. He watched her engaged on her lodge flooring as sooner than, until eventually she spotted him. She didn't convey any specific shock at seeing him. ‘Are you up? ’ she stated, as though he used to be the laziest visitor on the lodge. ‘It took me a long time to get to sleep,’ he acknowledged. ‘Actually i used to be puzzling over you all evening. ’ ‘Me? ’ Ösp acknowledged, placing a heap of towels right into a laundry basket. ‘Nothing soiled, i'm hoping. I’ve had sufficient of soiled previous males at this inn. ’ ‘No,’ Erlendur acknowledged. ‘Nothing soiled. ’ ‘Fatso requested me if I’d been grassing to you, telling you shit. And the chef shouted at me like i used to be stealing from his buffet. They knew we’d been conversing. ’ ‘Everyone is aware kind of every thing approximately every body else at this hotel,’ Erlendur stated. ‘But they by no means particularly say something approximately someone. Such individuals are very tricky to accommodate. such as you, for instance. ’ ‘Me? ’ Ösp went into the room she was once cleansing and Erlendur her inside of as he had performed ahead of.