When he spoke at all he was so disagreeable that presently the rest refrained from speaking to him any more than they could help. At the first opportunity to quench their thirst, which by the time they had driven for an hour had become almost unbearable, the entire party indulged freely, Farwell drinking more deeply than the rest. When they arrived at the fashionable hotel a hundred miles up the coast, which was their rendezvous, he drank again and often during the evening. Also, he annexed a young woman of his acquaintance, Stephanie Varrell by name, whose startling artificial beauty was only rivaled by her daring conduct, and the whole party had a very merry time indeed. But during it all, and while he paid for most of it and was a participant in all their hilarity, he was morosely silent, glowering at them and answering only when he had to do so, with caustic sentences that might have been written with a pen dipped in vitriol. Now Boothby Farwell was not a man who easily gave up. He had been heard to boast that he always got whatever he really went after.
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