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You fell into that trap, and though I confess I thought that Gabrielle was the culprit, on Murie's behalf, I only lately found out that you and your accomplice Krail were in Greece endeavouring to profit by knowledge obtained from here, my private house."
Lady Murie's husband had, it appeared, left that morning for Edinburgh to attend a political committee. A little later Walter succeeded in getting Gabrielle alone again in a small, well-furnished room leading off the library a room in which she had passed many happy hours with him before he had gone abroad.
Somewhat the same method was evidently followed in the case of the supposed manatees, only after the pipe cavities had been excavated the block was shaped off in a manner best suited to serve the purpose of a handle. Without, however, attempting to institute farther comparisons, two views of a real manatee are here subjoined, which are fac-similes of Murie's admirable photo-lithograph in Trans.
At the end of the cloister young Gellatly found one of Lady Murie's guests, a girl named Violet Priest, with whom he had danced a good deal on the previous night, and at once attached himself to her, leaving Walter with the sweet-faced, slim-waisted object of his affections.
"Yes, I know Gabrielle," was Walter's reply, as there flashed across him the recollection of that passionate letter to which he had not replied. "Why?" "Is she also your friend?" "She certainly is." Hamilton was silent. He saw that he was treading dangerous ground. The legend of Glencardine was the same as that of the old Magyar stronghold of Hetzendorf. Gabrielle Heyburn was Murie's friend.
"I have no wish to be regarded as the prodigal daughter," was her proud response. "Not for Walter Murie's sake?" asked the crafty man. "I have seen him. I was at the club with him last night, and we had a chat about you. He loves you very dearly. Ah! you do not know how he is suffering." She was silent, and he recognised in an instant that his words had touched the sympathetic chord in her heart.
They are "usually larger in the male than in the female, and their development is checked by castration." Owen, 'Anatomy of Vertebrates, vol. iii. p. 632. See also Dr. Murie's observations on those glands in the 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1870, p. 340. Hence, there can be no doubt that they stand in close relation with the reproductive functions.
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