The Romance of Golden Star

The Romance of Golden Star ...,
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THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR ...
by
GEORGE [CHETWYND] GRIFFITH[-JONES]

Reprint Edition 1978 by Arno Press Inc. Reprinted from a copy in The
Library of the University of California, Riverside Editorial Supervision:
Marie Stareck

THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR

[Illustration: Hail, Son of the Sun!
Page 78.
THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR.
Frontispiece.]

THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR ...

by
GEORGE GRIFFITH
Author of 'The Angel of the Revolution,' 'Olga Romanoff,' 'The
Outlaws of the Air,' 'Valdar the Oft-Born,' 'Briton or Boer?' Etc., Etc.
Illustrated by Alfred Pearse

'To that Son of the Sacred Race who for Honour and Faith and Love
shall take the hand of a pure virgin of his own holy blood and with her
pass fearless through the Gate of Death into the shadows which lie
beyond shall be given the glory of casting out the Oppressor and
raising the Rainbow Banner once more above the Golden Throne of the
Incas. On that Throne he shall sit and wield power and mete out justice
and mercy to the Children of the Sun when the gloom that is falling
upon the Land of the Four Regions shall have passed away in the dawn
of a brighter age.'
--THE PROPHECY CONTAINED IN THE ANCIENT LEGEND OF
VILCAROYA-INCA AND GOLDEN STAR, HIS SISTER-BRIDE.
London: F. V. White & Co.... 14 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. 1897

CONTENTS
PROLOGUE - HIS HIGHNESS THE MUMMY
A PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT
I BACK THROUGH THE SHADOWS
II BROTHERS OF THE BLOOD
III IN THE HALL OF GOLD

IV THE SISTER STARS
V HOW DJAMA DID HIS WORK
VI THE WAKING OF GOLDEN STAR
VII IN THE THRONE-ROOM OF YUPANQUI
VIII HOW THE SOUL OF GOLDEN STAR CAME BACK
IX THE TREACHERY OF DJAMA
X ON THE RODADERO
XI HOW WE TOOK THE CITY OF THE SUN
XII QUEEN AND CROWN
XIII HOW DJAMA PAID HIS DEBT
XIV THE RE-KINDLING OF THE SACRED FIRE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ALFRED PEARSE
'HAIL, SON OF THE SUN!' Frontispiece
'AM I ONLY DREAMING THAT THE DEATH-SLEEP IS OVER?'
THE DAGGER-POINT DROPPED TILL IT WAS WITHIN AN
INCH OF GOLDEN STAR'S BREAST
THEY THRUST HIM IN WITH HIS ARMS STILL BOUND
IT HAD SMITTEN HIM TO THE HEART
NOW THE MOMENT FOR THE GIVING OF THE SIGN HAD
COME

The Romance of Golden Star

PROLOGUE
I
HIS HIGHNESS THE MUMMY
'Ah, what a thing it would be for us if his Inca Highness were really
only asleep, as he looks to be! Just think what he could tell us--how
easily he could re-create that lost wonderland of his for us, what riddles
he could answer, what lies he could contradict. And then think of all
the lost treasures that he could show us the way to. Upon my word, if
Mephistopheles were to walk into this room just now, I think I should
be tempted to make a bargain with him. Do you know, Djama, I believe
I would give half the remainder of my own life, whatever that may be,
to learn the secrets that were once locked up in that withered,
desiccated brain of his.'
The speaker was one of two men who were standing in a large room,
half-study, half-museum, in a big, old-fashioned house in Maida Vale.
Wherever the science of archæology was studied, Professor Martin
Lamson was known as the highest living authority on the subject of the
antiquities of South America. He had just returned from a year's
relic-hunting in Peru and Bolivia, and was enjoying the luxury of
unpacking his treasures with the almost boyish delight which, under
such circumstances, comes only to the true enthusiast. His companion
was a somewhat slenderly-built man, of medium height, whose clear,
olive skin, straight, black hair, and deep blue-black eyes betrayed a