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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,RiversideEditorial Supervision: Marie Stareck

  THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR

  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 Outlawsof the Air,' 'Valdar the Oft-Born,''Briton or Boer?' Etc., Etc.

  Illustrated by Alfred Pearse

  _'To that Son of the Sacred Racewho for Honour and Faith andLove shall take the hand of apure virgin of his own holy bloodand with her pass fearless throughthe Gate of Death into the shadowswhich lie beyond shall be given theglory of casting out the Oppressorand raising the Rainbow Banneronce more above the Golden Throneof the Incas. On that Throne heshall sit and wield power and meteout justice and mercy to the Childrenof the Sun when the gloomthat is falling upon the Land ofthe Four Regions shall have passedaway in the dawn of a brighterage.'_

  --THE PROPHECY CONTAINEDIN THE ANCIENT LEGENDOF VILCAROYA-INCA ANDGOLDEN STAR, HIS SISTER-BRIDE.

  London: F. V. White & Co....14 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. 1897

  CONTENTS

  PROLOGUE

  PAGE

  HIS HIGHNESS THE MUMMY 1

  A PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT 16

  CHAPTER I

  BACK THROUGH THE SHADOWS 32

  CHAPTER II

  BROTHERS OF THE BLOOD 47

  CHAPTER III

  IN THE HALL OF GOLD 66

  CHAPTER IV

  THE SISTER STARS 86

  CHAPTER V

  HOW DJAMA DID HIS WORK 105

  CHAPTER VI

  THE WAKING OF GOLDEN STAR 124

  CHAPTER VII

  IN THE THRONE-ROOM OF YUPANQUI 145

  CHAPTER VIII

  HOW THE SOUL OF GOLDEN STAR CAME BACK 168

  CHAPTER IX

  THE TREACHERY OF DJAMA 188

  CHAPTER X

  ON THE RODADERO 209

  CHAPTER XI

  HOW WE TOOK THE CITY OF THE SUN 230

  CHAPTER XII

  QUEEN AND CROWN 250

  CHAPTER XIII

  HOW DJAMA PAID HIS DEBT 262

  CHAPTER XIV

  THE RE-KINDLING OF THE SACRED FIRE 271