E-text prepared by Wilelmina Maillière and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/c/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 20173-h.htm or 20173-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/1/7/20173/20173-h/20173-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/1/7/20173/20173-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Some punctuation has been changed to meet contemporary standards. Printer's errors: see the list of corrections at the end of the text. 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 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