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Title: The Romance of Golden Star
Author: George Griffith
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The Romance of Golden Star
by

George Griffith
'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.


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