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Updated: April 30, 2025
It was hardly any wonder, then, that in time Harold found himself alone in the midst of one of the great treasure-places of the world. Only labour was needed to take from the earth riches beyond the dreams of avarice.
"If I had received the orders of the Effendina on the night when the Effendina dismissed Nahoum " Achmet said softly, and broke off. "A curse upon thine eyes that did not see thy duty!" Kaid replied gloomily. Then he turned to High. "My seal has been put upon Foorgat's doors? His treasure-places have been found? The courts have been commanded as to his estate, the banks "
'And you didn't find any traces of other treasure-places, I suppose, in the valley? said Djama, who had listened with the most perfect attention to the professor's story.
"If I had received the orders of the Effendina on the night when the Effendina dismissed Nahoum " Achmet said softly, and broke off. "A curse upon thine eyes that did not see thy duty!" Kaid replied gloomily. Then he turned to High. "My seal has been put upon Foorgat's doors? His treasure-places have been found? The courts have been commanded as to his estate, the banks "
The alarm spread, and the day of evil being upon them their sun-gods giving no sign of crushing the profane intruders the priests looked upon it as a sign of wrath and punishment; and sooner than their treasure should fall into the hands of the fierce, remorseless conquerors, eagerly stripped their temples themselves, and in remote hiding-places, with many a mysterious rite, re-committed the gold to its parent earth, binding all who beheld by the most fearful bonds never to reveal the treasure-places to the conquerors, but to wait for the great day when the ancient glory of Peru should be revived, when the Incas should reign once more, and their religion flourish, ere the sacred treasures were disinterred.
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