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Updated: June 3, 2025
'You must be mad, Laurens! said Joyful Star, before her brother could reply. 'Surely this dreadful work of yours has turned your brain. Vilcaroya, what does all this mean? Is Golden Star dead or alive? Ah, how beautiful she is now! No, surely she cannot be dead!
Then, keeping his voice as steady as he could, the professor told him the story of his resuscitation, addressing him by his own name and ending by asking him if he remembered when he and Golden Star had devoted themselves to die together, as the tradition said they had done. 'Yes, I remember! said Vilcaroya, with brightening eyes and faintly flushing cheeks. 'How could I forget it?
In the midst of one of them I know not what it was, save that no human words could paint the horror of it I woke up with a cold, damp hand upon my shoulder, and heard Djama's voice, hoarse and trembling, saying to me, 'Get up and dress, Vilcaroya; I have something for you to see and to hear. Make haste, for there is not much time to be lost.
You, Señor Prada, give your sword to this caballero here, who is the Inca Vilcaroya and lawful ruler of this country. The Governor turned and stared at me, dumb with amazement at these strange words, and all the others stared too, for, like him, they had no doubt heard the legend of my strange fate.
She knows perfectly well that Vilcaroya has come at a single step, as it were, from his age into ours, and so must have brought all the ideas and beliefs of his time and his people with him.
You will not treat him more harshly for it, Vilcaroya, will you, for you know, after all, he is I mean he was my brother, and I loved him very much once? 'Yes, he is mad, I said; 'and yet the lips of madness may speak truth, for what am I but what he said?
Then he rose from his half-stooping posture over the bed, and came to where I stood at the foot, and, with his hand outstretched and a smile on his lips, said, 'You have heard what I have just said, Vilcaroya. You have withdrawn your conditions; now I will take back mine. It is no use for you and me to be enemies. We have had our fight, and I confess myself beaten.
I saw a smile that was not pleasant to look upon pass swiftly over Djama's mouth, but he kept silence, and the professor said to me, 'Are you really in earnest, Vilcaroya? You know, according to our bargain, we have no claim on you until our part of the work is done. None of us have any desire to learn your secrets.
But when at last she could no longer doubt the story of her brother's crime and treachery, she came to me and laid her hand upon my arm, and looked up at me with tearful eyes and said, 'But you will not kill him, Vilcaroya, for my sake, will you? He is my brother, you know, after all, though he has made me almost ashamed to say so.
Tell me how long we have slept, my Vilcaroya. It seems long to me, and I have had strange, dim dreams, and thought I was not one, but two, and that one of myselves was your sister and the other was your Coya and queen. It was strange, was it not, to dream like that?
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