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THE BRIDE OF THE SUN
and, after the Marquis had asked his way several times, finally reached a square teeming with Indians.
On one side of this square still stood ancient palace walls. There had been the last home of the last Inca King. There he had lived in splendor, and there he died a martyr. There had been the home of Atahualpa, and there had the post-office clerk directed Don Christobal de la Torre!