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Sarchedon

A Legend of the Great Queen

By G. J. Whyte-Melville

Author of "Roy's Wife," "Black but Comely," "Market Harborough," etc.

Illustrated by S. E. Waller

London
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
New York and Melbourne

TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
AUSTIN LAYARD, D.C.L.,
HER MAJESTY'S MINISTER AT MADRID,
THE
FOLLOWING ROMANCE IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
AS A TRIBUTE OF
ADMIRATION TO THE GREAT DISCOVERER,
WHOSE SKILL, COURAGE AND RESEARCH HAVE
EXCAVATED FROM THE DESERT SANDS
THE ARTS, ARMS, AND RECORDS OF A MIGHTY NATION;
WHOSE LEARNING AND PERSEVERANCE
HAVE RESTORED AN IMPORTANT LINK IN THE
WORLD'S HISTORY,
LONG SEVERED IN THE OBLIVION OF THE PAST.

Onslow Gardens,
June, 1871.

"THE STARTLED HORSEMAN DREW REIN."

CONTENTS

The Seven Stars.

"They watch him who wakes—They watch him who sleeps—him whospeaks—him who is silent—the guilty, the blameless: there is noneon earth who is not watched."—Bhuddhagosa Proverbs.