The Flaming Omen (1917)

Coya, a native Peruvian girl, is deserted by her lover Watkins, a brutal English colonist who returns to his home country after plundering a gold fortune in Peru. Five years later, when Coya kills herself at the foot of the statue of the sun god Inti, her little boy Dorian is found by another, more benign colonist, Lord Haviland, who takes the child to England to raise as his own son. Grown to manhood, Dorian is troubled by visions of an Incan woman kneeling at the foot of an image. These visions interfere with his relationship with Violet, the daughter of Watkins, who had, upon his return to England, married a woman of aristocratic birth. When Dorian inherits his father's wealth and title, he revisits the land of his birth and meets a local girl named Bianca. The two are strongly attracted to each other, but Bianca is desired by the Inca chieftain Natcho. Furious at being repulsed, Natcho leads his tribesmen in an attack on the English visitors. In the ensuing battle, Violet and her father, who had followed Dorian to Peru, are mortally wounded. On his deathbed, Watkins confesses that he is Dorian's father. Thus freed of his mysterious attraction to his half-sister Violet, Dorian marries Blanca.