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This antiquarian book contains Jeffrey Farnol's fictional tale 'Black Bartlemy's' Treasure'. It is the story of Martin Conisby, a man who escapes slavery aboard the Spanish ship Esmeralda during a battle at sea. With revenge in his mind, he makes his way to England to find the man responsible for the death of his father and for his own enslavement. A masterful work of romance fiction, this text will appeal to lovers of swashbuckling literature, and it is a veritable must-have for fans of Farnol's work. The chapters of this book include: 'Of What Befell on Pembury Hill', 'How I Heard a Song in A Wood at Midnight', 'Tells How I Stole my Breakfast', 'Telleth How I Met one Adam Penfeather', 'How I Came to Conisby Shene', 'Of My Shameful Sufferings and How I Was Delivered Therefrom', etcetera. Jeffery Farnol (1878 - 1952) was a British writer famous for his romance novels and for founding the Regency romantic genre. This book is being republished now complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.