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                          MARK GILDERSLEEVE.

                               A Novel.

                         BY JOHN S. SAUZADE.


    NEW YORK:
    _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers._
    LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.
    M.DCCC.LXXIII.

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
    JOHN S. SAUZADE,
    In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

    Stereotyped at the
    WOMEN'S PRINTING HOUSE,
    56, 58 and 60 Park Street,
    New York.




MARK GILDERSLEEVE.




I.


Although of much importance as a manufacturing place, Belton is noted
chiefly for the beautiful water-fall to which the town, in fact, owes
its existence.

Here the Passaic, interrupted in its placid flow by a rocky barrier,
takes an abrupt turn, and plunges in a narrow sheet of foam adown a deep
chasm, formed in one of Nature's throes ages ago, and then with wild
swirls rushes angrily over a rocky bed, until spent and quiet it skirts
the town, and winds away appeased and pellucid--despite the murky drain
of dye-houses--through woodlands, fields, and pastures green. Ere
reaching the cataract, however, the river is tapped by a canal which
serves to feed the flumes that run the many mills of Belton; and
through this race-way the diverted waters speed on their busy errand