02349cam a22003733u 4500 76668 UtSlPG 20260610134756.0 m cr n 260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Wright, Sewell Peaslee, 1897-1970 Trial by water Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929. Release date is 2025-08-10 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Canada Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net "Trial by water by Sewell Peaslee Wright" is a pulp adventure short story written in the late 1920s. The tale uses a hazardous river passage as a crucible to test love and loyalty, focusing on jealousy, courage, and betrayal. Jean Baptiste Chabrier, a quiet northern bushman, guides a canoe through the Assin-nebah rapids with his wife, Charlotte, and their guest, Les Walters, a charming sawyer who has won Charlotte’s attention. Sensing her wavering heart, Jean deliberately wrecks the canoe at the safer end of the rapids to force a revealing crisis. In the churning water Charlotte turns to Les, who panics, strikes her away, and scrambles for shore, leaving her to drown. Jean, having seen enough—especially the cut on her cheek from Les’s ring—rescues her and brings her to land. The “trial by water” leaves a scar as a lasting reminder and delivers its verdict: Les’s cowardice is exposed, Charlotte’s misplaced faith is corrected, and Jean’s stern test decides the triangle’s fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 Short stories Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Spouses -- Fiction Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction Humphrey, Walter Beach, 1892-1966 Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668 117393 117393