Wright, Sewell Peaslee 1897-1970 creator Humphrey, Walter Beach 1892-1966 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Release date is 2025-08-10 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Canada Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net Originally published: New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 Short stories Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Spouses -- Fiction Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction PS New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134756.0 76668