TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Sewell Peaslee
AU  - Humphrey,Walter Beach
TI  - Trial by water
T2  - Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
KW  - Spouses -- Fiction
KW  - Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668
ER  -