02349cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000390011324500190015226400510017130000470022233600260026933700260029533800360032149000570035750000310041450801090044552010610055453400750161565300180169065300510170865300230175965300350178270000390181783000570185685600430191399900190195676668UtSlPG20260610134756.0mcr n260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aWright, Sewell Peaslee,d1897-197010aTrial by water 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929.  aRelease date is 2025-08-10  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Canada Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929  aShort stories  aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction  aSpouses -- Fiction  aCanoes and canoeing -- Fiction1 aHumphrey, Walter Beach,d1892-1966 0aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668  c117393d117393