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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aWright, Sewell Peaslee,
_d1897-1970
245 1 0 _aTrial by water
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-10
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Canada Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
653 _aSpouses -- Fiction
653 _aCanoes and canoeing -- Fiction
700 1 _aHumphrey, Walter Beach,
_d1892-1966
830 0 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76668
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