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_aWright, Sewell Peaslee, _d1897-1970 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aTrial by water |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 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.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSpouses -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aCanoes and canoeing -- Fiction | ||
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_aHumphrey, Walter Beach, _d1892-1966 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929. | |
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