Trial by water by Sewell Peaslee Wright
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"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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| Author | Wright, Sewell Peaslee, 1897-1970 |
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| Illustrator | Humphrey, Walter Beach, 1892-1966 |
| Title | Trial by water |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929. |
| Series Title | Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929. |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Canada Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdpcanada.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Spouses -- Fiction |
| Subject | Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76668 |
| Release Date | Aug 10, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 20881 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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