Sewell Peaslee Wright
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Trial by Water
By SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT
A son of the voyageurs tests the hearts of his young wife and of his debonair friend.
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 30 1929. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Jean Baptiste Chabrier listened, with an odd gleam in his dark, quiet eyes, to the roaring of the rapids. A dangerous place, those rapids! Who knew better than Jean Baptiste, who for three years had made his home within the sound of Assin-nebah's voice? Assin-nebah--that was as the Crees said it; "rocky water" it meant in the English.
Chabrier's mild and thoughtful gaze rested upon the figure of the girl seated in the middle of the canoe. He could not see her face, for she was looking ahead, just as he was. There had been a time when she would have faced Jean Baptiste, her husband; but now she looked toward the man in the bow--big, blond, gay Les Walters, the sawyer.
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