{"product_id":"book-1t4g","title":"Trial By Water","description":"\"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. ","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66850795487536,"sku":"BD1t4g","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1t4g-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779479545","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1t4g","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}