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Trial by water

Sewell Peaslee Wright · 1930

A 1930 short story by Sewell Peaslee Wright, first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly. A Canadian bush guide, suspecting his wife loves a charismatic guest, capsizes their canoe in dangerous rapids to test where her loyalties lie.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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