Trial by water

How it begins

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.