people often jump to conclusions that aren't true. They ignore obvious details when the information is not appealing to them. How far are these statements applicable in the story, Hearts and Hands?
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In the story Hearts and Hands by O Henry, among the passengers in a train were a pair of men linked by a handcuff. One of them was apparently the Marshal and the other a criminal. A lady passenger apparently knows one of them called Easton. She strikes a conversation with him. Like almost all the other passengers, she thinks he is a Marshal. The statements made by the other linked man also give no way to doubt this statement. What they failed to realize was that the person whom they thought was the Marshal had linked his right hand to the other’s left hand. This is very rarely the case when a Marshal links his prisoner to himself. Since the passengers were not interested in the details given by the two men, they did not notice the way the handcuff linked the two men.