An Illusion in Red and White by Stephen Crane

Of all the stories heard and told by the newspaper men on the Cuban blockade, this murder was the one that most struck our narrator.  A man kills his wife in full sight of his four children, and yet they all testify that it was someone else, that the murderer looked quite different from their father.  Speculation about exactly how the man managed to convince his children of his innocence forms the basis of our story.

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