Note: First published in the magazine Once a Week, June 23, 1860. Signed "W.C.," identified as William Cooper by The Curran Index. Not speculative: the woman believes that she speaks to the spirit of her son and that she is destined to bring God's judgment on the murderous captain, but the story depicts her as deranged. This story sometimes appears in lists of speculative fiction because Ashley and Contento indexed the entire contents of Weird Tales: Irish in The Supernatural Index without indicating which of its stories, such as this one, did not actually have speculative elements.

Synopsis: The narrator sees a crazed woman wandering by the seashore, cursing the captain of a certain ship every time it comes into sight, and a local witness tells him the terrible and murderous events that led to her madness.