What can a sinking cargo ship off Fire Island possibly have to do with the first attempt on a sitting President of the United States? Why does an insane house painter think the government owes him money, lots of money? The recent widow of Robert Baxter and the grieving mother of their only child, Margaret Elizabeth Baxter, aka, Maggie, cannot let go of what happened to her husband and daughter off the shores of Fire Island. She moved back in with her father, Judge James Wellington Brace of Rhode Island. In a twist of fate, it was suggested that Judge Brace may have somehow been involved in the sinking of that cargo ship. Follow the money was what they always said. The money centered around the National Bank, which then-President Andrew Jackson was against, and which if done away with would cost many like Judge Brace losses mounting into the millions. Robert Baxter had been to England to secure that country’s backing of President Jackson’s view. The answer to the question that Andrew Jackson asked emissaries from both the kings of England and France was being carried by Robert Baxter and was lost when the ship foundered and sank off Fire Island. In a nunnery miles from Washington, an old woman received a vision of her drowned granddaughter. Almost twenty years previously, Judge Brace had his wife committed to this nunnery. Now knowing what the ghost of her granddaughter had told her, Judge’s Brace’s wife, Lady Margaret, wanted out. After days of not communicating with her father, Judge Brace told his daughter, Priscilla Brace Baxter, that articles from the sunken ship were washing up on Fire Island. Did she want to go with him and see? It was a trick, but one she accepted. On the way there, overhearing the judge and an old law school buddy from Yale talking, Priscilla Brace Baxter discovered that her father may have had something to do with both her husband’s and daughter’s demise. At the seashore on