After he had remained quiet for about a year, he actually had the effrontery to ask his mother-in-law for more capital.

But this time she was like a rock.

"Not a penny," said Frau Brohl, and kept her word.

Marker wept, and she let him weep; he talked of suicide, and she advised him to use a rope, as he did not understand the use of firearms.

He had run through half her money, and the other half she meant to defend like a lioness.