Fecchi and Gedeone and Rumpus

[Olaf Solstrand]

Quoting "Jonathan H. Gray" <jongraywb at hotmail.com>:
> Waitasec - I knew about Gedeone (Gideon McDuck?) for a while having heard of
> him once or twice. BUT I was always under the impression that William Van 
> Horn made Rumpus Scrooge's COUSIN and NOT brother. Kind of like Donald is to
> Gladstone as Scrooge is to Rumpus so to speak....
> 
> Not to mention that Rumpus' last name is McFowl and not McDuck which would 
> be the case if they were brothers. ;)
> 
> Where is teh Van Horn family tree anyway...

In that story so many has mentioned as the last Rumpus story from Gladstone, a 
secret is revealed... It turns outh they're not cousins after all. And in the 
following story, which I believe is not yet published in the United States of 
America, Rumpus comes to the Money Bin with a sneaky lawyor trying to get half 
of the Money Bin - and a letter explaining everything:


Scr: "Stop there! Who says Rumpus is my brother?" 
law: "Do you deny it?" 
Scr: "Well... uhm... I mean..." 
Rum: "No need to stutter for me. I know everything!" 
Scr: "But..." 
Rum: "Remember nice old auntie Vera? During a recent stay there I found this." 
Scr: "A letter?" 
law: "Correct! My client found it in an old family album." 
Rum: "From mum to aunt Vera." 
Scr: "I hope you'll tell me what's in the letter?" 
Rum: "It's stuffed with family history! In the lette, mother mentions the short 
marriage with Fergus McDuck." 
Don: "Fergus was your father, unca Scrooge!" 
Scr: "I know. Go on!" 
Rum: "She left old Fergus and brought their dear son - me - to never return. 
Unfortunately mother never told me that I was one of the awful McDucks, as she 
called them." 
Scr: "Oh yeah!" 
Rum: "Or that I had a half-brother, 'a terrible little vulture named Scrooge', 
the letter says." 
Scr: "And this day began so promising!" 
Don: "Why has he all the time said he was the cousin, then - if unca Scrooge 
and his family was so nasty?" 
Scr: "Yeah! Why?" 
Jub: "Mum says, and I quote: 'But woe, Vera, as I was tied to the McDuck-
family, we chose to call the children cousins to not reveal the secret.'" 
. 


In European stories, they have been half-brothers for years already - though, 
only in Van Horn-stories.




Olaf the Blue