Secret relations

[Katie Sullivan]

Thanks, Olaf, for that conversation regarding Rumpus and his
letter!

Olaf also wrote:
> Some time ago, I and a couple of other Norwegians had a
> discussion on WHEN this 
> marriage could have found place (that is, IF we still play
> with the thought of 
> putting Don Rosa, William Van Horn and everybody else on the
> same time line). 
> Three possibilities were mentioned - A) before Fergus married
> Downy, 

My vote goes to this one.


> B) after 
> Downy's death, 

That wouldn't make sense, because Scrooge visits Scotland in
"The Billionaire of Dismal Downs," and there is no mention of
Fergus' remarriage.  There would be no reason to hide something
like that.  And Fergus then dies.  (Plus, I imagine Downy's
ghost would have a jealous tiff upon greeting him.  ;)


> or C) in a short period where Fergus and Downy
> were divorced,

They seemed happy enough to me, but then appearances can be
deceiving.  ;)

> We quickly decided to rule out option B, for two
> reasons - that 
> would make Rumpus terribly young, and it doesn't seem very
> likely that Rumpus' 
> mother would talk of Scrooge as a little vulture if he was
> thirty years old and 
> on the other side of the ocean.

Also true!

> Also, option A would mean that
> Rumpus is older 
> than Scrooge, which I frankly don't really believe in.

That's what I assumed after reading "Secrets."  He does have a
Rip-van-winkle-style beard...

Rich B. wrote:
> I don't find it too difficult to imagine Rumpus to be Older
> than Scrooge. Why 
> would it be unacceptable?  Rumpus could be from an earlier
> marriage of Fergus 
> McDuck to Vera O'Drake.  I'm still not clear how Rumpus got
> the surname "McFowl" 
> though.

Easy...his mother remarried after her divorce with Fergus.  Her
second husband was named McFowl, so she and her son took that
name.  Not that unusual.


> Then, lets not forget Scrooge's *a-hem* "grand-daughter"
> Dickie Duck. :-)


I don't trust myself to comment on that topic.  *wanders off,
giggling*


Katie Sullivan
http://www.sullivanet.com/

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