"Remember when he was ill and was quarantined at my townhouse to keep it from spreading to the rest of the Musketeers? He wanted to repay me by giving me something his mother had gifted him: a nicer version of this."

He reached under his shirt and retrieved a well-worn pendant with chipped enamel paint and most of the gold plating rubbed off. Minnie would likely recognize the crest of Clan McDuck featured prominently on it. He turned it over for her to see a strange series of engraved lines on it.

"Clan McDuck has a tradition: every member receives a pendant bearing the family crest on the front and their name written in the Ogham alphabet on the back. The one that Donald wears had the name 'Hortense' engraved in it, his own name being scratched into it beside hers."

His control slipped for a moment as he choked on his sister's name.

"Hortense Duck nee McDuck was my youngest sister. I haven't seen her or our sister Matilda in twenty years. I discovered a few months ago that Hortense was dead."

And if Minnie had any sort of intelligence, she'd put two and two together: A few months ago had been when Scrooge had taken ill.