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Within a month of the abandoned wedding at Orton, Mary Morini and George Macbean were married quietly at St James's Church, in Piccadilly, the Rev Basil Sinclair assisting, and Billy Grenfell, as full of his bluff humour as ever, acting as best man, while among the various handsome presents the happy pair received was an acceptable cheque from Mr Morgan-Mason for ten thousand pounds -- the sum he had offered to George for information as to the actual means by which his brother-in-law met with his death.
The millionaire was determined to place the assassins on their trial, and notwithstanding Morini's efforts to preserve secrecy regarding the affair, he actually gave information to the Chief of Police in Mentone. By some secret means, Angelo Borselli obtained knowledge of this fact, and on the very morning of George's wedding day he was found in a room in an obscure hotel in Brussels, quite dead, having committed suicide by swallowing some arsenical poison, probably the same as that used in the cognac which caused the unfortunate general's tragic end.