It is best as it is.

Dead people tell no tales.

Of course they will search for the girl when they discover that she has eloped, but will believe she is cleverly eluding them or traveling about the country.

I have always had golden dreams of a fortune that would be in my grasp some day, and now, lo! my dream is about to be realized." While he was thus soliloquizing, old Adam, the grave digger, was standing silently in the road where they had set him down, then suddenly he turned abruptly--not toward his home--but as quickly as his aged limbs could carry him back over the ground the coach had just traversed, praying to Heaven to guide him to the spot where he had dug the lonely grave of the beautiful, hapless young bride of an hour..