He has slipped away.

I suppose that Grey as usual talked too freely.

But how the deuce does it concern you?
I see that it does." Penhallow laughed.

"He was my barber." "And mine," said Woodburn.

"If you have missed him, Jim, for a few days, I have missed him for three years and more." Then both men laughed heartily at their inequality of loss.
"I cannot understand why this fellow ran away.