They had figured in a flamboyant elopement which had thrilled fashionable London some six months earlier.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
They had had one scent to follow, and, however blindly, they were about to attempt it, but were now thrown back upon two other lines-the one being the suggestion of an accident; the other of elopement.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
So the elopement had not killed him!
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker