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But Vavasor lodged there no longer . Mrs. Bunsby , who was also very confidential , -- and at her wits ' end because she could not learn the special business of the stranger who called , -- stated that Mr. George Vavasor left her house in a cab at ten o'clock that morning , having taken with him such luggage as he had packed , and having gone , `` she was afraid , for good , '' as Mrs. Bunsby expressed it . He had gone for good , and at the moment in which the policeman was making the inquiry in Cecil Street , was leaning over the side of an American steamer which had just got up her steam and weighed her anchor in the Mersey . He was on board at six o'clock , and it was not till the next day that the cabman was traced who had carried him to Euston Square Station . Of course , it was soon known that he had gone to America , but it was not thought worth while to take any further steps towards arresting him . Mr. Grey himself was decidedly opposed to any such attempt , declaring his opinion that his own evidence would be insufficient to obtain a conviction . The big men in Scotland Yard were loth to let the matter drop .