You will excuse all leave taking.

You know that though the best of sons he is an odd fellow; and seeing that I had talked him into it, I struck while the iron was hot, and sent him off by the express at nine o'clock this morning, for fear that if I allowed any delay he would talk himself out of it." "Do you mean to say Kenelm is actually gone?
Good gracious." Sir Peter stole softly from the room, and summoning his valet, said, "I have sent Mr.Chillingly to London.

Pack up the clothes he is likely to want, so that he can have them sent at once, whenever he writes for them." And thus, by a judicious violation of truth on the part of his father, that exemplary truth-teller Kenelm Chillingly saved the honour of his house and his own reputation from the breath of scandal and the inquisition of the police.

He was not "THE MAN WHO HAD DISAPPEARED.".