He saw it also stated--and repeated--that these were the grounds for the man's disappearance.

It was quite credible that the man should disappear, or endeavor to disappear, under such a cloud of difficulties.

It did not require that he and his violence should be adduced as an extra cause.
Indeed, had the man been minded to vanish before the encounter, he might in all human probability have been deterred by the circumstances of the quarrel.

It gave no extra reason for his disappearance, and could in no wise be counted with it were he to tell the whole story, in Scotland Yard.

He had been grossly misused on the occasion, and had escaped from such misusage by the only means in his power.