Earlier this year, says Shivi, the men were dismissed after suspicions they had absconded with several hundred thousand dollars.

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Was it another artful touch to give the property a sense of history, a ready-made story, perhaps, about an impish guest who absconded with the bills?

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After hastily abdicating the Spanish throne in 1814, Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte absconded with the pearl to the United States, where it and he bided their time, lying low in Philadelphia.

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And Rovio said: go forth and be angry, for the pigs hath absconded with thy eggs and hidden themselves away in curiously arranged fortresses of stone and wood furnished with many glittering jewels and succulent hams.

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He absconded with the money.

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