Frightened about agent returning, did a bunk

Usage examples of scarpered.

And then there was a lot of brouhaha, if you remember, because a fortnight after the engagement our mama upped and scarpered with her hairdresser.

Most of the noble types just never showed up, and Monmouth scarpered, did a bunk, headed for the border, the way the Stuarts always did.

I went to bed, yes, and I woke up in bed to find an unknown young woman, who I later discovered was one of your clients, going through my clothes--a young woman who scarpered with the contents of my wallet too fast for me to be able to find out how she got in or why she was in our bedroom.