Possible Clues:

• Married secretly
• Ran away to marry
• Got the wrong end of the stick over the editor, and made off with it
• Went off back to Poland with the editor
• Took off (with)
• Got hooked quickly
• The Spanish work the editor ran off
• From Poland he came back to the editor and ran away
• Made off (with)
• Had an unannounced merger