Did they come back in company?
The narrative does not say, and there are obscure points in that part of it, as in many other places.

However, Edgar Poe stated explicitly that Dirk Peters would be able to furnish information relating to the non-communicated chapters, and that he lived at Illinois.

I set out at once for Illinois; I arrived at Springfield; I inquired for this man, a half-breed Indian.

He lived in the hamlet of Vandalia; I went there, and met with a second disappointment.

He was not there, or rather, Mr.Jeorling, he was no longer there.