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What
Captain
Len
Guy
said
was
true
;
but
,
in
common
with
all
the
readers
of
the
romance
,
I
had
taken
this
declaration
for
an
artifice
of
the
novelist
.
My
notion
was
that
,
as
he
either
could
not
or
dared
not
wind
up
so
extraordinary
a
work
of
imagination
,
Poe
had
given
it
to
be
understood
that
he
had
not
received
the
last
three
chapters
from
Arthur
Pym
,
whose
life
had
ended
under
sudden
and
deplorable
circumstances
which
Poe
did
not
make
known
.
“
Then
,
”
continued
the
captain
,
“
Edgar
Poe
being
absent
,
Arthur
Pym
being
dead
,
I
had
only
one
thing
to
do
;
to
find
the
man
who
had
been
the
fellow
-
traveller
of
Arthur
Pym
,
that
Dirk
Peters
who
had
followed
him
to
the
very
verge
of
the
high
latitudes
,
and
whence
they
had
both
returned
—
how
?
This
is
not
known
.
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
.
Some
years
before
this
Dirk
Peters
had
left
Illinois
,
and
even
the
United
States
,
to
go
—
nobody
knows
where
.
But
I
have
talked
,
at
Vandalia
with
people
who
had
known
him
,
with
whom
he
lived
,
to
whom
he
related
his
adventures
,
but
did
not
explain
the
final
issue
.
Of
that
he
alone
holds
the
secret
.
”
What
!
This
Dirk
Peters
had
really
existed
?
He
still
lived
?
I
was
on
the
point
of
letting
myself
be
carried
away
by
the
statements
of
the
captain
of
the
Halbrane
!
Yes
,
another
moment
,
and
,
in
my
turn
,
I
should
have
made
a
fool
of
myself
.
This
poor
mad
fellow
imagined
that
he
had
gone
to
Illinois
and
seen
people
at
Vandalia
who
had
known
Dirk
Peters
,
and
that
the
latter
had
disappeared
.
No
wonder
,
since
he
had
never
existed
,
save
in
the
brain
of
the
novelist
!
Nevertheless
I
did
not
want
to
vex
Len
Guy
,
and
perhaps
drive
him
still
more
mad
.
Accordingly
I
appeared
entirely
convinced
that
he
was
speaking
words
of
sober
seriousness
,
even
when
he
added
,
—
“
You
are
aware
that
in
the
narrative
mention
is
made
by
the
captain
of
the
schooner
on
which
Arthur
Pym
had
embarked
,
of
a
bottle
containing
a
sealed
letter
,
which
was
deposited
at
the
foot
of
one
of
the
Kerguelen
peaks
?
”
“
Yes
,
I
recall
the
incident
.
”
“
Well
,
then
,
in
one
of
my
latest
voyages
I
sought
for
the
place
where
that
bottle
ought
to
be
.
I
found
it
and
the
letter
also
.
That
letter
stated
that
the
captain
and
Arthur
Pym
intended
to
make
every
effort
to
reach
the
uttermost
limits
of
the
Antarctic
Sea
!
”
“
You
found
that
bottle
?
”
