Horace Heffren

Stidger got off at Salem which was the wrong stop - he should have waited to get off in the town of Orleans which was 21 miles further down the track.

While waiting for the next train he meets a Sam Drom that noticed his “butternut” colored suit. Stidger identifies Drom as a member of the Sons of Liberty, and knows enough about the order to trick Drom into thinking he was a member too.

Drom asks Stidger if he is there to see Horace Heffren who is the Grand Commander of the Order of Sons of Liberty for the State of Indiana in which Stidger replies he where he was going, but he did not know who Hefferen was. Drom takes Stidger to meet Heffren who is expecting a member of the order from Kentucky. After Stidger tells Hefferen that he is looking to go to the French Link Springs to meet with Dr. Bowles.

After his conversations Stidger gets back on the train and arrives in Orleans.

On his way to meet with Dr. Bowles, Stidger stops in Salem to talk with the Grand Commander Heffren. Stidger learns of an emergency meeting of the Sons of Liberty being called June fourteenth, when the next should not have been till October twenty second. Heffren reported the number of members in Indiana was between seventy five and eighty thousand men.