..!"Tiny figures silhouetted against the cloudy horizon he next day, Tom and Casy continue on to Uncle John""s farm where everyone in the extended Joad family is at breakfast, gathered to prepare for a trip westward to California.Campbell, Jr.(with pen-name pseudonym Don A.Stuart).The novella was first published in August 1938, in the popular US sci-fi magazineAstounding Science Fiction.]The two lead roles, Dr.Vitus Werdegast and Poelzig, are characters who experienced bad blood between them due to past betrayals and murder.During a "last stand" against the fearsome creature, Girion had attempted to slay it using Black Arrows fired from a mounted windlance crossbow.