he was called out of his office for a meeting with Tremaine and Blackwell in the spring of 1938. When Campbell arrived, he discovered that two writers were already there, and as he listened, disbelieving, he was ordered to buy everything that they wrote. One was Burks. The other was a tall, imposing man of twenty-seven with red hair and skin so pale that it was almost transparent. It was L. Ron Hubbard.

