 How did Grannie Annie save the workers?
DOUBLE TROUBLE by CARL JACOBI Grannie Annie, that waspish science-fiction writer, was in a jam again. What with red-spot fever, talking cockatoos and flagpole trees, I was running in circles—especially since Grannie became twins every now and then. Grannie Annie strode in the lead, her absurd long-skirted black dress looking as out of place in this desert as the trees. But Miss Flowers, known to her friends as Grannie Annie, had always been mildly crazy. Blood-and-thunder as these books are, however, they have one redeeming feature—authenticity of background. Grannie Annie was the original research digger-upper, and when she laid the setting of a yarn on a star of the sixth magnitude, only a transportation-velocity of less than light could prevent her from visiting her "stage" in person. He was an old prospector Grannie had met, and he had become so attached to the authoress he now followed her wherever she went. Then it was found that this ore, Acoustix, revitalized their sounding apparatus, and the rush was on." So now here we were at the outer reaches of the Baldric, four travelers on foot with only the barest necessities in the way of equipment and supplies. And then all at once Grannie stopped again, this time at the top of a high ridge. Behind her strode a grizzled Earth man in a flop-brimmed hat, another Earth man, and a Martian. The duplicate of myself was talking to the duplicate of Grannie Annie, and she was replying in the most natural way. As that dot continued to move across the heavens in a single direction, I called Grannie's attention to it. Five minutes later Grannie was shaking his hand vigorously and mumbling introductions. Apparently these adjustments moved planes or fins on the kite and accounted for the car's ability to move in any direction. "We pay our men high wages and give them excellent living conditions with a vacation on Callisto every year. "But surely you must have some idea of where they go," Grannie said. Grannie Annie remained standing. Failure to produce during a period of thirty days or more, and you lose all rights." Grannie Annie walked across to it and began to study its markings. Grannie seized a light weight carry-case and began dropping articles into it. A pontocated glass lens, three or four Wellington radite bulbs, each with a spectroscopic filament, a small dynamo that would operate on a kite windlass, and a quantity of wire and other items.
 She discovered that ultraviolet could reverse the effects on them and used it to cure them.
 She found the location they all went to and helped them navigate back.  She removed the lens from the barracks that was making them sick.  She pretended to contract the fever and fooled Antler Park.  She discovered that ultraviolet could reverse the effects on them and used it to cure them.