CHAPTER VII.
SERVICE RENDERED The news that Monck was down with the fever brought both the Colonel and Major Ralston early to the bungalow on the following morning.
They found Stella and the ever-faithful Peter in charge of both patients.

Tommy was better though weak.

Monck was in a high fever and delirious.
Stella was in the latter's room, for he would not suffer her out of his sight.

She alone seemed to have any power to control him, and Ralston noted the fact with astonishment.
"There's some magic about you," he observed in his blunt fashion.

"Are you going to take on this job?
It's no light one but you'll probably do it better than any one else." It was a tacit invitation, and Stella knowing how widespread was the sickness that infected the station, accepted it without demur.
"It rather looks as if it were my job, doesn't it ?" she said.