Actions and reactions - A Deal in Cotton

In which a gentleman of the Punjab Police retires to English leisure while his son, an Assistant-Commissioner in a far-flung African Protectorate, wrestles with trials of climate and native custom to cultivate cotton as a hopeful enterprise. Around the hearth of an old estate, tales unfold of arduous duty, the peculiar law of distant lands, and the curious alliances forged amid fever and the demands of empire.