Plain Tales from the Hills 14 - A Germ Destroyer

In which a zealous Private Secretary, known as Wonder, intersects curiously with an eccentric inventor carrying a revolutionary germ-destroying powder, leading to a memorable and riotous encounter with the Viceroy at Simla. The tale gently unfolds the peculiarities of authority and invention within the Indian Empire, as men of fat heads and little bolts play their parts beneath the shadow of greater powers.