1872-1873 Lord Napier's care for the soldier -- Negotiations with Sher Ali renewed--Sher Ali's demands Lord Napier of Murchiston, the Governor of Madras, had been summoned to Calcutta to act as Viceroy until Lord Northbrook, Lord Mayo's successor, should arrive.

He seemed interested in what I had to tell him about Lushai, and Lord Napier of Magd[=a]la spoke in laudatory terms of the manner in which the expedition had been carried out.
I reached Simla on the 1st of April, the twentieth anniversary of my arrival in India.

I found my wife, with the two children, settled in Snowdon,[1] a house I had recently purchased.

She had had much trouble in my absence, having been at death's door herself, and having very nearly lost our little son at Umballa three weeks after his birth from a Native wet-nurse having tried to kill him.

The English nurse's suspicions had been aroused by one day finding a live coal in the cradle, but she did not mention this discovery at the time for fear of frightening my wife; but she determined to watch.