The Gardener's Cunning Wife

Lucas Cleeve was the pseudonym of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote (1868–1908), who was a novelist born in England, the author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895. Recorded in Who's Who as a traveller and linguist, she compiled a book of Indian folklore, Tales of the Sun, or, Folklore of Southern India, and a work entitled The English Baby in India and How to Rear it. However,  she was best known as a novelist.

The Gardener’s cunning Wife is a short story by Mrs. Howard Kingscote.

It revolves around a poor gardener and his wife. They both had to toil daily to make their living. But it is natural for humans to strive for more. And out of this desire, a sin was born, that would put a hard, but simple life of the gardener and his wife to an end. Was the crime, and what would be the punishment? Read and find out!