The fact pleased The Shadow; but it was to prove another of the grim jests that fate was supplying tonight.

The gods had prepared their grim jest with painful attention to every detail needed to make it complete.

Perhaps because the narrow fragment seemed a worthless clue; possibly as a grim jest for the benefit of the person who found the body.

But even this grim jest could not shield him from a creeping sense of horror.

"Had he been a true physician, he would have known that this might be so, and that such grim jests are very dangerous," I said.

Major smiled at the grim jest.

Innocence, a grim jest for sixty years!

Life is a jest, true; but a grim jest.

A very grim jest on Sleed's part; one that to all appearances was completed.