As he uttered these words, Jed, perhaps intentionally, let his glance rest on Percy Dixon, while the latter gazed at him open-mouthed.
"I believe it is Jed, after all, mother!" he ejaculated.
CHAPTER XII. PERCY DIXON IS BEWILDERED.
At the end of the first act Jed and George Osprey were called before the curtain. Jed had been instructed to bow his thanks, and did so. Percy watched his face eagerly, for this brought Jed within a few feet of him.
"Mother," he said, "if that boy isn't Jed, it is his twin brother."
"But, Percy," said his mother, who was a practical woman, "I never heard that the boy had a twin brother."
"Oh, pshaw! I meant that he is exactly like him."
"But this boy is Ralph Clinton. The bill says so."