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Meantime Ned was timorously skulking about in that strange, unkempt, haggard world known as "behind the scenes. " He realized that it was to him a foreign world, and he bore himself with the alert suspiciousness of an alien. He kept an anxious lookout for the red jackets of the scene-shifters, and whenever he saw them bespangling the gray shadows of those dreary canvas vistas he dodged dexterously behind other "flats" and into deeper glooms.
"I've got to keep my eye peeled or some o' them fellers will ketch me sure! " he said to himself.