Page followed.
"The dummy," explained Darrin briefly.
Every midshipman at Annapolis, doubtless, is familiar with the dummy.

Not so many, probably, are familiar with the doughface, which, at the time this is written, was a new importation.
Swiftly Dave and Page worked.

First they turned down the clothing, after having hurriedly made up the cot.

Now, from among the garments hanging on the wall nearby the two midshipmen took down the garments that normally lay under others.

With these they rigged up a figure not unlike that of a human being.