chest

Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

“Good!” said the gendarme, placing his knee on his chest; “this is the way you keep your word as a sailor!

In age he was rather younger than Douglas—forty-five at the most—a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a clean-shaved, prize-fighter face, thick, strong, black eyebrows, and a pair of masterful black eyes which might, even without the aid of his very capable hands, clear a way for him through a hostile crowd.

Lying across his chest was a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the triggers.