It has saved me.

'For us men and for our salvation'-- those are the words--for my salvation, it is very strange.
Poor Paolo! If he knew to what he owed his life he would be pleased.

Who can believe such things?
Who would have believed this if I had told it?
And yet it is true." For some minutes still he gazed at the figure.

Then he shook himself as though to rouse his mind from a trance, and took up his tools.

He did not glance behind him again, and, for the time at least, his nervous dislike of the box in the corner seemed to have ceased.