The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-27

four trusty men of his called at the house
of Luroy, and were admitted by him. Selling
a good opportunity they gagged, blind-folded,
and bound him hand and foot, and lifting him
into a carriage, conveyed him to the house where
the marriage to take place. What was his
horror and astonishment when he was placed
in a chair and the bandage removed, to see be-
fore him Nelly Edgerly, attired bride, and
clasping the hand of the stranger; the four sail
ors standing by as witnesses, and clergyman
in the act of performing the marriage ceremonyl
He struggled violently and strove to make an
cutlery, but the parties smiled, and he strove<sa
vain He was compelled to look and listen to
the rites which forever ruined his merciless and
mercenary hopes and which gave his prosecuted
niece to another than the man to whom he had
thought to sacrifice her.
1t was terrible spectacle to him but other
torments were in store and at hand for him.
The bride and the clergyman retired together,
the latter, according to previous agreement,
accompanying Mrs. Stanley on board the ship
Walter Stanley now advanced and made him.
self known to the enraged and despairing, but
powerless despot Of his helpless childhood
"Tobias Luroy, look well at me! see you
do not know me. 1 am Walter Stanley-the
poor, scourged, terrified and feeble boy whom
after years of atrocious cruelty, you sent forth
you, grown to manhood, and blessed by rank,
riches, and womans love. He has lived to foil
your hearts most cherished plan. Lived to
snatch another victim from your hateful grasp
and now to administer to you bodily punish
such as you so often inflicted upon him, in cow
ardly and bloody secrecy. Look up, around
these walls 20 he added, pointing to the frightfu
pictures which depicted the old atrocities Of
Luroy, and which had been hung there for the
occasion; "don't you recognize yourself and me
in each of them? Are they not forcibly depict
ed? Your heart answers, yes But here is that
which will give force to the delineation. Men.
strip the fend at once, and fog him soundly;
for it is my wedding nightv'
The four sailors did his stern bidding with a
will. Duroy was stripped and scourged with q
ships cat in such prolonged and emphatic
manner as caused him to remember to the end
of miserable existence, the kindred treatment
he had inflicted upon the orphan boy.
"The hour of vengeance is over now" said
Stanley, to the writhing knave, " and am sat-
isfed. Your disgrace is complete. have saved
an angel from your pitiless avarice, and am
fully revenged. We leave this place forever
Tobias Luroy, and may this hour never fads
from your memory. Men, take him home to his
vacant den again.
| The justly punished wretch was borne to his
dwelling accordingly. The pictures, unique
memorials of childhood's days-were then borne
aboard the ship, where wedding collation.
being enjoyed by the crew. The clergyman took
his leave, and within an hour the gallant craft,
her white wings spread to a propitious breeze,
was bounding fast and far over the dancing
waters Walter Stanley was revenged at last;
nor did the terribly copfounded spirit of Tobias
Throw evar lead him to seek from law that re-