New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-23
Il STORY or THE HOUSE or AIRLIE.
From, Inc L9naon Iolcaraph.

From, The Londoa Io,cgraph.
curious story IS told IN connection with the
bonnie house of AlrIe.' On the evening OF
August 10. 1919. a young Engl,hman was ON his
WAY 10 the Iuchau. a shooting lodge belonging 10
tine family whose mUch-rrSpettcd head died last
~uuJuy week 1T Denver in Colorado. The sudden
and premature death oi Lord Alrie Is all the more
lamrujaplc because IL deprive, IN" county OF n
laIsurr of pcruap, the most enlightened ana popu-
lar Landlord WITHIN It's coulhe~ whose loss VIII DE
severely lelt by all 10 whom the best interests OF
scottish agriculture are dear. On tue 18TH of
August. 1919 he had not as yet succeeded TO the
highest title of his aucrut house, but MS lathcG,
Inc ninth Earl was at tuat moment lyIng upon ms
death bed IN London. As the Young EuglisnIuau 10
whom We haze JUS, d.laGri WAS pursuing ms way
ON pouy-buck, with stliwuri mounted Highland
man Tor his guide. across the Mild ForiarshIre
moor. uarAue>, mad ia.lrn upon the scene Tor Two
hour, or more. IL va, hall past IN the evening
when the welcome ] gifts ISSUING from the windows
of the Iulchan met uI, eager gaze. and slmulta-
urou-ly Il faint swell of music ~inOte suddenly
il,,.p =, q, ear Ii seemed to him u though brass
band va, playing un the io" ridge 81 ground be-
youu the shooting lodge IN front OF nun, ANA the
sound. now mrliOwri 10y distance, and now waited
by the utiul wind IN iouatr accents across the
moor bad ia It 8omrthiug oil an eeic ana uhtdIthtN
character AstOul,ucd aL such an unaccoulJdble
occurrence IN spot where the luchan was the
Only house within many miles, aud where brachen,
br,,yu heath and uort,, stretched far ana wide
upJu every side of INN, the EugI>hm IN called the
attention of ms guide 10 the strange burst OF music
which he had heard Mutterug that such sounds
" re no Cluuy, AMI processing mat 10 hilh lii'4
were iuaudlulr. the stout llighiauduan urged ms
pony forward with SuCu speed rs vas lcll III the
pu,r hcrstIe' after a tIyc-dnd-twtnty mile ride.
and soon aftetwIrJ the two companions gladly
drew rem lt the bospltabIe door of the lodge.
I.pou descending nom his pony, the Eugil>hman
learnt that bus freud aud host, Lord ONlNy-ior
,arh was then has titlr-had been suddenly sum
lunued 90 London on account OF his fathers dan.
g,rou, Illness. After dlsPatcIlug supper with an
annette to which his long ride lent pccGlIar zcSt.
tie stranger narrated the bizarre fancy which his
mind had created as lac III aglncd, out Of nothing;
but hc was interrupted by one OF his icllow-gueNtS,
who. like nIs hest and himself. were oxford men,
with the remark, fear the sound you have heard
hur, no guou, for there Is an ancient legend that
when the head of the house OF Alrie Is about To de-
a band of music plays outside his house n Scot
land On the following day, the ninth Earl OF
Alric brrathrd hs last I'm Ecgent-st., hard by the
church stationed in Laugham-piace: and the Ing
lI.hmau " no previously had never heard, 50 far as
hr was aware of the tradition, was totally at loss
10 r\plaln the mysterious sound that had fallen on
Ia, ear In many conversations ON the subject INTO
which he subsequently entered with the tenth Lord
Arlic. who has IuNt died IN Colorado, thai noble
man however always explained the PHENOMENON
Iy rcclting the strange legend OF his house with
which SIR Walter Scott was 50 familiar. ana 10
which the &" Wizard of the North alludes III hIS
thrilling Letters on Demonoosy and Nitchcralt.'