Eighty One

Then George came into the discussion. “You both know that from the first day Jenny’s girls referred to themselves as the Leper Colony.” He chuckled, shook his head and continued, “Well, about ten days ago one of the girls made a little sign that said ‘Leper Colony’ and hung it beside their door. Let’s see what’s going on now.”

With that he rose and led the way down the hall to the girls’ office. Brad and Kim were puzzled, but clearly George and Bill were amused by the whole thing. When they got close, they could see a large white board about two feet by three feet hanging on the wall beside the door.

George stopped to fill them in. “Well, shortly after the girl put up the sign, it was replaced with a larger one, lettered in red, that said ‘The Beauty Queens’. It’s been going on ever since at the rate of a change or two a day. Yesterday’s Beauty Queens sign was done on a steel panel that was painted and then treated with a very expensive material that sheds everything. And I mean every