Dubious Tribute to Marlene Krauss Scrawled on Facade

     What's this hotel coming to?  First the barbarians were disassembling the staircase for souvenirs and slashing paintings for sport, and now they've taken to desecrating the outside of the building.  Its a problem of poor -- or actually no -- management.  Can you imagine anyone daring to pull such a stunt on Stanley's watch?  He would have hunted the hapless miscreant down and stood over him while he scrubbed the offending graffiti off with a toothbrush.  I can assure you of that!
     The offending scrawl lies outside of Room 219, which is apparently used for wild parties these days.  It's the former home and office of the Cowboy Doc -- if anybody remembers him -- and more recently the Cowboy Artist had a show there, so apparently the spirit of frontier lawlessness still reigns in these parts.  But if you've got a cocklebur in your britches, partner how 'bout runnin' shareholder David Elder out of town on a rail, instead of taking it out on the poor unoffending building? 
     Speaking of minority shareholders, I'll betcha David Elder climbed up there and wrote that himself!  Probably he was trying to reclaim the spot from which his masked doppelganger dumped water on his head.  But what the "C" stand for?  Chump? Cretin? Maybe he thinks his dark mistress Marlene's last name starts with a "C".
     How am I supposed to know what's going on in his devious little peabrain?  The "C" also seems to have a superscript, but I can't read it from the street.  Maybe once it's enlarged that will clear up the mystery, but I rather doubt it! -- Ed Hamilton