The doctor goes to his room to change into hospital scrubs. He does not hurry. Fifteen minutes after the Jeep pulled into the driveway, the doctor is backing it away from his house. He drives toward the barn. He is met at the barn door by a spotted cat.
Barn cats keep rats away from nearby engines.
He opens the steel doors at the barn's rear and then hops on a four-wheeler, which pulls a rig trailer. He eases the four-wheeler and trailer, in reverse, out the back door. Dr. Beegle had it all planned out 15 years ago. In medical school, he worked nights on a research project and spent days in flight school. Then, for 10 years, he commuted by bicycle from his Buckhead home to his plastic surgery office.