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He didn't want to go on this vacation The ti aside so that he could be with his faht They needed so them all It would only be for teeks He could spare that much time for them As she had pointed out, the clinic would still be there when they returned That was true enough It was the possibility that some of his clients wouldn't still be there that troubled hi about the fact that he had lost a horse and foal because Alex wasn't available He wished he could say it wouldn't have made any difference if he had been there instead of another doctor The fact was; he wasn't there so he couldn't be sure All he was sure about was that he couldn't be two places fifteen miles away from each other at the same time

The client was furious because he felt Alex had made a poor choice on priorities Actually, he didn't have a choice because the other client had called first The fact that one was a goat and the other a race horse worth thousands of dollars was irrelevant A life was a life He had saved the goat and the horse had died He had gone over it a hundred times or more in his mind Maybe he should have had the other doctor take care of the goat while he shifted his attention to the horse He had oat had died, its oould have been irate Whatever the case, he couldn't go back and do it differently If the owner of the horse wanted to sue him, he would simply have to take more time from his schedule at the clinic and h He had plenty of tiet into more trouble