CHAPTER X.
_Perplexities_--_Our hunters plan their escape_--_Unexpected interruption_--_The tables turned_--_Crusoe mounts guard_--_The escape_.
Dick Varley sat before the fire ruminating.

We do not mean to assert that Dick had been previously eating grass.

By no means.

For several days past he had been mentally subsisting on the remarkable things that he heard and saw in the Pawnee village, and wondering how he was to get away without being scalped.

He was now chewing the cud of this intellectual fare.