Pa was in th ' Rangers , an ' he had this run-in with some Comanches " Anse 's eyes were suddenly bleak , and Drew remembered the few stark sentences the Texan had once spoken to explain his reason for being in the army a return to a frontier ranch to find nothing left , nothing he wanted to remember , after the Comanches had swept across the countryside .
Drew was remembering what the Texan had said for his reasons to be in the army .