Billy Budd | Chapters 15-18 Summary and Analysis

New Characters:
The Afterguardsman: a mysterious figure who tries to inveigle Billy into participating in a mutinous intrigue

Red Pepper: a forecastleman who asks Billy about the commotion in the forechains

The Armorer and the Captain of the Hold: two minor officers who begin to take note of Billy

Summary
A few days after the spilled soup incident, an even more troubling event occurs.

Billy is awakened from sleep by a touch and a “quick whisper,” by a shadowed person whom Billy cannot discern. He is instructed to go to the...



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