Answer:
C “John Clark’s voice dropped almost to a whisper. ‘You’ll take the string of six horses to the ford at Plover’s Creek.’”
Explanation:
In this sentence he is whispering so this represents a secret.
His use of repetition in the excerpt stresses how serious he is about what he's saying and shows how strong is his plea for peaceful action.
Not really sure who douglass is.
"live" is the correct tense