The Sheriff's Secret is a 1931 American Western film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Jack Perrin, Dorothy Bauer and Fred Hargreaves.
[1] Outlaw Rawlins is accompanied by a child (Bill) and avoids a sheriff's posse by heading into a desert.
The boy becomes ill, causing Rawlins to take a doctor from town into the desert to treat him.
With the assistance of a girl (Alice), Rawlins turns himself in to the sheriff.
Bill and Alice promise to wait for Rawlins to complete his sentence.