The Sheriff's Secret is a 1931 American Western film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Jack Perrin, Dorothy Bauer and Fred Hargreaves.
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.