In Northern Forests (1911)
One of Phil's most redeeming qualities is his love for children, which is easily seen when the poor fellow is in a railroad coach being taken handcuffed to prison. In the seat next to him is a little child, Dotty. The train stops and the sheriff and his prisoner leave the car and the convicted man is next seen in stripes, working in the prison shoe shop--until he jumps out the prison window, plunges into the river, and starts his long swim to freedom. The alarm is sounded and soon a sheriff's posse of hardy riders is on the trail of the escaped prisoner. Dotty, the girl on the same train with the prisoner, starts out from her home to roam the fields and gets lost. When night falls, she finds the man sleeping quietly and she awakens him. After recovering from the shock, Phil hugs her to his bosom and pillows her head on his chest and soon she is asleep. Out of the stillness the howls of wolves are heard. The man clasps the child in his arms and makes a dash for safety. The wolves are coming nearer and nearer; his only refuge is a tree, up which he climbs with the child clinging to his back. Soon the wolves surround the tree and make frantic efforts to reach Phil and the child. The sheriff and his men find their man tenderly holding little Dotty in his arms, perched on the limb of a tree like patience on a monument. One of the horsemen takes the child, the prisoner is handcuffed and lifted in front of another rider and the cortege moves rapidly towards the town, where it is met by Dotty's anxious parents and the the joyous shouts of neighbors. When they are told how the child was saved from the wolves, they can only express their gratitude by sincerely grasping Phil's hand and promising to petition the governor for his pardon. Dotty places a kiss upon his brow, and he starts with his captors to his prison cell.
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