Broncho BillyGuardian (1914)

Broncho Billy hears a child scream and rushes on the scene in time to prevent Jim Haley a big brute of a man from beating his little daughter Josie with a horse whip Later Haley and Pedro a halfbreed are caught rustling cattle and are given the customary treatment but not before Haley writes a note to Josie stating that the boys will take care of her The boys send Josie east to school and ten years later when she returns a young lady they all fall in love with her