L'episodi de Cardiff Hill caigué immediatament en la insignificancia. Els lladres foren oblidats, hom ensella cavalls, hom aparella bots, hom ordena que el vaporet sortís, i, abans que l'esglai hagués envellit de mitja hora, dos cents homes s'escampaven, per la carretera i el riu, cap a la cova.
The Cardiff Hill episode sank into instant insignificance, the burglars were forgotten, horses were saddled, skiffs were manned, the ferryboat ordered out, and before the horror was half an hour old, two hundred men were pouring down highroad and river toward the cave.