Tomaso was to bring back the pliers, hammer, and whatever other tools they had taken, but after that they would have to keep off.
He would tell Tomaso so very plainly.

The prejudices of the Rolling R were well enough known to need no explanation, surely.
So Johnny ate a hurried breakfast, caught his fresh horse out of the pasture, and rode off to do in one day enough work to atone for the two he had filched from the Rolling R.He covered a good deal of ground, so far as that went.

He rode to the very spot where fifteen Rolling R horses had been driven through the fence and across the border, but since his thoughts were given to the fine art of repairing a somewhat battered airplane, he did not observe where the staples had been pulled from three posts, the wires laid flat and weighted down with rocks, so that the horses and several horsemen could pass, and the wires afterward fastened in place with new staples.

It is true that the signs were not glaring, yet he might have noticed that the wires there were nailed too high on the posts.

And if he had noticed that, he could not have failed to see where the old staples had been drawn and new ones substituted.