There is a padlock and chain.
I will give you the key, so you can go off whenever you like without bothering to come up to the house.

If you just call in at the stable as you ride by, one of the boys will go down with you and take your horse, and put him up till you come back again." "That will do capitally," Vincent replied.

"It is some time since I was on the water, and I seem to have a fancy for a change at present.

One is sick of riding into Richmond and hearing nothing but politics talked of.
Don't be alarmed if you hear at any time that the boat has not come back at night, for if tide and wind are unfavorable at any time, I might stop at Cumberland for the night." "I have often had to do that," Furniss said.

"Besides, if you took it away for a week I don't suppose anyone would notice it; for no one goes down to the boathouse unless to get the boat ready for a trip." The next day Vincent rode over to his friend's plantation, sending Dan off an hour beforehand to bale out the boat and get the masts and sails into her from the boathouse.