In English, "supernatural" and "non-natural" were not merely two words; they conveyed two different meanings.
People Padma's age might not know that a famous theft took place in the 1970s. Johannes Vermeer had not left many surviving works behind. After all, he had not been famous when he died, few people had sought to buy his paintings, and he had been especially demanding about his pigments. For example, in Girl with a Pearl Earring, the girl's headband used lapis lazuli, an expensive pigment no poor painter could afford.
That meant he had not produced many works. Fortunately, that was the case, so when The Guitar Player was recovered, it had suffered no damage beyond a little dampness.
The painting had originally been displayed in a London museum, but it was later stolen. The police searched everywhere without finding it, but they warned every art dealer in London to call the police immediately if anyone came to sell the painting. It seemed they intended to cut off the thief's means of selling it this way.
Buyers of world-famous paintings were not limited to one city or even one country. Perhaps The Guitar Player had already been hanging on the wall of some old castle by the time the police warned London's art dealers. Two days passed without the police receiving a single report. At the same time, news leaked out, and the theft of the famous painting prompted public condemnation of the museum's negligence in managing its collection.
Then the police received a call from a woman. She said she had seen the news, but she was not calling to complain. She could provide a clue: if the police followed the path from the back door of the robbed museum and walked along a small pond to its end, they should