he had been told, when he started on this street called broadway, by enrico caruso the great opera singer, "see all this street. there's only one way you can get stopped in new york -- little girls. dolls. stay away from them," caruso said. as he said this, he couldn't move his hands very well because the guy with him had a lock around him. caruso was a man of such excesses that you couldn't leave him alone on a crowded street because he'd touch every woman that passed him. he thought it was all right. he thought they were all sopranos on the stage and he could do what he wanted. he was always getting arrested. in the middle of the case of one molesting, some woman would come racing down the aisle, shrieking, "he did it to me at the public library." he was always a man bewildered by law and order. runyon listened to this advice very well. he found a young woman 26 years his junior. the first thing he did was go with one. she was from juarez, mexico, and came up here. he had seen her when she was very young in juarez, and then she came up to new york and took up with him, and runyon left h