What are the attitudes between Daru and Balducci toard each other? Is either a cruel or bad man?

In Camus' short story "The Guest," Balducci is a gendarme
and a member of the European colonial powers that be.  He tells Daru his
orders:

Those
are the orders.

...In wartime people do all kinds of
jobs.

...the orders exist and they concern you too. Things
are brewing, it appears. There is talk of a forthcoming revolt. We are mobilized, in a
way.

Since Daru is of
European decent and not a native Arab, Balducci presupposes that Daru will carry out his
orders and deliver the Arab to prison.

Daru tries to stay
out of the decision whatsoever.  He feels he is a schoolteacher and schoolteachers
should not be enlisted as marshals to deliver prisoners.  However, Daru fails to realize
that he is complicit in the colonial power because he works for their educational
system--an institution which wages cultural war on the Arabs as much as Balducci's armed
forces.

Daru dislikes Balducci, but he is afraid to disobey
his orders for fear of reprisal.  Balducci values "orders" above all, and sees Daru only
as a means to an end.  Despite Daru's protest, Balducci knows that the schoolteacher is
powerless to disobey him.

Daru feels Balducci is his guest
because he feeds and harbors him.  Balducci thinks Daru is his guest because he outranks
him.  Neither feel the Arabs are welcomed guests.  To the Arab, both colonists are
certainly unwelcomed guests of his native country.