He didn't look tyrannical.

So Abdul Ali opened on him, with all bow guns.
"I protest! I am a French subject.

I have been submitted to violence, outrage, indignity! I have been seized on foreign soil, and brought here by force against all international law! I shall claim exemplary damages! I demand apology and satisfaction!" Sir Louis raised his eyebrows and looked straight at Grim without even cracking a smile.
"Is this true, Major Grim ?" "Afraid it is, sir." "Scandalous! Perfectly scandalous! And were you a witness to all this ?" he asked, looking at me as if I might well be the cause of it all.
I admitted having seen the greater part of it.
"And you didn't protest?
What's the world coming to?
I see you've lost a little skin yourself.

I hope you've not been breaking bounds and fighting ?" "He is a most impertinent man!" said Abdul Ali, trying to take his cue, and glowering at me.

"He posed as a person interested in a school for El-Kerak, and afterward helped capture me by a trick!" The Administrator frowned.