Слово "wherefore". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

"Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought,

A shadow of awe and half-fearful anticipation—nobody knew wherefore, nor of what—had all at once fallen over the company.

Wherefore he sat, gorged, and gazed upon the world with after-dinner contempt. The meal had been an unexpected one.

That is to say, after the sixteenth (or so) success of the red, one would think that the seventeenth coup would inevitably fall upon the black; wherefore, novices would be apt to back the latter in the seventeenth round, and even to double or treble their stakes upon it—only, in the end, to lose.

Wherefore Al Hutchins, in possession of ten or twelve thousand dollars and of the promise of a pardon, could be depended upon to do the Warden’s bidding blind.